The Detroit times., 1914-04-04
|SKELETONBARED
/ IN COURT FIGHT
VERYOUNGBABE
Mrs. jos. Minnick Says She's
Not Mother Of Child Husband
Seeks to Recover
DECEIVED PHYSICIAN
AT TIME OF BIRTH
Says She Has Given Tot to Real
Parent. Alleged Affinity Of
Spouse

Who is the mother Of velma Agatha
Minnick.. aged 20 months
Where II velma Agatha Minnicky
And where IL Margaret Caldwell.
pretty young woman VINO lived In the
Minnicks' home?
These three questions came up IN
the court OF domestic relations Satur-
day. and an effort to answer them has
uncovered one OF the most unusual
complications in the history Of the
court.
Docs Joseph Minnick. STANDARD ON
salesman, OF No. 799 Fourteenth-ave.,
know who 10 the mother of his childy
This 10 another question that awaits
an answer, and Judge Lacy declared
from the bench as the tangled STORY
started to unroll that for the nrI}
time In his experience q question had
been brought up by the father as "a
who w4a the mother OF his child.
Z "A petition to force relatives OF Mr.
4inn1ok to disclose her whereaboukl
And 00@whereabO of the child Waa
brought into the court and laid beforG
Judge Lacy. "A divorce suit 10 pon0
ing, brought BY Minnick and chargin1
cruelty, ana his attorney claimed thGj
the child had been spirited away ~
that bis client WAS very anxioNe 4
get her hack. s.
Judee Lacy vap aboUt - IN ~ ;fIl(
Sltne6blg scdlJ61 to force Z di6cJo
wheh Attorney Joseph A. Morn
exploded q bomb by declaring thu -
child 10 Minnick's, but not MrBs Mn
hicks.
whose child is it, asked Judgl
THE child OF Margaret Caldwoll.' 7
answered Moynihan. 4:
A remarkaklat situation w. MthAr
disclQ4SA ;bS the Attorney and M ~
up bk ~ testimony Of Mr.. ro
HI. M Ehopek Of No. 443 IN 4yo.
brother Nid sister-in,law Of ! Nm
nick. "a - n NJ
Acc0sl slaSe % their story 1stuarst
Caldwell iksw the Minpieks IA Ons'
WAY, Mich. The witnessee eNnRo thai
Minnick betrayed the kiSf% IA then
AdmtttS6 the fact to Nm MlnntCk
She did not forgive her hunbon1 at the
time. but she alt great nv for the
yirLT she Buggeated thnk th0y move
10 Qetrpft md take ~ 41ong a
! maid This was done t ~ child
was hem here. i
Acooeding to Mrs. Minpa6 = pAysi.
clan Wps Ualled On the p16he d the
birth n. the Minnick ho1n1 6nd was
led 10 sbolieye that the un6>Hor Wa
Mrs. MjmhfcE. e. The EIfQ tincate
was Alled In with the naJlto q vSlma
AgathA- Afinntck, and all roeQtoe OF the
birth show Mrs. Mihnick @ tko moth.
~.
The Caldxsll girl conttn66d to .livs
With the Minnicks and To- >hiid was
III the home. f1 = =
The Minnlcks. soon dtnoDxoed, how.
syer. and Mrs. Minnick Claims the
trouble arose over Minnyc1Ee 6cutinued
lnfatuation for the girls A-6epnsatio
followed, and then q s61E (6E divorce.
In the suit Minnick clQlIn66 his wife
thfeAtened TO shoot hl& sr1n6. : was
cruel to him In other tn6 &1Wifh the
child she went to the EG6oore TO live.
This was q short 4 tlt no. She
s&id Margaret CaldwG0 G0<nDDeared the
next day and asked c0yE1Uf child. It
was given her and child and mother
have disappeared.
Minuick, declaring the. child is
his wife's, attemptedY % search the
Hooper house but Va not allowed to
enter. He then hire4&pF1vate detec.
tlves, two OF whom W<nt 70 the house
they were ~ men. and a
third followed. statinG. that ne was
Coroner Burgess and was investigat-
Ing q suicide alleeoG 70 have taken
place in the neight&fhood. = Hooper
knew Burgess, and mar allowing the
man to enter teleD11aSd the police
and the fake cor0uot was arrested,
and with him anothGr or the private
detectives" Both nfU now awaiting
trial In the police G6utt. charged with
an o1cor.
1T is not the ch1ld he wants." said
Mrs. Minnick. :" q not to recover
followed me about, What he wants Is
to find the poor tirl again. II don't
know where she W snd the Hoopers
do not know. Sho came to the Hoop
ers the first OF ~ week and gave
her her child took II away and
did not say whet ~ was going"
The case was 9eponed two weeks
and In the mQ tIme investigators
for the domestic DuPt will probe the
matter and the Vuocian. the private
Mrs fA6ick and others
will be ordered 1ppear and explain
the matter. viii he asked 10
search for the4 Az long as Min
nick claims Ghild IL his end his
wife's the girl nAs IN the light OF q
kidnaper and be held on that
charge.