The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-10-08
T!LLMAN CHILDREN IN COURT.
Mrs. Dugas to Show Cause Why She
Should Not Give Them up.

| Senator B. +. 1lEman are again 10
figure in the supreme court. An
order was issued this morning by
| Chief Justice Gary directing Mrs.
Lucv Dugas, the mother OF the little
girls and the divorced wife OF B. r.
/ Tillman, Jr., to produce Douschka
| Pickens Tillman and Lucy Frances
| Tillman, the two little gi-ls. before
| the supreme court in Columbia on
November % and show cause, if she
can, why the custody o. the said
children should not be taken from
her and why they should not be
placed in the custody of those who
may be more successful in training
them and in teaching them the duty
of obedience to lawful authority
The following is the order in part:
1T having been made to appear to
the court that its order herein dated
and filed the. day Off,, 1914,
requiring the children, Douschka
and Lucy Frances Tillman, to spend
the months of July and August with
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
R. Tillman, has not been obeyed, and
that, Notwithstanding the warning
given by the chief justice by letter
addressed to counsel for Mrs. Lucy
Dugas, the mother and custodian Of
said children, that the court would
not permit its order to be set at
naught by said children, they have
persisted in their disobedience there
to and have failed and refused to do
as.herein required, and their mother
having confessed inability to compel
obedience on their part to the order
of the court
Order to Be Served.
A copy of the order will be served
on Senator Tillman, who will have
the right to introduce evidence and
examine witnesses who may testify
on behalf of Mrs. Dugas.
The two little Tillman children
have been before the court on numer-
Gus occasions in the various fights
which have been staged between
Senator Tillnlan and his daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Lucy Dugas, the mother
of the little girls, for their custody.
tho children
were declared to be in the custody
of the supreme court, but the time
was divided between their father
and mother. They were to spend
the months of July and August with
their father, B. R. Tillman, Jr., part
of the Christmas holidays and one
| week in the spring. He was to have
the right to see them every other
Saturday when they were with their
mother. The rest of the time the
! little girls were to be with their
| mother, Mrs. Dugas.
When young Mr.. Tillman secured
a position as secretary to a govern
ment board in Alaska the time Of the
little children. which was to have
been spent with him, was to be spent
with his father and mother. their
grandparents, Senator and Mrs. Till
man. An order to this effect was
issued by the court, but it has been
rumored several times from Trenton
and Edgefeld that the little girls
would not visit their grandparents,
and the order issued by the supreme
court this morning viii revive public
interest in the case.
| Text of Gary's Order.
The State of South Carolina,
In the supreme court.
lex parte B. R. Tillman, Jr., in re
Dousclka P. Tillman and Sarah S.
| Tillman.
"It having been made to appear
to the court that its order herein,
dated and filed the - day of -,
1914, requiring the children, Dousch-
ka and Lucy Frances Tillman, to
spend the months of July and Au-
gust with their grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. B. R. Tillman, has not been
obeyed, and that, notwithstanding
warning given by the chief justice by
letter addressed to counsel for Mrs.
Lucy Dugas, the mother and custo-
dian of said children, that the court
would not permit its order to he set
at naught by said children, they have
persisted in their disobedience there
to, and have failed and refused to
do as therein required, and their
mother having confessed her inabili-
ty to compel, obedience on their part
10 the order of the court:
1t is, therefore, ordered that Mrs.
Lucy Dugas, the mother and custo-
dian of said children, do produce
them before the supreme court in
the supreme court room at Columbia,
S. c.. on Monday, the 23rd day of