Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-30

child Is not a ward of this court and
should not be treated as SUCH
My order is that the child be re
leased from the custody OF Mary Nc
AIIister and that is all there is to do.
/ announced the court.
| where is Mary McAllister and
where is the girI?" inquired Attorney
Weld
That is for you to find out" the
court answered. Go into circuit court
with your investigation. This court is
through with the matter"
This leaves the matter in no better
shape for the mother than before. AL
though Judge Olmsted has decided on
two writs OF habeas corpus the moth
er should have the child, she does not
have the girls custody and wont un-
less Mary McAllister or the girl can
be located. Whether. in view of the
situation. Judge Olmsted will now dis
miss the contempt proceedings, is a
matter OF conjecture.
Weld Makes Statement.
Attorney Weld made the following
statement TO an Argus reporter in re-
ference to the case: The circuit
court. after a full hearing. in a habeas
corpus proceeding, placed the child,
Alice Lyness. IN the custody of its
mother on the ground that the mother
was entitled to have the child, was a
ri person TO have her. and the best in
terests of the child would be served
by being in her mothers care. I'm
mediately afterward. by one of the
aunts a petition was filed in the county
court, setting up exactly the contrary
of everything the circuit court had
found. and the child was arrested and
taken away from her mother and held
by the sheriff under a warrant based
on the fraudulent petition in the county
court.
Judge Olmsted found that the coun-
~ court had been imposed upon and
was without jurisdiction. and by a sec
ond writ OF habeas corpus. again placed
the child in the custody of its mother.
Within three minutes a deputy
sheriff seized the child again under a
second writ issued in the same county
court proceeding. took her from the
custody OF her mother and before the
county judge, who entered an order
placing the child in the custody of
Mary McAllister. whoever she may
be, who seems 20 have been conven-
ieltly present in court at the time.
CWe do not know who Mary McAllister
is and cannot find outD II was then
announced that the judge had gone
fishing and would return the following
week. He did return yesterday. This
morning on motion OF counsel for the
petitioner who signed the fraudulent
petition he dismissed the proceeding.
The mother of the child. who has
been patiently waiting 10 have her
child restored TO her was in court Z
and as her attorney I asked the court /.
as part Of any action taken that the
child be brought into court and re-
stored to its mother from whom II had .
been taken under colcr OF authority OF
that court; that request was refused. /
then asked his honor, Judge Bell. !
to state where the child was and who
and where Mary McAllister was. which /
was refused also. with what seemed /
unnecessary vehemence on the part of /,
the Judge. The net result is that the
child has been taken away from its .
mother and is now being concealed. {
the writ Of habeas corpus is being de- 4
fed and the unfortunate victim OF this .
situation, the mother Of the child, Is 1
told to find her offspring If she can. |
all in the name OF the law and judicial [
authority. Comment is unnecessary" !