Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-22
LEGAL BATTLE FOR
HERBERT CLARK
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ly between them and Miss Wendell
Then they moved to a home across
the street from The Little Cottage
Hospital. and the child was kept there
until July , 1909, when Miss, Wendell
took it from their home. They were
seeking at that time to adopt the
child, and through adoption and fear
ing complications she took the child
from them after they had had some
controversy in regard to il, and she
offered to pay them for TIE keeDing
Of it for the period Of time. They
refused to receive pay, although it
was rendered to them and later it
was deposited in the bank to their
credit and when the child was gone.
they took the money.
Came to Msndan.
The child next came to Mandan and
visited its parents for two or three
| weeks. Whether they had visited the
child before that | am not now GER
tain, but l think they did. They visit.
ed MandaIi, stopping with Sides for
a period Of two weeks. Then from
there Miss Wendell took it again into
her charge, and ! think that it was
taken to a lady by the name of Mrs.
Waterbury, a trained nurse. who had
been in The same school with Miss
Wendell when they were younger, and
she trusted it to her are for a period
Of time.
OFF to Europe.
Miss Wendells brother, who is
blind and had been seeking relief in
many places, decided to go to Europe
and consult a specialist in London
and Miss Wendell accompanied him.
When she informed Miss Waterbury
that she was going away for a period
of time, Miss Waterbury objected to
taking the responsibility of caring for
the little fellow until she returned,
so at the last moment, with the CON
sent Of the parents Of the child, she
took the child with her on the trip
to Europe. They made the trip, con-.
suited the specialist and again return
ed to this country. From there he
went to the home Of another of her
friends, who had been in training
school with her, and on WON she
thought she could rely and depend
and she left the little boy with them.
Articles Of Adoption.
She had learned, after taking him
away from the Reynolds, that they
had procured articles of adoption by
representing to the mayor of Maquo-
keta that the child was either an
abandoned child, or his parents dead,
Or some form that the statute re-
quires there, not by any order of
court but simply a contract, which
our state gives . right to execute I'M
der these conditions, and this con-
tract was executed following the time
she had taken the child to M%aQuoketa.
So learning Of this, she kept him
from the reach of the Reynolds peo-
pie. She took him to Kansas City,
and Mrs. Berry took care of him for
a period OF six or seven months in her
home With her three little boys. She
decided to change her business and
SIZE went to Chicago and went into a
school FOR a period of time and it was
necessary for her to have Miss Wen
dell take the child and place him
somewhere else.
Lived In Chicago.
Mrs. Berry advised her that she
knew Of people who were qualified to
take care Of him, two maiden ladies'. or
bachelor ladies', one Of them keeping
house, and ore working in Marshall
Field, in Chicago, and so she left
him with them and they kept him for
Z period of time, and one, I think, was
taken sick and had to quit her occu-
patton, so it became necessary for
them to break up their home, and
then he was taken from there into
The home Of two other young ladies
who gave him proper care for a per
iod Of several weeks in Chicago.
Miss Wendell visited that place.
looking after his welfare, and paying
them the money that was supplied
her by the parents each time. Every
che OF these people will show by
their dispositions that they received
compensation good and ample for the
care OF the child; that he was given
the best of care, and that his health
a1d condition was Of the very best.
Gets Another Home.
Miss Wendell, in the meantime, had
teen to Cedar Rapids, and found a
lady, Mrs. Palmer, her husband being
a distant relative of the little boy,
ard she talked with Mrs. Palmer and
visited with her. Mrs. Palmer was a
church worker the same as Miss Wen
cell, and in every way a Christian
woman, and vas working in mission
airy work and work of that class, and
as most of her children had grown up,
she persuaded Miss Wendell that she
was a very capable person to take
care of this little boy, and so she in
trusted him to her care under an
agreed compensation. l think the tes-
timony will show that the compensa-
ton at that time was $500 per eek,
n any extra expense for clothing,
doctor bills, or anything special, were
also to be paid to Mrs. Palmer. He
remained there until 1911, and Miss
Wendell, with the consent and an.
proval of the parents, took a trip to
Massachusetts, and continued her
nursing, and in Massachusetts she
found the home Of Mrs. Peffer, a lady
who had three older sons, and who
she became satisfied was a suitable
woman to take the proper care of this
little boy.
A MASSACHUSETTS Home.
She left him with Mrs. Refer, and
made that her headquarters at her
home and continued her work as a
nurse, and he remained there, l think,
for fourteen months. Then, she came
back to Iowa with him. have for
gotten n place, he was in the hands