The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-07
DIR. COWles Has Children Re
moved to Hospital
in Boston
CHILDREN ARE ILL
WITH SCARLETINA
Little Ones Unable to Understand
Why, for First Time, They Are Left
with Strangers = Mrs. Cowles SAYS
She Will Not Marry.

Snatched from the care of their mother
while being nursed by her through attacks
of scarletina, Mary Haywood Cowles, 6
years old, and Harriet Virginia Cowles, 5
years, are confined in room off one of
the big wards in the contagious depart
ment Of the Boston City hospital
The two children were placed in the hos
pital Saturday afternoon by their father,
DIR. Edward s. Cowles, formerly of Brat
tleboro, who, taking advantage of the rul-
ing of the court, which had granted de-
cree Of absolute divorce to his wife, with
the understanding that the children should
remain in the custody of their father six
months each year, went to a farm house
in West Midway, where the little girls lay
| i'll, and, despite the protests of Mrs
| Cowles, had them taken from their beds
| DIR. Cowles then took the children to Bos-
| ton in his automobile
| 1t was learned that having been removed
| from the care of their mother, who had
| been nursing them day and night for more
! than a week, they We're not visited Sun
day by their father or by any other rela-
tive or friend. The only inquiries concern
| ing their condition came from the nearly
Iprostrated mother and their grandmotho~
Mrs Mary J. ,Jaquith both of whom tele-
phoned in from West Midway. 1t was
understood at the City hospital that i'm
mediately after leaving his children at that
institution, DIR. Cowles returned to his
home in Portsmouth, N H. 1t was said
at the hospital that no word had come
from him in the course Of the day.
Little Girls Can't Understand.
Though it cannot be said that the two
little ones, now in the care of two compe
tent nurses, lack anything they require IN
the nature Of medical attention. it is diff
cult to make them understand why, fol
the first time in their lives, they are left
IN the care Of strangers
Though it was understood that the two
children, in accordance with the mandate
of the court, should pass on Saturday into
the custody of their father, who was to 81
allowed to retain them for six months, il
was not expected that he had any thought
of removing them from their mother.
care while, as he knew, they were victims
of a contagious disease. 1t was Mrs
CoWles's intention to deliver them to hel
former husband as soon their condition
was such as to warrant it.
Mingled with the children's wonder con
cernng the absence of their mother, father
and grandmother, during their illness, i
their anxiety concerning their playmate
Collie, large dog given to their mothe1
by their father about three years ago.
After DR.. Cowles appeared at the Yves
Midway farm Saturday, he directed tina
tthe two children be made ready for
journey. While these directions were be
ing carried out, he went into the yard il
search Of Collie, the dog Finding the ami
nal, he removed from its collar the nam
plate which bore the name Of his forme
wife, and when this was done he took tn
dog to the waiting automobile. taking
with the children to Boston.
The children seemed inclined to bclicv
i that, IN some way, the dog was forevc
d lost to them, There is little doubt. how
4 ever, that their father took it with hin
to Portsmouth