New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-10

Like the young heroine, Pauline, who
figures in a certain movie classic, Mrs
Elise Holmes Volck, of II East Sixty
eighth Street. and her year and a half
old daughter were saved in the nick of
time from her husband. Morris Nolck.
son of Nine. Da Cana, wife of the
Brazilian Ambassador at Washington.
All the melodramatic details in this
dcliyerance from enemy husband were
there court, lawyers. detectives and
automobiles. Also the plot moved with
filmlike rapidity. The climax came
Vhen Nolck, hearing that Jabish
Holmes. his father-in-law, had engaged
counsel to get a writ of habeas corpus
orLering him TO produce his wife and
son in court, dashed out of his apart
ment and made for the Hotel Biltmore,
leaving the field clear for the rescuing
rarity.
Mrs. Volck's fear was that her hus-
band would take their baby, Elise Bates
Volck, from her before help arrived.
lie had taken steps to prevent any com
munication with his wife, either by
te.ephone or personal visit which &C
tor was responsible for the application
for writ Of habeas corpus made to
Justice Greenbaum in the Supreme
Court.
The first flicker on the Volck screen,
as exhibited yesterday, showed NoIck
returning TO the family apartment IN
the East Sixty-eighth Street house after
IN alleged absence of about a month.
He at once gave peremptory orders that
mis- wife must not leave the house. In
fear, Mrs. Volck telephoned her father,
who set out posthaste for his daugh-
ter's house. IN the hallway the super
Intendent informed Mr.. Holmes that
Vslck had given orders that no member
of his wife's family. or her counsel,
should be permitted 10 see or talk
with her.
Mr.. Holmes telephoned this situation
to his lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney. On
Tuesday evening Mooney went 10 the
house where the Volcks live, and al
though he succeeded in getting the
apartment by telephone, he, too, was
barred from entering. Mrs. Nolck had
no intention of leaving her husband.
She merely wanted free egress and in
gress, and she was especially ANXIOUS
to get out at the time because Of her
fear that her husband intended to take
their baby away. Nor did Mrs. Nolck
want to be alone with her husband.
Thinking that possibly during the
night Mrs. Volck might get a chance TO
get out Of the house with her child,
Mooney. with two assistants, went back
to the scene Of strife in an automobile:
The assistants and the car remained
there all night. Their other purpose
was to prevent Volck from taking away
the baby, but the expedition turned out
to be merely one Of watchful waiting.
Yesterday morning Mooney got Nolck
on the telephone and insisted on his
right as counsel to see his client.
Volck's reply was: "Ill do as please
in my own home. | pay the rent He
added that his wife could not call on
her family. Mooney tried to impress
the obdurate husband with the serious
ness of the situation, threatening to
apply to the court for writ of habeas
corpus. "Send it along was Volck's
ultimatum.
Later in the day Mrs. Volck succeed,
ed in using her telephone. She called
her father and said she wanted to get
out as soon as possible. He told her
she would probably have to wait until
to-day. But ! must get out tonight,
She insisted tearfully. Thereupon