The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25
SUES HUSBAND TO GET POSSESSION
 OF LITTLE SON
Defendant Had Barred His Father r-in-LaW From His
 New York Home.

1 New York, May 25.-An appeal to the Supreme Court by Mrs. Char1ine Daily Barnett, daughter of Vice-Presi- dent Charles F. Da1y of the New Y ork Central Railroad, for aid in her effort 1 to take her four-year-old son, Charles Dayl Barnett, now assistant general sales manager of the American Sugar Refining Company, disclosed the fact that the Barnetts, who lived in the 1 Ormonde, 2O30 Broadway, have been separated since March 12 last.
 Barnett, who resigned last Dececber as assistant general passenger agent of 1 the New York Central, where he was in his father.in-1aw's department, ad- rnitted in reply to his wife's plea for custody of the boy that he not only 1 took his son away from Mrs. Barnett on April 24 last, but that he took the nurse, who has cared for the boy since | infancy. Both, he said, were well cared for in his apartment. He added that his wife was so angered by his act in taking the boy that when he sent for the childs night clothes she refused to send them, although it was then too late at night for him to buy other garments. Barnett said that he had a right to be the head of his own house." without interference from his father-in-law.
 Wife Tells of "ECrue1ties.''
 Mrs. Barnett, in her petition. said | that she was T1aFr1ed5 on une l, 5l9U9s and that she lived with her husband 1 until March 2 last. Before that, she said, his "crue1ties and licentiousness,'' he made her life unhappy. Then, she said, because he was to "dangerous and unfit to live with she was forced to leave him.
 l She said that when she left her hus- i band she took her son, born October 26, 1913, along with her, not only be- cause she believed her husband total ly unfit to have the boy but because of her "desire through maternal love and affection to have child of such tender years with his mother She said that after leaving her husband she i sent her boy to visit his father regu- 1 lar1y, in the care of the nurse, "exer- J cising only the prudence to see that such visits were under proper auspi- ces.''
 On April 24, while the boy was in the care of his nurse, her husband" for cibly and against the protest of the nurse, took the boy and refused, and still refuses, to return him.
 BaEnett, through his attorney, Will liam Yravers Jerome, said that his wife left him without justification or l cause.''
 'tShe wiIful1y abandoned me and took with her without my knowledge or consent he said. "On April 24 peacefully resumed care and tcustody of my said child and took him, together with his nurse, to my apart ments at 203O Broadway, a commo- dious and comfortably furnished apart ment. The nurse is the same one who has been with the child since he was 5 or months old.
 W4nts Her to Return.
 1T have tried to, induce my wife to return and offered to take her back in spite of her said conduct, and to absolutely forgive and forget her past acts, and to support her in our own home in a manner beftting her station in 1ife.''
 He said that on the day he took the child his wife and her father, with whom she has been living since she left him, called at the apartment. He said he told her that she could come in, but that he didn't want her father in the house, whereupon she withdrew. | Barnett attached to his answer 8. let ter written to his wife after she left him in which he addressed her as My dear wife, In it he said:
 ttI have thought the whole matter over most carefully, and have reached 8 very definite conclusion. What I have determined is this: I propose to be the head of my own house and fam fly from this time on. I am prepared to fully and freely forgive you for what you have done, and shall be glad and willing to welcome you back to our home. I have refurnished the apart ment and I ask you to come to it and live there. and the past shall be as if it never had been. With love, from your. husband.
 | 'TW. R.. BARNETT.''