The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-27

NlSuU VI GU. O-NA1IS. SOWieS has
Petitioned for Extradition Papers for
the Doctor
BOSTON, Feb. 27.-The sensational
disclosure of the way in which Dr. Ed
ward S. Cowles of Portsmouth, n. H.,
spirited away his two little daughters
from his home IN the dead of night on
Feb. 6 and took them to Toano, Va, was
followed yesterday by Mrs. Cowles s
announcement that she would at once go
10 Virginia and would insist on seeing
her children.
Mrs. Cowles, through her attorneys,
Joseph w. Bartlett of IS Milk street and
Dwight Hall of Portsmouth, has petit
toned Attorney General futile of New
| Hampshire for extradition papers for
( DIR. Cowles, charging him with contempt
of court and kidnapping. An answer
is expected today.
IN the meantime DR.. Cowles had APP
piled TO Judge ID. Gardiner Tyler of
! williamsburg, Va, for a guardianship
! for his children. On Feb. % Judge TYLER
appointed as guardian Mrs Harriet V.
Cowles, who is DR.. Cowles 5 mother.
4 However, il is understood that this
guardianship is only temporary and
that a final hearing on its permanency
is TO be had on the matter. This hearing
had been set for today, but Mrs. COwles
wired to Judge TYLER for a delay until
she can reach Williamsburg herself. At
tornev Frank Armistead of Williams
burg has been retained by Mrs. Cowles
to watch her interests.
DR.. Cowles wants his mother appoint
or permanent guardian, and there is to
be a big fight, Mrs. Cowles being de-
termined that the children shall return
to the jurisdiction of the New Hamp.
shire courts. DIR. Cowles, in asking
Judge Tyler for Il guardianship, said
that he had given up his residence in
Portsmouth and was now a resident of
Virginia; that his wife was a resident
of Massachusetts,, and that therefore
New Hampshire had no claim on the
jurisdiction whatever.
The Cowles divorce was granted q
year ago. BY the terms of the divorce
each parent was to have the children
f, for six months, and each was privileged
to visiE the children during their Gus
tody with the other.
Mrs Cowles was about to visit the
children when she received letter from
, DR.. Cowles from Virginia, in which h
| stated that BE- had the children, that
J., they would stay with him. and that sh,
a would not again get them on March 4
a when they were by law to 90 to her.
= DIR. Cowles, 1t is understood asked
II Mrs. Cowles 5 counsel some months agC
to be permitted to take the children
TO New York, saying that he had beer
offered two positions there in hospitals
Counsel for Mrs. Cowles objected. DIR
? Cowlcs then petitioned Judge Sawye
Of Concord for permission, and he for
bade his taking the children either t,
New York or to Virginia, the latte
( place being Dr. Cowles : home.
The first news Mrs. Cowles had of tn
kidnapping was the letter from Dr
Cowles and the publication of the new
. of the children 5 removal Mrs Cowle
says that every week she had visite
y, the children.
u II shall go to Virginia at once to b
a, on the ground. ! have asked Judg
III Tyler, who is a son of the late Presiden
+ Tyler, to delay the hearing until | ca
II get there. | want to see the childre
AZ and to be near them, and | shall tigh
a for the children until the very last.
A. just before leaving Portsmouth d.
Z Cowles said to a reporter:
Il have decided no longer to spar
"a Mrs. Cowles for the sake of the chi
;" dren. ] will no longer submit to he
I, whims. She has absolutely no love fC
- the children, and has constantly vi,
I, lated the court S orders. | shall tax
= matters into my own hands