The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-01-23
TWO WANT O'QUINN
CHILD
Wisdom of Solomon Necessary
to Settle Controversy Be-
tween Two Grandparents

/ Inc IuiloWlng article, taken from
the Salmon City Recorder, tells the
story of an unusual controversy and
legal mix-up in the estate of the late
Jack Oquinn, which the Recorder as
serts, will require the wisdom of a
Solomon to untangle.
Jack Oquinn, it will be remembered,
died at Salmon City of influenza. His
wife followed him a few hours after
ward, as did also an infant child. The
three were brought here for burial.
Bright, winsom Pat Oquinn, 2 years
old, is the only survivor of the fami-
Fly. The Recorders article tells the
rest of the story:
Mrs. Leroy Myers came to Sal
mon on Wednesday from Emmett.
On the way to this city Mrs. Myers
met the father of the late Jack
OQuinn who was coming to this city
on the same mission that brought her
here.
"My son and his wife died there not
long ago." Mr.. O'Quinn was saying,
"and | am going to take charge of a
little two-year-old boy they left. My
home is in Missouri"
why" Mrs. Myers rejoined, 81 am
going after that boy too, having been
requested by his maternal grandpar-
ents to do so.'
And so it happened that little Pat
O'Quinn found himself child very
much sought from having only stran-
gers to look after him since the death
of his parents in the flu attack in Sal
mon more than a month ago. Mr..
O'Quinn, the paternal grandfather,
and Mrs. Myers, who used to live near
Salmon but now resides at Emmett
where she knows the little fellows
maternal grandparents, had come af-
ter the child. Mrs. Myers had known
little Pats mother since early child
mood.
Mr.. O'Quinn offered an easy solu-
ton of the problem presented by say
ing that the child should be taken to
Emmett and that both himself and
Mrs. Myers should go along with him,
The custody of the orphan to be deter
mined after they got there. He said
ne had not been advised of the death
of his son nor Of his wife until post
office report came to him from a par
,els post shipment of Missouri sy-
up from his son and which the re-
bort said could not be delivered. The
postmaster went on to tell Of the
,alamity that had overtaken the fam
ly for whom the syrup had been in
ended as a Christmas present. The
I'D gentleman lost no time in start
ng for Salmon. He found his little
grandson beautiful child, we'll cared
or and now in good health, fully re-
covered from the same attack that
lad taken his parents. Since the child
vas bereft of parents he had been
,laced in the care of Mrs. M. C. Man
ull, whose daughters and Miss LeRue
samey had given all the attention
hat any boy could wish to have for
lis health and happiness.
His father belonged to the Salmon
Iational forest forces.
A change in program came about
his morning with the designation Of
he public administrator to look after
he affairs of the estate in this coun-
y. County Treasurer Gailbreath will
ssume this duty as pertaining to his
ffice. This change, after an admin
strator had already been appointed
t Emmett, caused still another
hange with respect to the custody of
he child, the grandfather having de-
ermined to leave for his Missouri
ONE taking the baby with him on
he next train out.
1t will take some of the removed
,isdom of Solmon to settle all this
ontroversy, if, as seems to be the
asst, there are contentious to arise
s between the two sets of grand
arents. In the first place it is claim
d as fact that the husband died
rst. If so, then the heirs of the
-ife, who died afterward, would be-
1me the heirs of the estate without
uestion and entitled to its admins
alton And this, it would seem, ac-
,rding to legal opinion at this stage
the case, would carry with it the
ire and custody of the little boy,
no would of course be the natural
cir of all the estate as the only sur
vor of the family. The father, it is
lid, left liberty bonds and cash to
Ie amount of about $1,000, besides
her property.