Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-01
]. GUY HAUGH
DISAPPEARS
WITH z SONS
Takes Them From Orphans
Home for Ride and
Doesn't Return.
ECHOES DIVORCE TRIAL

ECHOES DIVORCE TRIAL
: J. Guy Haugh, former local haber-
dasher and hotel owner, has disap-
peared with his two sons, Roland, Z,
and Guy, Jr%,3.
Taking them from the indianapolis
%orphans home, 4107 East Washington
street. where they were placed by court
order. for an automobile ride, he appar-
emily was in fight or concealment with
them today.
Mrs. Marguerite Haugh, his divorced
wife, is frantically searching for the
children.
She appealed to authorities to institute
nationwide search, even to watching
steamship lines, fearing that her former
husband will seek to Keep the children
by taking them out OF the country
This climax of a long series of do
nestle difficulties between Haugh and
his divorced wife who is native OF
France. occurred yesterday, when Haugh
drove TO the orphans asylum to visit
his children.
TOLD MATRON To
DRESS THEM WELL.
Asking the matron 10 dress them In
their best clothes, he sped away with
them in his car.
He had not returned this afternoon.
At the Haugh hotel, where he has
been living. it was said that he was out
Of the city and that his whereabouts
were unknown
No word had been received from him,
Il was claimed at the asylum.
Mrs. Haugh, after vainly seeking aid
from many sources in Indianapolis. went
to Rushville to consult a lawyer.
Judge VIII II. Sparks Of Rushville,
who granted Haugh a divorce from his
wife, issued an order last week making
the children wsrds of Marion county.
She will seek to have a warrant issued,
charging her former husband with kid
naping, she said before she left.
MOTHER NOT ALLOWED
TO SEE CHILDREN.
Laura a. Beggs, superintendent of the
Orphans home. said Haugh left the home
with the children yesterday.
Many Of the children here have one or
both parents living" she said, "and the
parents frequently come 10 see them
Mr.. Haugh was allowed to take them
for a ride. and has not returned.
Mrs Haugh was not allowed to see
he children.
I simply thought it best that she
Re not allowed to see them" said the su
& perlntendent-
POLICE TAKE NO
ACTION IN CASE.
After talking 10 Judge Sparks Of Rush
Vile on the long distance telephone, Mrs.
Beggs said that the orphans asylum
would take no legal action to recover the
children.
They were simply placed in our care,
and if any action is to be taken it must
be taken by the court or the authorities,
~ she said.
dispatch from Rushvilie said Judge
Sparks had left the matter entirely to
the local authorities.
No Initiative had been taken By local
authorities this afternoon TO apprehend
laugh
Mrs Haugh, who went to New York
q few weeks ago. after she was released
i'm criminal court, returned to lndianap-
oils to continue her fight for the chill
drau.
she has called at the orphans home
frequently. but has not seen the children
IL any time, it is said.
When she called this morning she was
told they had disappeared with Mr..
Haugh.
ILAU CHS MET ON
SOARD STEAMER.
Mr. Haugh and his former wife first
met on a steamship on their way to
France about ten years ago.
Mrs Haugh. who is said TO come from
family of distinguished army officers
and literary people in France. was then
secretary to a literary man in New
York.
Her romance with Haugh quickly
budded. resulting in their marriage.
They returned to Indianapolis TO live
If Central avenue and Sixteenth street,
in the Haugh home
Their domestic difficulties eliminated
in the granting of the divorce by Judge
Sparks Of Rushville last year.
Mrs. Haugh's plea for her children
was refused.
On May 10, last year, Mrs. Haugh was
arrested on a charge Of attempting to
shoot her husband in the Horace Wood
garage on North Meridian street
CLUB WOMEN COME
TO HER ASSISTANCE.
She was arrested and. apparently being
penniless, was released on bond furnished
by Dr. Amelia Keller and Mrs. Ovid But.
Ter Jameson, prominent club women of
the city.
She was taken into Mrs. Jameson's
home but later to St Vincents hospital.
where she underwent a serious operation.
DR.. Keller took one of the children into
her home and Otto Keller, a brother,
took the other.
Mrs. Haugh became estranged from DIR.
Amelia helier dILeE sue was EeledSei
from the hospital, and went to New York
to earn 4 living teaching French.
She returned to indianapolis to face
trial in criminal court.
During the trial the state failed to
produce the revolver with which she
is said to have tried to shoot her hus-
band.
Haugh freely admitted that he took
the revolver from Indianapolis to- Chi
rago, where be left it.
The court, holding that the defendent
~ had the right 70 be confronted with the
alleged weapon, which her attorneys
said was not loaded with bullets which
would cause death. dismissed the case
BOTH APPARENTLY
PLEASED AT OUTCOME.
Haugh smiled, contentedly.
Mrs. Haugh, too, smiled and said:
Thank you, Guy"
After the trial DR.. Keller and Otto
Keller asked to be relieved of the
custody of the children
Judge Sparks. refusing to definitely,
award custody Of the children to either
OF the parents, made them wards of
Marion county.
According to the order Haugh was not
required to pay anything for their sup
port
The order did not say whether either
parent should be forbidden to see the
children.