The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-23
international Agreemen
Allow Baby to be BOrr
Under British Flag.
COUNTY AIDS RAJ
Mrs. Hewitt Sent Back Ho
After Interesting Interna.
tional Negotiations.

"Oh, to be IN England now, it's S,
mer there" was the plant of Ii
Mrs. W. Hewitt, a pretty English W,
an who had come with her hush
and son to Kenosha last October
pecting to find in this great coun
a new land of opportunity. Jus,
little bit later she is expecting a
of the stork and looming onward
expected motherhood she wanted
baby to be born under the English f
Il wish I could get her back he
before the baby comes" Howitt /
the county agent some time ago
this was the state of international
gotiationS for a race between a /
ocean steamer and the stork. h
Hewitt left Montreal this morn
bound for Liverpool aboard an Engl
steamer and within ten days she y
be back on a little farm way ous
the interior Of England with
mother and father.
British Consul is Aid.
at was one of those peculiar ca
brought on by conditions of unempl
ment in KenOsha," declared the con
agent this morning. Hewitt was z
lish all the way through, but he hat
half sister over here and when
wrote the story of big wages and
! that, he decided to come. He reaeF
KenoSha last October and Just abb
that time the slump came. Honest q
ready to work, Hewitt walked frt
factory to factory, but he found th
the old men were properly entitled
first places and he couldn't get wo,
With his wife and boy he had arrang
for q home with the little money !
brought with him, but when this ".
gone he had to get out and he has bet
dependent on charity for the past 70,
months. he has been willing to wo,
but couldn't get work. I took the ma
ter up with the British consul
Chicago"
The story tells how the English col
sui took the matter up with the hon
Office and the record Of Hewitt in EN-
land was looked up. At the factor
in the interior where he had werke
for a number of years the. men
charge declared that he was honest AT
industrious and that he would !
given employment if he was returne
to them. The Home Secretary got Il
papers in the Hewitt case and he MAJ
an investigation and two or three da5
ago cabled the British consul in Oh
cago that he would see to it that IL
expenses Of Hewitt and his lit
family were paid if they were lande
on British soil. The members Of II
family were greatly rejoiced when Il
word came that they were "goir
home" There wasn't much left /
pack, but it was ready in a fe
minutes and Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt an
the little boy left Kenosha early We,
nesday with an assurance that tbs
would be at the pier Montreal whe
the ship sailed for England and hon
at noon today.
Just Asked for q Loan.
Hewitt was not confessing BAN
ruptcy and he told the county agel
that he wanted it understood that !
was not asking Kenosha county to pa
any of his expenses back to Englan
He just asked for a loan and before
left Chicago he signed an agreemeI
with the British consul to pay back {
Kenosha county the money advance
to get him and his family to Montre
and to pay back to the British go
eminent the cost of transportatio
from Montreal to Liverpool
Hewitt is one returning immigral
who does not expect to come back
the United States.