The Monroe journal., 1922-10-10
GAST0NIA WOMAN
CHARGED BIGAMl
Declares Law Means Nothing al All
10 He- ir Face Of Her Mothe-

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10 He- ir Face Of Her Mothe-
Love
A-la "a. Ca. Oct 6.-'I wan. my
hoy. Hes p, ne. | bore him. And.
though the rest o. the world IS against
7 me. | skall have him"
Mrs 5aues David Connell Shock.
+. Gas;oGia. y .. three times 4
wife. aew wag:ns a desperate fight.
/ n the face II bigamy charges. for
] possession Of her n.ne-year old hoy.
I who. she says was wrOngfully taken
/ from her ard adopted by an Atlanta
+ family. thus pleaded mother love
Tuesday aS the chief reason for re-
toyery 81 her boy
Nonday she was released from the
Euito1 cocrty AL on $500 bond after
4G unsuccessful visit 10 Atlanta 10
q, her ehi'l from John ". Fret
we'll u - C~umley street. its fos-
er fa,hgf N@o refuses to give UP
the boy.
II am ;HE to have my baby any
how," SAID Mrs. Shook. Hes mine
ard " Z have him. | am going 10
stay r.gs, here until my trial comes
up and | w.a him"
Ms ShooA IN the blindness of
wo,ter !3yS cannot see legal barrig~s.
They ar rotk.ng To her, she said.
The Only thing that matters 10 her
tha, the boy is hers and that she
wants hiu
I.oye> Present Husband
| am rot Mrs. Connel,," she per
sisted, Il am NrS. \. l.. Shook. Il
will I've and dia NIS. Shook | love
he waN | am now with and | IN
terd - stay with han until the end.
Il lid marry J. 4, Comell when
"as - years old. bu: he didn't live
vi;h me bG. ahou, three months. Then
Gt Went away il the army and the
reNJ ! heard Of him was in 1917. five
wear, igte~. when he was reported
( .lcG Ir France. | saw his name on
The death list. too
After heard he was dead mar
r'Ct gain, but my second husband. ! |
l.. Ganr-e. ~ kirkwood, was no good |
and H. would uo, support me. - |
left Em ac6 got divorce Ard then |
married Scook and | am going TO |
stay marr.y To him because | loye
aim WAS married to Shook when |
my first husband showed up. thought |
fe was q 'ad. hu, he wasn't. 50 | am |
going ,a have the marriage anrulled. |
! was only ! , when | married him. | |
ran away from school.
Soon after my first husband lef,
M my baby was born. was in At
laNta soon after and was sick. had
4fss.r NJ Iii
brothers house. When | went to the
hospital put my baby in the Geor-
ga Baptist orphanago in Hopevile,
That was on Friday When went for
him on Monday he was gone. The
Fre;well'> adopted him and wouldn't
give HIM back to ne.
Barred from Child
when | carrie down here a short
while ago to see my boy they wouldn't
.et ne see him Then they arrested me
and nut NE in ia'l on this charge Of
5igamy. | wired my husband and he
came down TO get me out
1t was all wrong about me leaving
shook and going back to Alabama. |
never have left him and never VIII.
And il was also wrong about me not
having any money have money.
y have been promised a job here
at the telenhoue company am going
to work VIII le | am here.
Mrs Shook, or Connell, said she
lid not think the courts would re-
fuse her her child when she revealed
some things" she said she knew about
he foster parent Of the child.
Mrs. Shook brought habeas corpus
proceedings for her child not long ago.
Fretwell fought the case and won. A
lew days later the Indictment charge
If bipamy was returned Saturday the
impulse to see her boy brought Mrs
Shook again 70 Atlanta. Fretwell, it
vas said, remembered the old bigamy
,harge and she was arrested.
She said she had retained new
awyer Frank 4 Doughman. to fight
1er battle for the year-old son
and against the charge Of bigamy.