The Washington times., 1922-10-29
NOTHERF|GHTs
FOR CHILD SHE
GAVE UP At IS

Wedded Ihree times ono Oe-
fies Bigamy Charge and
Demands Boy Of 10
ATLANTA. Ca, Oct. 2s.-Mar-
ried at twelve years, a mother at
thirteen. 81 g..
That was the beginning Of the
tragedy Of Jane David H.
And the end of that tragedy Is
not yet in sight. ...f. 81.
For Jane David is now twenty
three years old, and in the eleven
years that have passed since love
entered her life, she has been mar
ried three times.
Faces Bigamy Charge.
Now she Is facing a charge Of
bigamy-only a technical charge,
Jane David says. yet it may mean
prison for her. The charge would
never have been filed. the girl. for
she seems still q girl. would have
been permitted to live and love the
= latest man she married undisturb-
ed
Only Jane David could not for.
get the babe she bore ten years
ago. She felt that she could no
longer live without him.
: So she risked her liberty to take
the boy. Albert James Connell. from
the home Of his foster parents. The
effort failed, the mother was arrest
cd, and in the controversy the
bigamy charge was lodged against
her. in Atlanta, Ga.
Thrice Wed, Now Happy.
J. A. Connell was her first hus-
band. They parted, and he went to
war before the baby was born.
Thinking him dead, the girl-mothef
placed the child in an orphan asy-
lum, whence he was adopted by Mr..
and Mrs John Fretwell, OF Atlanta.
Ken Jane married Thomas George,
OF Kirkwood. and after three months
she divorced him. This was seven
years ago. Then she married j. l..
shook, of Gastonia' with whom she
Mrs. Jane David -Connell- George
shook-what an array Of names Tor
q woman of twenty-three-Sasserts
that she is happy with her present
husband, only the longing for little
Albert makes life upbearable. Sne
PROMISES to prove in court that she
was informed of her first husbands
death and intends to bring annull-
ment proceedings to clear her name,
since he has been found TO be living.
Demands Baby Back
But I'm going to have my baby
back" the young woman said, en-
phatically. "He Is mine and mine
alone. I am going to be freed OF
this charge and then I will stay In
this city until my boy Is returned to
me. There is no use talking about
the legal barriers of adoption and
the rest. The boy Is mint and I'll
have him. am turning Heaven and
earth to succeed.
"I am not Mrs. Connell," she
persisted. "I am Mrs. A. l.. Shook.
I love the man I am married to now
and I intend to stay with him till
the end.
"I did marry ]. A. Connell when
! was twelve years old, but he lived
with me only about three months.
Then he went away in thre army
and the next thing I heard Of him
was in 1917, five years later when
he was reported killed In France. I
saw his name on the death list too.
Second Marriage
after heard he was dead I
married again. but my second hus-
band, ]. L. George, of Kirkwood,
did not support me to my satisfac.
tiop so left him and got q divorce.
And then I married Mr.. Shook and
! am going to stay married to him,
because I love him. I was married
TO him when my first husband show.
Cd up. I am going to have the mar
riage annulled. I was only twelve
when I married him. I ran away
from school.
Soon after my first husband left
me my baby was born. was in
Atlanta soon after and was sick.
had been boa riding at Mrs. Fret.
wells brothers house. When I
went to the hospital put my baby
in the Georgia Baptist Orphanage
In Hapeville. That was on Friday.
When I went for him on Monday
ed him and wouldn't give him back
70 me
Barred From Child.
when I came down here short
while ago to see my boy they
wouldn't let me see him. Then they
arrested me and put me in jail on
this charge of bisamy, I wired my
husband and he came to get me out.
ut was all wrong about me leav-
ing Shook and going back to Ala
bama. I never have left him and
never will. And II was also wrong
about me not having any money.
! have money, and I am going to
work while I am here"
Mrs. Shook brought habeas corpus
proceedings for her child not long
ago. Fretwell fought the case and
won. A few days later the indict-
ment charging bigamy was return.
ed. The impulse to see her boy
brought Mrs Shook again to At
lanta. Fretwell, II was said. brought
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