The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-31
,S)N CONFIRMS
 s.',1IOTHER'S STORY
Harold Leland, IF, Testifies Of
 Parents Relations With e Pastor
By HARLAN 8. MILLER (Leased Wlre to The Ass-hsraid.)

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 CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-With less seaction than he. might display during AsTecitation at his high school English sc31as, Harold Leland, IT, testified AxAinst his mother in the Leland divorce suit.
 k Reiterating his determination to stick to her through thick and thin, his story avowedly corroborated her own eof improper relations with Pastor Carl D. Case.
 Young Leland went to the stand only as final trump card in his father battle for divorce, after a surprise at tempt by Judge Charles M. Foell to bring about reconciliation between Deacon Albert Leland and his wife had failed.
 The judge was intensely disappointed by the failure of his efforts. Mrs. Leland had indicated her enduring love for her husband, despite her confessed infidelity s.
 Leland himself, while insisting his love for her is now dead, had hinted broadly that time might resuscitate his Affection.
 FoelI called attorneys for both sides into his chambers and for two hours, while scores of members of the First Baptist church of Oak Park waited i'm patiently in the court, urged that Le- land forget and forgive
 Says Pastor Wanted Case Flushed Leland, however, had instructed his counsel to insist that Case, the CO.,
 spondent, not only resign from his
 ik Park pulpit, but retire from the
 inistry entirely and go into business. Ghis Cases attorneys declined to con- nh Ivete sion of guilt.
 When the judge and counsel re- entered the court room young Leland at..a nod from his father, squeezed his $inother.s hand and took the stand to tell about his visit to the pastorate to demand the truth about the affair.
 Mrs. Case was present" the boy oaid. "Mr9 Case refused to deny the truth of the reports.
 .He said my father was wrong to think of divorcing my mother. He even said father ought to forgive her and keep the matter hushed. He said he himself was so prominent it would ruin him in the Baptist church.
 The boy told of finding the pastor Ut his home alone with his mother. T would come home from school and find him there" he said, land he telephoned mother innumerable times"
 Friends of the Lelands and members of Cases flock began to wonder Wednesday what Case will do if the divorce is granted. and what the con- gregation should do if it is not.
 Leland Follows Son On Stand s-yyill Case continue as pastor?' be- came question that overshadowed ! even the prospects for and against the { issuance of divorce. Case has re- ceived hundreds of letters and verbal ! assurances of sympathy and confidence, mo matter what the outcome of the strial is" Leland commented bitterly !; on this five been member of that church six years, and I don't see that s I've been guilty of anything in asking q this divorce. and yet not one friend has come forward for me-" he said.
 He followed his son on the witness stand, to contradict the pastors testi- Jmony concerning book called Sex q Worship" written by a distant cousin { of Case. which the latter denied he ( loaned Leland. Case had asserted that { be hasn't seen the volume since 1905.' | "f1e handed me the book one day in ]; 1923 and said there is something you ' musn't miss
 ]. 1T had only to glance at few pages of it to realize that it was not the < sort. of stuff man ought to be in terested in.''
 , Judge Foell may announce his de- eision Thursday at ? o'clock, or may wait until Friday.