The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-03
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nave the cnlluS footprint taken
for check against similar prints
with hospital records.
Single when the birth took
place the young mother, has
since married Louis Horvath, of
Cleveland, where the couple
now makes its home.
The Hoges, who have brought
up the child, live at 6010 Hard
ing avenue, in Warren town.
ship.
OFFERED S100
On the stand yesterday Pc
tite Mrs. Horvath said: my sis
ter said she was unable to have
baby and she dearly loved
children and she would give me
500 to have baby by her hus-
band. I was IA years old then"
The young Cleveland house
wife then said that. two years
later, while not taking advan-
tage of her sisters offer of a
cash payment, she did enter into
relations with her brother-in-
law which extended over a con-
siderable period. Six weeks
later, she said, she discovered
that she was to become a moth
err and a family conference re-
suited in her being admitted to
the hospital in September as
Mrs. Catherine Hoge."
REFUTES CHARGES
While Mrs. Rogers said, under
direct examination that she did
not feel the .Ioge home a proper
place for Patricia, she was
forced to admit under cross-ex-
animation that she had sent her
own Ia year old boy on
months visit there and that he
showed no ill-effects.
Defense attorneys also
brought from her an admission
that Louis Horvath had once
struck his wife, Alice Juanita,
with a chair in the Rogers resi-
dence and that the three of them,
on another occasion, had been
taken to Columbus police head
quarters following a scuffle in
bar which resulted from Mrs.
Horvath refusing to accompany
her husband to their home in
Cleveland.
Following Mrs. Rogers cross
examination, Louis Horvath,
husband of her youngest sister
and who would become the fos-
ter father of his wife's child
should she be granted custody of
it was called to the stand for di-
rect examination by his wife's
attorney.
WILLING ENTER ARMY
He testified that he knew of
his wife's baby the day they
talked about getting married
and that he had agreed to keep
the child if it were given to its
natural mother. He declared that
he had registered the baby as
his stepchild, not as his child,
and that he had had no in
tention Of using it to avoid being
drafted. He said that he had an
opportunity to earn more money
in the Army now than he had
when he quit the service and
that he would be willing to re-
enter the Army. Testimony was
taken to show that he sent his
wife kilograms and letters, often
with greetings to little Patricia
while Mrs. Horvath was absent
from her home for from three
weeks to three months to visit
with the child.
VITAL TO -yOME?
He intimated that unless the
baby were given tC his wife,
their marriage might not last,
due to her long absences to visit
it and that Patricia's presence in
their home would draw them
closer together.
CALL RECESS
A recess was taken at 1910
p m. to lis p. m. for lunch hour
and the hearing is to be resumed
and continued until pm. when
it will be adjourned to Monday
morning.
Harold Geddes, counsel for
Mrs. Catherine Hoge, wife of the
father of the child, said he
would probably 60 to Ohio to
get dispositions and records to be