Show PARSONS CHILD GIVEN MOTHER I I Wells ells Not Entitled to Son SonIs Is T Verdict Grandmother er Weeps e ps at Decision In a decision rendered from the bench benchIn In which he Mercilessly rebuked William Willlam Will Will- lam iam Warren Wells oUs the principal re roI ro- I Judge C. C W. W Morse of the Third district court yesterday awarded to Miss liss Bessie Parsons tho the custod custody o of her year old child In the action tho the child was referred to as Warren Jarrett Wells ells Miss Parsons Parsons Par Par- sons said he will hereafter be bo Varret Jarrett Parsons though h the habeas corpus COlpus cor cor- pus proceedings fixed the baby's name I as Wells ells Julia Wells Welle and Mabel Wells mother moth moth- I er and sister o of William Warren Wells Yell 1 father lathel of ot the child burst into tears as counsel for Cor them was malting making his plea pIca and on Instruction of Judge Morse Iorge were escorted from the courtroom b by a bailiff lends for Child I Oh nw my baby IT my bab baby moaned Mrs Irs Wells Yells Even after atter the decision had been rendered she sho ho held to the tho child until tho the moment when it was a case of ot giving giving- him up UI or facing facing- contempt proceedings Confronted with the tho record of ot his hie divorce proceedings William Warren i Wells Yells on the stand admitted that he had deceived ed his counsel when whon he ho said he received an Interlocutory decree of divorce in Hill 1911 The record of ot his dl- dl orco proceeding showed that he ho did I dl-I not file filo the suit until May In 9 3 9 1912 The Tho respond respondent nt had pr previously testified testified tes tes- titled that th he had started living with Miss Parsons In 1911 and had promised prom prom- I cd her that he would marry h her r as soon as us he ho obtained hi Ills his final decree of oC divorce ore lie said at first that at t. t taut t at time he lie expected to obtain the tho final decree de- de decree decree de de- cree within a tow low months Miss Parsons had testified that he had refused to marr marry her even en after alter tho the child had been born Both Roth said the they lived JI as ns man and wire wife Miss s Parsons Parsons Parsons Par Par- sons said their relations have now become bo- bo come so strained over o Wells Wells' refusal to marr marry her that silo sile would not he be his wife Ifo under an any consideration especially especially espe espe- since she knows now how nou ho he de deceived deceived do- do her re regarding divorce proceed ings b by which he was separated from his former formel wife wite Wells set up In his ills answer to tho habeas 8 corpus petition a u defense in which he lie contended that the child is 13 a legitimate one lie contended that there was waa a common law marriage be between he- he tween himself and tho the petitioner Judge Morse ruled that th there was no common common common com com- mon law marriage and that the tho child is illegitimate |