Show Boys Are Happy oi 1 C 4 f Back With Father at Last 44 4 fr 4 fr Grandmother Accuses Man 4 p r It ii Ii q JL t I At AtA A I Mu 5 J k z iC 5 4 t t 4 t tAfter After being sought for more than three years in different parts of the country Marvin left age 8 and Lawrence right 10 have been united with their father C. C L. L Penn Fenn in Salt Lake C. C L. L Fenn Recovers Sons From in Mother After Three Years Decla Declares res Court Decree in His F Favor avor G centrally In a four tour 1 JD months' months court battle and sought b by their father for tor over three years earl In Indifferent Indifferent Indifferent different parts of the United States following their disappearance from Grand J Junction unction Colo Cob carl early in 1915 Lawrence and md Marvin laT Fenn Feun are united In Salt Lake today with their rather father C. C L. L Fenn for be the first time lime since the moth mothers mother's death Yesterday the time father accompanied b by his two his two sons arrived In Salt Lake from Denver cr Charges are arc made by the grandmother of or tho the toys boys Mrs Nettle Nettie Hale that Fenn tho the boys bos I Time The They disappeared from froni Denver after having ha been visited b by their father I Tue Tuesday afternoon The Tho stor story of oC the tho fight for the custod custody custody cus cus- tod tody o of the children dates back bacic to the mothers mother's death In Colorado Springs on July 4 J 1911 The Tho grandmother was awarded temporary custody of the children chil chil- dren ren by her daughter previous to her death Long u Legal ul hattie 1 Following this a four months' months legal battle in the Mesa esa count county court en en- en sued The gran grandmother Claims that j en-j tho the court awarded her tho the custody o of tho the two boys The father who is a traveling traveling sales sales saleM salesman man for the Minneapolis Steel Machinery Machinery Ma Ma- Ia chinery company compan and resides at 10 N N. Second West street In Salt Lake Latte as asserts asserts as as- sorts that the court placed the children children chil chil- dren in his care with the tho stipulation that he ho should find a fitting home for them In Salt Lake In narrating his own story Mr Ir Fonn Fenn said last night My u wife died at Grand Junction Jut July 4 1917 The grandmother tried to adopt the children She Sho obtained tho the mothers mother's consent to this plan a few days 8 before her death while she was wa suffering such pain that she did not really realize what sh she was doing Say Spite n Cause The grandmother filed flied a petition for Cor adoption the next la day after the moth moth- I ers er's death We rc had had hind n a little trouble over mone money matters pro previous to this thie and she took the children knowing that thus she could hurt me worse than in an any other othern n way I hI fought the caso case in court for four months and in that len length th of time had lost my position here in Salt Lake In III awarding me rue the custod custody of or the children chil chill dren the court ruled that the they should remain within the time jurisdiction of oC the court until I 1 returned from Salt Lake and provided a homo home for Cor them During that timo the time grandmother took tool the children from froni Grand GIand JUnction Junc June tion to Arkansas as This Was as early in 1915 1015 r I r 1 commenced searching for the tho boys bOM finally locating locating- them a y year as' as later in the time small Inland town of or Burlington A Ark rk She Site Moves Once More I immediately made preparations to togo togo togo go down there but a da day or two before beCore I was ready to start I 1 learned that she I had a again aln disappeared I was vas unable to locate the children again until Just before Christmas 1917 when hen I was notified by the tho Denver authorities that the tho children were there v Ith the tho grandmother and nearly des lles- I sent seat money at lt once to be used to purchase e clothing for them and told the authorities that I would be there within a short time to bring the boys bos to Salt Lake VI 1 1 wont Went to Denver on December S Sand and found the children quarantined with chickenpoX February 1 I 1 I re received receIved received re- re notice that the children were out of oC quarantine and that the grandmother grandmother grand grand- ll mother had been taken to a Denver ho hospital pital I 1 met the children In the offices of or time the social l service bur bureau au and found them to o be in a n pitiful condition con con- I told the authorities that I would take them downtown and get them then some clothes On the time way downtown the children asked me If the they might go home with me mc I told them yes as After Atter getting them a n few fow ow clean clothes we went to dinner and amid then boarded a train and came to Salt Lake The two boys bOM bore out his statement and when asked if H the they were glad to bo ho with their father the they smiled and anti shook their heads In the affirmative e anti and said said- |