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Show A MOTHER ROBBED OF HER CHILD. One of tbe must exciting scenes ever witnessed in a couil of justice transpired in Judge Elliott's court ou Friday in the decision ot the Sanlord nbens corpus case, which was in the nature ol a petition from a father for tbe recovery aud possession of hie daughter, tbe custody of which had been in the tirotntr, who it appears from tbe evidence bad left her husband hus-band and come to Colorado to obtam divorce on account of bis repented cruelty and insults. In the bearing of tbe case hi-impugned the virtue ol his wile upon uitutbcient evidence. Tbe judge gave the child to the father on the ground that his house was its home, from which the mother hnd absented herself. The reporter of the Denver News describes the scene that ensued: The Bherifl lifted the child from the floor and placed it in the father a arms, tbe mother 'clinging to Us hands, and declaring she never would be separated from it. The sheriti loosed her hold, and detained her an instant; the father and child passed quickly into the hall; amid some contusion, con-tusion, tbe judge directed tbe officer ' to relate the woman, ' who darted with the ;quickueas' of lightning through the door,' and again dosed , with the child the three retiring into I the clerk's 'office." " By thU time the excitement hiid, became 'intense, and ' was! crowded with an hundred men, an nMi-0 jt difficult to restrain feelings which weit. a(1t getting the belter of them." Witbiu -nie clerk's office were heard tbe Bobbingh of the child, the prayers and entreaties oi the mother, the cpld, irod-Iike commands com-mands of the officers; tha door BWiing open, the crowd surged back, and the obild whh hnrnp Mr.reaminc through the hall, while the mother was writhing and agonizing in ussless supplications iu the firm grip of the aherifl and hie deputy: and half carried, half dragged iu the opposite direction along the corridor to the 'sheriff's office, where she fell upon her knees, and the door dosed . between her and tbe excited throng. Never was there such a scene in a court of justice in this state, and may God forbid that there may ever be another. Strong men trembled with excitement and emotion; tears of pity stood in eyes unaccustomed to weep; and had it not been under tho very shadow of tbj court, and in tbe: immediate presence of the Bherifl' and his deputies, it is not improbable that open violence would have been offered .0 the father. The justice of no decision de-cision could bave baen maintained biifore such a scene as this inhuman tearing aw;iy of the child from the mother that loved it; and it is a com-, plimeut to the law abiding character of our people that no open disturbance occurred. . .: ' . The News report closes as follown: Write it then upon the walls of our halls of justice; proclaim it broadcast through the state, and wide acroBs tbe land, that here, in Colorado, tbe wisdom and excellence ol whose laws are the boast of her people, and the pride of her citizens, that our courts will drag a child screaming from its mother's anna aud place it ia the custody of a In ther whom it is charity to call a lunatic. . , j ,i |