Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-06 | Page 9 | Curtis Children Taken to Kansas

CURTIS CHILDREN T KANSAS Weber County Commission-' Commission-' crs Remove Them From Reach of Grandmother. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. March 5. The Curtis-Nicholson controversy rcsardlnp the custody of two minor children. Ruclla V. and Albert B. Curtis, which was fouslit bitterly In the district court recently, probably has been brought to an end so far as Offdcn Is concerned. Ofliccrs of the Children's Aid society announced today that the children have been sent back to their original home, Topcka, Kan., where they will be cared for at a homo for children. In the care of Mrs. R. D. Robins, a member of the local society, the two children left Osden last nieht on their trip east. Because of the belief that Mrs. Ruella P. Curtis, grandmother of tho children and one of I he contestants for their custody. Is in F.vanston, wyo., tne announcement of the plan to send the waifs out of Ogden was not mado public until they wore well out of reach of the persistent grandmother. After considerable correspondence with the Topcka society, the local organization was asked to send the children east, provided pro-vided no c.vponse was attached to removal re-moval from Ogdcn to Kansas. Tho cx-ft'usc cx-ft'usc of tho trip was defrayed by tho Weber county commissioners. Officers of the local court and others in this city do not bclievo that Mrs. Curtis Cur-tis will desist in her efforts to again obtain ob-tain custody of tho children. She made several attempts to kidnap them while thev were In this city and on one occasion occa-sion she took them from the Crittenden home, where they had been placed under orders from the court. For ihls act she was a n ested on a charge of contempt and spent sovcral days In the county ,iall pending a hearing. In. the hope that she would leave tho city she was finally released re-leased on her own recognizance and is thought to have departed a fow days ago for EvaiiKton. Wyo.. to escape the jurisdiction juris-diction of the court.