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Show Ml LID TALE IS TOLD I d WITNESS ST1D (H Contest Over Custody of H Children Comes to Head mjjfj at Ogden. mil Special to The Tribune. MM? OGDEN". Jan. 30. Additional lurid deal de-al g tails of the family affairs involved in m the Curtis-Nicholson controversy for pos-gjll pos-gjll session of two minor children wcro Wm brought tint today In tho resumption of M the habeas corpus cauo of Mrs. Sarah W Nicholson against Mrs. Rnclla P. Cur-K Cur-K lis. Tho matter occupied tho attention 1 of Judge N. J. Harris throughout tho day K without the case having been complotod at the adjournment of court this oven-iR oven-iR '"tcd days ago Mrs. Nicholson, said to WM be the mother of tho children, applied for Wm a writ of liaboas corpus to regain pos-ff pos-ff session of Buclla V. Curtis and .Albert H B. Curtle, who havo boon In tho custody llfH of Mrs. Curtis, tho supposed grandmoth-UHH grandmoth-UHH er, for brief intervals during the past I mam few years. It is alleged that Mrs. Curtis. IIR has repeatedly stolen tho children from 11 their mother, these afalra having been IHH brought to public notice In more than IHj nix cities between tlie Missouri river and WmW the Pacific coast. The arrest or Mrs. M Curtis in thlH city recently followed her KM attempt to escape to Salt Lake with the Hh children. , Wmm On the witness stand today Mrs. Nlch-HM Nlch-HM olson testified that she had no means HOI of knowing whether Mrs. Curtis was her HH real mother and that she had never HI known her father. While thoy wore rc-siding rc-siding in an eastern city, according to her BjuBf testimony, a man called at their house MHI for a Utile girl and Mrs. Curtls'H mother HBB concealed Mrs. Nicholson, then a small UR girl, behind a chair until tho man left. NU( The witness said she had been reared MHj by Mrs. Curtis, who Hho regarded as her Inn stepmother. HHJ When only H years of age. Mrs. Nich-lUM Nich-lUM ol&on declared, Mrs. Curtis had Induced HSJ her to lead an Immoral life, forcing her BMW to earn their livelihood. Mrs. Nichol-IntS Nichol-IntS Hon testified to the allegations of her HJ complaint to tho effect that Mrs. Curtis BMf had been married seven times under the iljOH common law, also that the woman hud IIAWj led an Immoral life, had been arrested BjHflf in several cities for vagrancy, and had DHt been committed to the Buffalo. N. Y., uMBJ mental hospital after having been ad-IB ad-IB judged insane. Tho witness said they iH mmc west when Mrs. Nicholson was 5 HI yearn old, since which time- they have HJ lived in many cities and towns. Mrs. Hj Nicholson said she had no means of HA knowing her real ago. Hfl With regard to tho children, Mrs. H Nicholson said tho little girl was born M In Colorado and the boy In New Mexico, W but that Mr. Nicholson was not tho fa-, fa-, HH t her of cither one. Her recital of their Mm travel!! about the west and tho many 6 nllcged kldnaplngs of the children by Warn Mrs. Curtis was a lenghty one. She de-Hj) de-Hj) rlared that she was In possession of tho iBH children since they were born with tho KM exception of those, tlmca when MrB. Cur-HH Cur-HH tls lind stolen them. HH Edward Nicholson, the plain tlfr.s hus- HuV band, and a reporter In tho employ of BHHi 'h Ogden Examiner, were tho only wlt- IHfl nesscH other than Mrs. Nicholson. The IfHHj former practically corroborated tho testl- UHB inony of his wife and the nowspaper man MB told of Mrs. Curtls's conduct wlillo sho uH9 had been living In Ogden. The con- RH troversy over possession of tho children. B it is said, Is largely due to the fact that HH they will eventually come Into possession BHD "f a small piece of properly in Topeka. |