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Show ADD COMPLICATIONS TO BURKHART CASE Father of Girl Declares Brother-in-law Informed Him of Substitution t of Child. Dlsoatches from Denver last night added add-ed a new quirk and introduced another character In the legal battle here and in Atchison, Kan., over the contention of James F. Greenland that Mr. and Mrs. J M. Burkhart of Salt Lake, the parents of his dead wife, had palmed off a child from an orphanage on him as his daughter daugh-ter and that the grandparents had kept the daughter themselves. Greenland now alleges that Norman Black of Cheyenne, divorced husband of another daughter of the Burkharts, informed in-formed him that an orphan had been substituted for Greenland's daughter when, in 1911, Greenland took possession of the child away from Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart. Mrs. Black had adopted the orphan from the Soldiers' orphanage in Atchison in 1909. The orphan's name was Mabel Manning. Mrs. Black's name was Mrs. Dairy Morris at that time. She later married Black, who is a wealthy lumberman. lumber-man. Their married life was not congenial con-genial and they separated. Now Greenland Green-land says that Black informed him that Mrs. Black had told him that she and her parents, the Burkharts, had substituted substi-tuted the Manning orphan for Greenland's daughter. |