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Show FIGHT FORCHILDREN SETTLED J. F. GREENLAND LOSES CASE CHILDREN' PRINCIPALS IN LEGAL BATTLE. On the left is Phyllis Mabel Manning, who it was contended is in reality Phyllis Mabel Greenland. The district court decided, however, that Phyllis Mabel Greenland is the girl on the right. & Two Little Girls Unaware of Fight Over Their Identities. BECATJyE the court's decision yesterday yes-terday afternoon was against James Francis Greenland, a littlo girl with blond hair and blue eyos may continue to call him "Baddy," and another little girl with blue eyes and brown hair may remain in the home that she lias found with Mr. and Mrs. ' J. M. Burkart of 237 C street, .both ! unaware of the bitterness of the legal battle that has been waged over their j ident it ies. J In tho eyes of the law, by the decision I of Judge George G. Armstrong of the I Third district court, the littlo blond girl is the real Phyllis Mabel Greenland. Tho contention of Greenland that the child was one from an orphans' home, foisted upon him seven years ago by his sister-in-law as his daughter, in order that the grandparents, the Burlc-arts, Burlc-arts, might keep the real grandchild, was not sustained -by the evidence in the case, according to the decision of the court. Sister-in-law Pleased. The failure of Greenland's habeas corpus proceedings in an effort to get i possession of the child living with the Bnrkarts has delighted his sister-in-law, Mrs. Norman P. Black, whom he accused ac-cused of having worked the substitution upon him. Mrs. Black declared that for her the decision was really a victory over her husband, Norman P. Black, a wealthy man of Cheyenne, Wvo., who she alleges; was the instigator of: the legal fight. Since last March, according to Mrs. Black, she and her husband have .been estranged. While upon the witness stand she intimated her conviction that her husband was at the bottom of the affair af-fair as matter of spite against her. After the decision was rendered yesterday yes-terday she frankly told her view of the case. "My husband told me, after we had separated and before this suit was started, start-ed, that, he had heard me boast of having hav-ing exchanged children on Mr. Greenland Green-land and given him my adopted child instead of his own daughter, ' ' said Mrs. Black. "The court has now decided de-cided the truth of that." Change Testimony. Just before the decision was given in tho ease late yesterday afternoon, two sisters of the child living with tho Bnrkarts, Mrs. Mary Kirk and Miss Nellie Nel-lie Manning, admitted to the court that they were not sure that they had testified testi-fied correctly in denying that the Burkart Burk-art child is their sister. During the hearing they denied that she was their sister, though their own mother identified identi-fied her as her child, whom she had placed in an orphans' home in Atchison, Kan., and whom Mrs. Black had later adopted. Mrs. Kirk testified that her father had told her that she would never lack for money if she denied that the Burkart child was her sister. She frankly frank-ly stated her belief, however, that if her father got any money out of the case he would keep it. The Mani.ir.gs were brought here from Kansas to testify in the case, the mother for the defense and the daughters for the prosecution. The story of how the lives and identities of the two little girls became so entangled was brought out piece by piece in the examination of witnesses. From it Attorney Thomas Marioneaux of the firm of Marioneaux, Scott & Bock wove an argument that re-suited re-suited in the court's decision. Story Is Simple. In brief, the story is simple. The real Phyllis Mabel Greenland was born in Sommerset. Colo., Peeember 0, 1900. Her mother died shortly afterward and the infant was turned over by her father to the care of her grandparents. Phyllis Mabel Manning Burkart, as I she is known, was born at Atchison, I Kan., Julv 25, 1905. She was placed in 1 : : the orphans' home for soldiers' children there Dy her mother as Mabel Manning. The mother testified that she had been driven to this from necessity of earning her own living because of not receiving sufficient support from her husband. While in Kansas City on business, Mrs. Norman Black went to the orphans ' home at Atchison in search of a child to adopt. She selected baby Mabel Manning, Man-ning, who was then about 4 years of age. She brought the child home with her and a few months afterward Greenland asked that his own child be sent to him. Mrs. Black claims that . she left her adopted child with her parents, the Burl-arts, to take the place of their own grandchild and took Mr. Greenland's daughter, the real Phyllis Mabel Manning, Man-ning, to her father at Grand .Junction. Greenland contended that sho switched the children that the Burkarts might retain re-tain possession of their grandchild. To add to the confusion, the adopted child was called by the name of the little granddaughter, the grandparents, according accord-ing to Mr.- Burkart, adding the name Phyllis because of their fondness of it as that given their granddaughter by her mother. |