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Show deputy to mm KIOKO CHlCD Boy Stolen by Mother From Grandmother's Home Located. Kidnaped from the home of his grandmother grand-mother by, his, mother ami whisked away to Nevada Inst week, Frank Fuel Wheel-house, Wheel-house, 5 years of age. is to be brought back by process of law. The boy is a son of Bertram H. Wheel-house, Wheel-house, who is in the army, having' been drafted July CS. 1018. "When the father donned the uniform of his country, he left his little son in tho o.ijstodv of the child's grandmother. Mrs. Sarah Jl. Wheelhouse. of this cirj-. The boy's parent s were divorced May 10. IfMS. The mother has married again, the warrant for her arrest on a charge if kidnaping being against Florence Sou Ins. Da st Wednesday Mrs. Souies was in Salt Lake. She called to see her little son. who bad been given into tho custody of the father al the time of the divorce, and asked tp be allowed to la lie him down town and buy1 him some Christinas presents. Mrs. "Wheelhouse consented readily. She has not seen the child since. The sheriff's office tra.ced Mrs. Soules and- the child to Montello, Nov., whore Mrs. .Soules lives with her second husband, hus-band, a randier. This was after a bench warrant had been issued for her appearance appear-ance before .Judge J. Douis Frown of the Third district court to show cause why she should not be ad.iudced in contempt of the court for interfering with the child and ignoring the court's order as to his custody. She could not be found here and the t degra ph was brought into use, with the discovery that she had returned to her home in Nevada and taken the child. To make it possible to extradite her, a complaint charging her with kidnaping was immediately filed and a warrant issued. is-sued. Depot y Sheriff Joseph Raleigh is now in Nevada. His instructions a re to permit -the woman to remain where she is if she gives up the child to be returned to the grandmother. Otherwise, measures mea-sures toward extradition of Mrs. Soules will be taken. Since the boy's fat her is expected I o ho mustered out of .frvice any day tow. Mrs. Wheelhouse is fearful that he may return to discover that the child has been stolen and is much perturbed for fcar that she will not have the lad back again before his soldier daddy returns from the war. Should M rs. Soules give un the hoy without a l"tral fight, Deputy Sheriff Raleigh should be bade here with him by tomorrow night. |