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Show CHILDREN IE TAKEN FROM MOTHER'S. CARE Tragedy and Burlesque Make Up Busy Calendar in Juvenile Court. Tragedy and burlesque made up a busy calendar in the juvenile court yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Annie McKee was found to be not a suitable person to have th'e custody of her two minor children, as a result of hearing on charges preferred by her husband, hus-band, Arthur McKee. In retort, Mrs. McKee Mc-Kee filed suit in the Third district court for divorce on ground of cruelty. .Finally, Castle Child, 16 years of age, a youth who testified that he saw Mrs. McKee smoke a cigarette on a Saltair train, turned with blows of his fist in answer to the upbraidings of Mrs. Annie TavJor and Mrs. James Buckland, mother and sister of Mrs. McKee, for having testified against her. The altercation occurred oc-curred in the main corridor of the city and county building, after those having part in the McKee case had left the ' juvenile courtroom in a body. Blood spurted from a cut In Mrs. Taylor's lip, inflicted by the boy's fist. I-Ier daughter escaped with a slap on the jaw. Mrs. Pearl Barton admitted on the witness wit-ness stand that the father of her child was another man than her husband,. Karl Barton, and then she scorned her husband's hus-band's proffer to forgive and forget. William Wil-liam C. Bartlett failed in an effort to have his four children taken from the custody of their mother. Both" T. C. Morrisee and the mother of his two children were adjudged unfit to have custody of them when they admitted to the court that they had lived together unmarried for eight years, the mother of the children subsequently marrying another an-other man, with the result that Morrisee brought an action to take the children from her. |