Show CAN NOT DEED AWAY CHILDREN Senator Tillman Loses Possession ol Granddaughters and Sensational Case is Ended Columbus S C Granting the mothers plea for the custody of her wo little children the supremo court of South Carolina on Tuesday handed hand-ed down a decision in favor of Mrs D It Tlllman Jr who sought to recover re-cover her two little girls Douschka Pickens Tlllman and Sarah Stark Till man from tho posseslson of Senator and Mrs n It iillman Tho decision Is based on tho ground that the deed of transfer hy H H rillman Jr was Invalid as applied to the mother tho act under which It was made being In violation of the stato and federal constitution Tho court therefore granted the application applica-tion for habeas corpus If the statute Is to be construed as giving tho father arbitrary power to Iced away the custody of his children limn court held the law Is an infringement infringe-ment of the rights and privileges ns cured In the state constitution and f similarly In the fourteenth amendment amend-ment to the constitution of the United Unit-ed States In 1903 Lucy Douglas granddaughter granddaugh-ter of Governor P W Plckens war governor of South Carolina and daughter of Mrs Lucy Holcombc Plckens connected with the best families fam-ilies of the state was married to Benjamin Ben-jamin II Tlllman Jr eldest son of Senator fill man In December 1908 they parted young Mrs Tillman alleging 1 al-leging that her husband drank and mistreated her Last February there was a reconciliation which lasted until un-til December 1909 when young Mrs Tlllman became ill in Washington Hardly had she begun her convalescence convales-cence she alleges when her husband under pretense of taking the little girls to see their grandmother carried ¬ car-ried them to Trenton S C and transferred them to his parents |