Show i T Kentuckian Seeks Brother Who Disappeared in Salt Lake Jail The case caso of a man dropping from sight between the tho cogs of Utah legal machinery was brought to tho the attention of ot County ClerIc Clerk William J. J Korth Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day day- in receipt o of a n letter from froma a Kentuckian asking help In lo locating locating lo- lo cating eating his brother E. E J. J Teed ticket agent for the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Lexington Ky asked information tion about Harold P. P Teed who the tho letter Jetter says was arrested in Salt Lake Lako City eight or nine years ago on a charge of oC his own daughter Tho The letter Jetter says Harold Teed and his divorced wife wIte Cecilo Johnson John son Teed had been in considerable consider able ablo litigation over their daughter daugh daugh- ter Mary Ellen Teed then 7 years cars old Harold Teed reed was accused of ot the girl from Ely Nev Nov the letter sa says s Harold Teed got as far as Salt Lake Lako Cil City where he was taken from the train and his brother thinks he ma may be in prison prison prison-or or dead Money was sent to him but never a word was heard from roni him Court records tell teU an Incomplete Incomplete incomplete his history tOr of Harold Teeds Teed's experiences experiences ex ex- here represented by two petitions for tor writs of ot habeas corpus One was filed lied December 3 1927 by Ceclie Cecile reed Teed Taylor laylor against Harold Teed and Clifford Patton Patton Patton Pat- Pat ton then sheriff sherIf of ot Salt Lake Lako county seeking to regain custody custody custody cus cus- tody of oC Mary Ellen Teed It re records records re- re cords that the Teeds obtained a divorce in White Pine county Nev Ne NeIn in August 1927 giving the father custody of at the child but butr r with the court retaining jurisdiction tion of ot the case in the interest of ot tho the general welfare of ot the tho child chUd whom Teed Is prohibited from re removing removing removing re- re moving from the courts court's tion On November 21 1927 Cecilo Cecile Teed filed tiled a n petition with the court seeking to modi modify the di divorce divorce divorce di- di vorce decree to regain custody of oC the child It was then Teed fled only to bo be nabbed in Salt Lake Lako City on a fugitive warrant and lodged in the county jail While Teed was In jail the the sheriff sher sher- Itt iff took custody of ot the child chUd keep keep- ing her at his residence across the street from the courthouse Thus it was necessary for Mrs Teed to name the sheriff sherif in the petition for tor the tho writ The petition was returnable be before before be- be fore foro District Judge Morris 1 L. L Ritchie December 6 6 1927 A continuance continuance continuance con con- was granted but on December December De De- cember 15 the record ends abruptly abrupt abrupt- ly with tho the succinct Case dismissed The second p petition for a n writ of habeas corpus was filed December De cember 13 1927 by Teed against tho the sheriff an and his jailers in which Teed sought his own re release rc- rc lease Jease alleging he had been detained detained de de- de- de tamed without cause in that tho the f extradition requisition signed by bythe bythe the governor of Nevada was void That petition was returnable before District Judge Chris Mathison Mathi Mathi- son on December 14 H 1927 but that record ends without revealIng revealIng reveal- reveal Ing log much snuck more than did the other It says Teed Writ U dismissed Teed Feed remanded remand remand- ed to custody of the sheriff Thus the question still sUII remains Where is Harold Teed 1 I |