| Show 1 t 0 tR i J i A The r R 1 a ar aJ Lord Ampthill's A nils nil's Fortune Swept Away Beautiful Lady known Lady tR R Russells Russell's as the dream ill ill-f ill fated baby little b by abe abe- son be- be Russell Disgraced graced and Forced to t Earn Her Living 6 cause lion tion she b bf of f makes make the efi surprising of hia fatherhood esplana- esplana explanation d i L i a as saD a All res S a k A il a t 4 1 l hl a t tc f tk- tk i ij j v vr r rP 4 5 i i ti 4 t i Lr hK 1 n x I Lt iw aw i r yh r k s a A w t ab aby aby abW abw y y W f n a aa a t f a a r tM i S t r pi a 4 a ft- ft t k 5 vat rY k kf q f k kd tf d Yf c rr w co cor Lady Russell whose husband recently divorced her but who declares she r will never give up the fight to establish her child childs child's right tet td call the Hon L John Hugo Russell daddy and to inherit the Ampthill baronetcy i N REAL life as well as in the movies IN and the story books the coming of ofa ofa of- of ofa I g a baby IS ie usually the cause of wide wide- widespread widespread widespread spread happiness Joyous pride and sat sat- satI satisfaction sat satisfaction I and high ambitions for the I thoI thuds future seem to radiate from the tho cradle of a newborn infant as surely as rays 11 s of light and warmth from the noon noon- noonday noonday noonday day sun But there thero are e exceptions to this as asto asto asto to e every ery rule and add over in England right now is to be found probably as strikIng a one as the world world has hils ever seen There is a n baby whose hose coming into the world orld has brought only the greatest un- un unhappiness happiness un-happiness happiness to everybody around him J Cn tho the mother who ho presses him so fondly to her heart is plunged into the most agonizing distress by the very fact of her little sons son's existence What makes the case ease all the more pa- pa pathetic pa pathetic and unusual is that besides bring bring- bringing bringing ing mg disgrace bitter hatred and financial ruin to his mother and her family as aswell aswell well as to the family into which she married this sturdy English Inglish boy seems very verj unlikely to get much happiness out of life for himself As fe he e grows old enough to understand the distressing circumstance circumstances surround surround- surrounding surrounding ing his birth he lie can cm hardly fail fall to feel the full force of the baneful influence which has already wrecked the tho happi happi- happiness happiness happiness ness of his mother and her husband and so many other men and w women omen This ill-fated ill child is John Hugo Rus Rus- Russell Russell Russell sell known wherever newspapers are read as the dream baby Although not yet two years jears old he has already been the tho center of two ot o tho the most extraordInary extraordinary lawsuits la ever e tried in the Eng Eng- Eng Eng- English English lish courts When little John Hugo was born his mothers mother's husband the lIon Hon John Hugo Russell eldest son and heir of Lord Ampthill promptly brought suit for dl- dl diVorce di divorce vorce He denied the tho fatherhood of the tho child and contended that the agreement entered into at tha time timo he married and Hulme-and and one ODO which he swore had never been made broken broken made It Impossible for him to have been th boye father He named E J Mayer Mayor an American formerly of Cincinnati as co co- co respondent co-respondent respondent When the case caso camo to trial beautiful young Lady Russell took the tho witness stand and revealed with a frankness that tilled filled tho the courtroom with blushes the 1 most intimate to details of her married life 1 And the tho climax of her testimony left the tho judge and jury and her husbands husband 1 attorneys quite dazed and breathless She explained her husbands husband's inability to believe himself the father of her son non by declaring that ha hI was addicted to the habit of walking sleep-walking It was while he was as in m one of somnambulistic trances she sho maintained that the agree agree- agreement agreement m ment nt made at the time of their marriage had been broken broten Thus b by his mothers mother's own words un- un unhappy un unhappy happy little John Hugo Russell was christened the dream baby baby-a baby a namo which will doubtless cling to him all his life and spoil whatever cha chalce ico he might other ise have havo for happiness After long deliberation the tho jury found Itself unable to agree on the truth or the tho untruth of Mrs Sirs Russells Russell's surprising con con- contention con contention and a new trial was ordered This has bas now ended in m a victory for tho the husband husband He is granted the divorce ho he sought and his wife is found guilty of miscon miscon- misconduct misconduct misconduct duct with an unidentified man man-E man E J Mayer the farmer formel being relieved of all responsibility in th the mat mat- matter matter ter The chubby cheeked dream baby IS declared illegitimate and not entitled to succeed to the Ampthill baronetcy But this does not end the matter for beautiful Mrs Russell will not accept the courts court's decision Although the evidence evi- evi evidence evi evidence dence introduced by her husband at the two trials showed her to bo be one ono of the most frivolous of the tho feminine butter butter- butterflies butterflies flies that have become so numerous since the Will war she does not seem to be at all lacking in mother lovo and stout hearted stout loyalty to her flesh and blood righting Fighting her hubband's husbands suits has taken every penny she had and left her heavIly in debt She has bas been forced to open a 0 dressmaking shop to earn enough to support herself and her son Yet Mrs Russell declares she will find the money to appeal appell from the jurys jury's re- re recent recent re recent cent decision and to fight as long as IlS she Ines for her sons son's rights If sho she faIls t to receive a favorable verdict by the time the tho boy reaches readies his majority nineteen j sears ears from now she sho will take tako the tho case easo to the House of Lords and ask that august tribunal to declare him the rightful heir to the Ampthill title This Is Mrs Russells Russell's duty to her eonas son eon as she sees it but many think she sha could do him the tho greatest kindness only by abandoning tho fight for what hat she be- be believes believes be believes to be his rIghts Even tho the win Win- WinDIng winning rung DIng of the to tho the baronetcy sill ill they believe never atone for the tho cloud which the retrial of tho the suit Will cast over pIs his ila life But tho the dream baby baby's own gloomy future and his hi mothers mother's dl distress tress and financial straits form only part of the st staggering amount of unhappiness his hUI birth has brought Lord Ampthill's fam- fam on Account of the Chubby Chubb Faced Youngster s i Y M t Y Whose Father Father- Fatherhood i- i y W V v AJ hood Is So k is 1 1 Strangely pr I Disputed r rf n r y l 1 Ily ly finds Itself almost as badly off of as f T I Mrs Russell Russel e c Lord Ampthill has lias spent mere mare than I on his sons son's two divorce actions J and this has hu made mado such serious inroads In I s on his fortune fortuno that lie ho has been forced A Ato I to dispose of all nil his motor cars cut his i staff other of drastic servants economies economiCS right in h two 0 and malo makes ro p e ea a tie tier r 9 V I Iother During the tho first trial Lord Ampthill 3 mac q wt H and the tho members of his family rode to and from the courthouse in a luxurious limousine emblazoned with the ances- ances ancestral 4 coat of arms and driven by a n liv hv liv- liv i s y cried ened chauffeur But tho the second trial v vi v a aoka a s saw them making the trips in a bus a w sw E e rr r rs s where they had to rub shoulders with the most vulgar of wage earners If Mrs Russells Russell's dressmaking buss busi- Hess prospers and she can make enough ri on oney ey to keep her promise to fight for her sons son's rights for the tho next nest nineteen i years it if necessary it can moan nothing less than financial ruin for Lord Ampt Ampt- L hlll r t t ra d a ww- ww wwi r resen Only one faintly faintly silvered lining cnn can esen e the most confirmed optimists see seo m III inthe l lr the tho dark cloud that hovers bovers oVer over the era era- cra cradle die dle of the dream baby And Ard Andi i this Dt ri r N s tr this is the fact that it is S m- m in inspiring A Ari psychologists and other sprang scientists s v ir s scientists to give more moro careful careful study to the tho interesting in- in interesting subject of sore SOM 4 i w t Plans are already un un- un raa at der se sev sea v der way to subject sleepwalkers sleep sleep- a walkers to many search- search searching ing v J-v iv n 1 mg scientific tests Par Par- Particular Particular titular efforts will be made to a s c c crt r t n a i n s sr r rd as yea Y whether they are as Mrs Russell has con con- const con con- contended contended st sir sira a tended often completely re e ra 4 p r rd d J JJ J ray y as oblivious of things they dr az ky have done while roar roar- roam roam- roamy 4 y i A I ing mg about in their slumber slum- slum i iV x her ber V s Somnambulism iS iSAi I is behe believed ed to boan bean bo be rf an an i imp imperfect in p e r I fee e c t y- y K fe at form for form of sleep ina in m a t which lIch the muscular mus mus- muscular o og g F S n i A s f cular clear apparatus A 4 s ti and tho the portion s sy y t er i A of the brain rain controlling conr con- con conf f i 1 S SQ Q sal e JRe aVa u w bit r T ee v vu trolling it remain f as dy a awake although i yX by the tho t h e intellectual V V W g t gy 0 y o a ar fa faculties cuI tie r s are j buried in slum slum- slumber r ber her In man many Y Ya a vat r r t SR M cases some of the t fie sense organs also iM are awake and the walker sleep may see and avoid objects In his pathor path or may hear and ans answer er questions These active dreams in most of the cases recorded are totally forgotten on awakening Medical history furnishes a number of instances which would seem to sup sup- support support sup support port the surprising contention Mrs Rus Rus- Russell Russell Russell sell put forward to e explain plain tho the disputed fatherhood of her son One of the tho most remarkable of these is that of Charles Cawley a young man living in Home Home- Homestead Homestead stead Pa who was charged with bru- bru brutally brutally bru brutally tally murdering with mth an ax his mother and four of his young brothers and sisters sis sis- sisters sis sisters Cawley was saved from the gallows by the testimony of o eminent physicians who ho swore to their belief bellef that he com com- committed committed these horrible murders while asleep without any realization of what ho bo was doing and without retaining any recollection of his deeds deed Tho The evidence that saved Charles Caw Caw- Caw leys leya life showed that he slept with Ills his elder brother James in a 11 room just across a hall from that occupied by the mother and five younger children On the night of the murder James was awakened by piteous moans from his mothers mother's room He lie reached out his arm to rouse his brother and when l- l ly found HH The Hon John Hugo Russ Russell elI who denies bein being the dream baby's baby daddy with his aristocratic but now very hard up parents Lord and Lady Ampthill ho was not there lie bo no rolled out of the bed op on tho side where Charles had been sleeping p lg A Ai As he stood there In the frightened by the sounds ho he heard beard hI ha saw Charles coming out of the tho room across the hall balI brandishing an ax ax Charles Charlei walked straight to tho the bed crYIng Oh Ohl Ohi Burglars robbers I He struck tho the pillow where Jamess James's head had been lying a moment before several vicious blows with the ax When James James cried out In alarm Charles turned the ax on him inflicting a slight wound on the tho hand Before Charles could deal a more dead dead- deadly deadly deadly ly blow his brother grappled with him and took away the ax Then holdIng the tho trembling youth with one band hand ho hI managed to pull on his clothes and lead his captive out of the house On the tha way ho peered into his mothers mother's room and saw the splotches of blood on walls vails and floor por but he dared not go In to answer the piteous appeals of her and the tho children chil chIl- chIldren children dren for help for fear tear of what Charles might mi ht do The latter was still talking excitedly about burglars and James fearing he had gone suddenly insane decided he would better take him to the town lock lock- lockup lockup up On the way Charles seemed to to bo be entirely insensible of his surroundIngs but now and then he would make frantic efforts to free treo himself from his hili brothers brother's grip I IA IA I IA A physician who was called to exam exam- examine examine ine Charles at the jail ail pronounced him bim still asleep If I IJ was an hour and a half before ho he was fas was able to talk rationally nally His first question was why on earth lie be had been dragged from bed and locked up l lAll All AU that Charles Cawley could remember re- re remember re remember member of the tha nights night's events was of having been awakened by the sound ofa ofa of a door being opened He lIe tried to arouse James rames and falling g to do BO so jumped d c r rd z ca Aa a 74 A t- t from bed and went sent out into the tho hall Downstairs rs ho he hoa found nothing wrong but while looking around he hey t thought ho hG heard one of his sisters cry out and started 1 hurriedly upstairs j He remembered being sur surprised sur- sur suri i y to see Ins his mothers mother's y door open and a light burn I p ing in the room He heard no sound but noticed blood on the stairs He vaguely recalled seeing an ax lying on tho the floor and picking It ItI I up With the tha ax in hid hi hand he returned to his own room and said he touched James very lightly with the tho sharp edge edgo to try to awaken him He had a fairly fauly clear memory of his brothers brother's grappling with him and of their struggling on the way to tho jail But he be strenuously denied having been I asleep while all al this was going on or having dealt the tho vIcious blows that killed five of tho the family and nd seriously wounded a 8 sixth If It Charles Cawley could have com com- committed committed committed these murders in his bis sleep with with- without without out realizing what bat ho he was wis ws doing and without retaining any recollection of oflus his lus deeds why may not the explanation of the Hon John Hugo Russells Russell's father hood father hood to which Russell tv is t ice swore in court be the truth That T That is shat bat many will wIIl wonder Although the jurys jury's verdict verdict at the latest trial was against her public sym sym- sympathy sympathy pathy in England has been very strong strong- strongly strongly ly in Lady Russells Russell's favor When she stepped into into her automobIle after the verdict had been een rendered a great crowd cheered her There were many shouts I courage of Tough hick P your jour up and Dont give up up the tho fight This last advice is what shat hat Lady Russell declares she intends intends to follow fellow I f fi fL 1 j I i 1 t J L |
