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Show I' Ml AND CHILD DISAPPEARED, ALARMING AW IDAHO TOWN Found in Ogden, Where the Father Was Arrested After Dragging Drag-ging the Baby Through the Streets and Into the Bar, Rooms of the Gity Grandmother Rushes Down From the North to Recover the Little One and Take It Home. Ifj. Ellswcll of Preston, Idaho, who Was booked, as John Doe yesterday on a charge. of drunkenness, was arraigned ar-raigned in the municipal court this morning and pleaded guilty. Ells-well Ells-well was arrested on lower Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street by Patrojman James Hearn. He was dragging his two-year-old son along the street and into the saloons. When given leave to make his Statement, he" said that .he had come from a dry town and when he got in Ogden, .he proceeded to "lick'er" up, Iw unout Having a proper gauge on his capacity. Following this statement, the judge said that. it . had been found necessary to have restrictions even in a, wet town and a man had no rigKt Jto 'take. more, than he could stand." He then asked the officers about the case. Patrolman Hearn tojd the circumstances circum-stances of the arrest, saying that people peo-ple on the street had complained of the man carrying or rattier dragging the child around' with him in his drunken state. He followed up the case' and first-saavEilswel.l in a sa-; loon .on Wall, avenue, with the child sitting on the bar. He finally got him out of. the saloon, after standing for considerable abuse, hut was forced to arrest him later, as he continued con-tinued on his carousal and abuse of people on the street and in business houses. ... iy . ' ' Desk Sergeant Hagbart Anderson testified that the man had refused to give his name, but that relatives in Preston had telephoned the department, depart-ment, making it known and asking if & anything had been seen of him and $ the child. Me answered in the affirm- K atiye and asked what they desired ' done. The party on the other end R of the. wire, whose name he did not JR learn, answered: x. "Knock the man in 'the head, but ; - take care of the child." ' t Later In the day, he received a j V telephone call from the grandmother ! cf the child, -Mrs. Kate Carter of : Preston, who Informed him that Ells- 1 & well had left his young wife with a new born babe and had gone away with the other child without skying a ; fe' word and that the people of the town ' K- had been searching for them ever if-: had been searching for them ever W since they were missed. She also .. aaid that she would come down from a Preston to take the little boy home ! W today. ; & After hearing this testimony, Judge ; g Reeder took the" case under advlsc- i C ment. ; W; Mrs. Carter arrived in the city r shortly after adjournment of court I and was taken to Mrs. Anderson, who has kept the boy since the father r was arrested. .In .talking of the- mat- ' fer. s'he sard thafEHswell had period s' ical drinking bouts and that he treat ed his wife badly. The family were living over the postofflce at Preston, she said, and Thursday night, Ells- - well took the boy down stairs as though he intended to get some household supplies and that was the S- last heard of the two until they vere ' reported as having been found in Og- - den. She will take the child home '.. this afternoon. |