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Show STRANGE ACTION OE A WOMAN CIAI1NC TWO CHILDREN At the instance and request of Mr. and Mrs Edward Nicholson and to quiet a wordy expression of differen ces between Mrs. Nicholson and hr mother, Mrs. Ruella P. Curtis, at the union depot yesterday afternoon, Sheriff DeYine detained Mrs Curtis from going to Salt Lake with two small children, a girl and a boy, claimed by Mrs Nicholson. Mrs. Curtis and the children were taken to the sheriff's office and sub sequently induced to accompany At toruey David Jensen to his home for the night It was at first thought to be a case of attempted kidnaping, but upon inquiry found to be purely a matter for the civil division of the courts, as both parties 6howed adoption adop-tion papers for the children. Possession Pos-session being considered nine pointt, in law, Mrs. Curtis, the grandmother, has the advantage today, but Attorney Attor-ney Chez, who has been employed by the Nicholson people began habeas corpus proceedings in the district court today and the same is to be heard Saturday. Last fall Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson came to Ogden with the children and took up quarters at the Colonial roum iug house and on the same day, only a few hours later, Mrs Curtis came and was given quarters by Mr. and Mrs Nicholson in the same rooms Since that time there has been more or less friction between the parties. Mrs. Curtis claims that Mrs. Nlchol son is the mother of the two children, RSella and Albert, aged 9 and 5 years but that Mr. Nicholson is not the father. fa-ther. She claims also that Mrs. Nicholson gave up the children to her in Topeka. Kansas, where letters of adoption were issued. Subsequently, nowever, .Mrs. lur tls says, Mrs. Nicholson fraudulently gained possession of the children through some form of court proceedings proceed-ings and came to Utah with them. She followed and has lived with th? family in Ogden since the arrival Both parties have claimed the children chil-dren and considerable trouble has occurred between them. Mr. Nichol son ha6 paid the room rent all the time, while Mrs. Curtis has sought aid from charitable institutions and she was furnished money by the board ot county commissioners to pay her tare to Salt Lake. Since arriving in Og den, the proprietor of the Colonial says Mr Nicholson has been working at his trade as a horseshoer and Mrs. Nicholson has also had employment. Mrs. Curtis advises the county at torney that Mrs. Nicholson is eager to regain possession of the children to get control of certain property in Kansas which came to Mrs. Curtis through an estate of her mother and which she placed in the names of the children under the ndvise of a lawyer in Topeka. She thinks there is no other reason for Mrs. Nicholson seek ing the children as abe abandoned them some time ago. Mr and Mrs. Nicholson claim that they are capa ble of caring for the children but that Mrs. Curtis is not. Mrs. Curtis at times acts strangely. strange-ly. Two months ago she called at the Standard office and related all her troubles, telling the family history-She history-She said her daughter has had four husbands; that the children have been repeatedly kidnaped by Mr. and MrB. Nicholson, and she had followed them from Omaha to Los Angeles and back to Salt Lake and Ogden; and, finally, there had been a recoucllia tlon and all were living in the same rooms She had a letter from the Denver Post congratulating her on re covering the children. |