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Show ICASE OF ALLEGED SUBSTITUTION Tribune: Which of two little girls, both somewhat under ten years of age, is to be recognized by tho law as Phyllis Mabel Greenland now rests with Judge G. G. Armstrong of the Third district court for determination. determin-ation. Arguments In the habeas corpus Greenland against Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Burkhart, grandparents of his little lit-tle daughter, wero concluded by the opposing attorneys yesterday afternoon. after-noon. Because of the critical illness of Mrs. Burkhart from heart trouble, It was agreed that the court could later lat-er consider a deposition from her. The family physician gave warning yesterday morning that any attempt to obtain the deposition at that time might be dangerous for his patient. During the afternoon of eloquent pleas made by the attorneys the two little girls were in the courtroom. Beside Be-side Greenland sat the child that seven sev-en years ago was given to him as that of his dead wife, daughter of the Burkharts. As she grew weary of the proceedings, she often fondled the hair of the man who has repudiated her as a foundling foisted upon him. She found amusement in searching through the pockets of his vest for playthings and was quite indifferent to what the hearing was all about so long as the man whom she has known as "Daddie" was within reach of her caressing little hands. Across the room, between Mr, Burkhart Burk-hart and his daughter, Mrs. Daisy B. Black, sat the other little girl the child that the Burkharts claim was a foundling and the child that Greenland Green-land claims is his, kept from him at the time that the other was foisted upon him. Her hair Is slightly darker dark-er than that of the other child and she is plumper and taller. The eyes of both the golden and brown-haired ones are blue. They might easily be siEters, yet one of them must, according ac-cording to the evidence, be the real Phyllis Mabel Greenland and the other the child adopted from the orphans' home and day nursery at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kan., by Mrs. Black. Mrs. Black testified that the child now with the Burkharts, the darker, sturdier one, is the child of her adoption adop-tion that she brought to live with her parents and Mabel's grandparents when the rail Mabel Greenland was given up to her father, Mrs. Black taking the child to Mr. Greenland at Grand Junction at the time. The entire en-tire case hinges on the question as to whether Mrs. Black delivered to Greenland seven years ago the real granddaughter of the Burkharts or the child from the orphans' home. The grandchild came into the keeping of the grandparents originally shortly after birth because of the death of Mrs. Greenland, their daughter. The demand for it was made by Greenland Green-land about two years later. Only recently re-cently did he become suspicious that a trick had been practiced upon him and endeavored by process of law to find out the truth. |
