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Show LEGAL BUTTLE IS OB FDR CUSTODY DF A CHILD Another act n the drama of real life was presented in the district court before Judge Arthur E. Pratt this morning, when Ihe mother, father, sister sis-ter and brother of Florence Auston, fighting to regain the possession of Charles Auston, Iwelve months of age, testified that she was not a fit per.-on I to care for the child At the conelu- , sion of the hearing the court took the matier under advisement. The hearing was upon the potilion for a writ of habeas corpus filed a number of days ago in the district court in an attempt to secure posses- ; sion of the baby boy, who is in tne rustody of J. II rampbell, Jr., a brth- ler of Mrs. Austen According to the testimony at this i morning's hearing. Mrs. Ausion, upon securing the divorce from her husband, was awarded the custody of the two rhildren. a girl of five nnd a boy of twelve months The girl is in the keeping of the grandmother in Ca'i-fomla Ca'i-fomla Mrs. Auston's mother took the bo. When her daughter refused to give her mother adoption papers, the grandmother said she did not wnt the boy because she would be afiaid of becoming attached to the child and then tbe daughter might take the boy from her. The son, J. H. Campbell, Jr . then took the Auston boy. He asked his sister to sign consent to his adopting the boy and the sister r-tused, r-tused, demanding the possession of her son and the brother refused The mother sought assistance of the law in regaining possession of her son. rw-k |