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Show jHIGH COURT ENDS WOMEN'S STRUGGLE 1 FOR BABY IRENE TORONTO. Ont., Nov. 18. The Inst resources upon which Mrs. Frederick Matters, of Chicago, pinned her hope of regaining possession pos-session of "Bahy Irene," claimed by two mothers was exhausted here today when tho appellant di- Islon of the supreme court upheld up-held a decision of the lower court awarding the child to Margaret Ryan of Ottawa. By the same process of law the child was excluded from falling heir lo nearly a third of a million dollars which would have been hers as daughter of the rich American. Am-erican. Ever since the two women, Mrs. Matters and Margaret Ryan, were Inmates of Mlserlcordla hospital th tight over "Baby Irene'' has raed In the courts Both had been mothers, but only one child had lived. Months of litigation, with both women claiming the living child, resulted in the decision of Justice Lennox last December that a substitution sub-stitution had taken place and that Margaret Ryan wus really the mother of the Infant girl on |