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Show OBLAKINCHlfffiOHEIB I FORMER ACTRESS FOILED IN i EFFORT TO JAIL YOUNG WOMAN I ON CHARGE Of KIDNAPING BOY I Grandson of Armour Packing Company Vice President and Fiance of Heir's Father Detained by Ogden Police Until Divorced Wife Loses 1 Fight Before Illinois State Officials. AFTER having !"-en eld aim' in the- nlrn city jail fiver nij.'tit mi a charge of kidnaping, Miss Frances AfacLane, of Chicago, 'J5 arid pretty, was released this afternoon. George B. Robhins, 3 years of age, grandson of George B. Rob-Inns Rob-Inns of Chicago, for 35 years a vice president of Armour & Co., also was released t"lay. I Mivs MacLane was accused of kidnaping young Gfeoxge. Tho complaint was made in Chicago by George's mother, Mrs. Mary jj Robhins. n Cornier Follies actress. . Tnnnc rienre-e'fl mnther fnli1 the. HIH I Young George's mother told the ' I Chicago police that Miss MacLane v;;u taking the child out of the jurisdiction of tho Illinois court and she feared that the young woman, the child and the child's father were about to sail from San Francisco on a long cast- ill ern trip. The child's father is Cutler H Rob- wM bins, who obtained a divorce from the rH child's mother. The child's mother 111 told Chicago police that Miss Ma - I Lane was her former husband's flan- ORDERS FOR RELEASE. .Tust when things hegan to look ser- j lous Indeed for Miss MacLane, with H detectives reported on the way here to take bey and the boy back to Chicago. telegrams came announcing that th girl and child were to be freed. State authorities In Illinois refused to Issue requisition papers The state j officials declared that Mrs. Mary Rob- bin-: had no right to the child and the girl could not be held guilty of kid-Inaplng. kid-Inaplng. Chief of Police Jonathon Jones received re-ceived telegraph Instruction to release the two. But prior to the receipts of Information from Illinois that requl- j sitlon papers had been denied, Miss .Maclano had retained counsel in Ogden, Og-den, tho firm of Chez & Douglas. I RELEASE DELAYED. The lawyers had begun habeas corpus cor-pus proceedings to obtain the release of the two. The writ was served up-On up-On Chief Jones. This writ Instructed I him to have the two in Judge Kimball's Kim-ball's court this afternoon to show-cause show-cause why they should not be releas- jed. H Although the chief would have liked to release thorn at onco, this court or- i der made it necessary' for him to hold them until he could present them in court Both Miss Mae-Lane and the child were ordered released this afternoon ' by Judge James N. Kimball of the district court after bo had heard the H evidence. It appeared certain that the Judgo would order their release when tho facts were presented to him this afternoon. af-ternoon. I Meanwhile tho boy's father, Cutler ' Robbing, Is on his way to Ogden. ignorant ig-norant of the favorable turn affairs :. have taken He was prepared to put I up a stiff battle to get his son. I A happv reunion Is looked for when he steps eiff a Southern Pacific train I tonight. t'l TAKEN OFF TRAIN, Miss MacLane arrived in Ogden ev- U I terday morning at C:45 o'clock and V I was taken off the Overland limited by ft M the local police with the youngster (' Ml and taken to the city jail on advices H I of Chief of Detectives Hughes of Chi-icago. Chi-icago. i The telegram to the local polh i was as follows: "We hold a warrant for Frances MacLane on kidnaping charge, date of crime Jnn 24. this year. The com- Iplalnant Is Man" C. Bobbins. Misi MacLane is 25 years of age, five feet 11 two inches tall and weighs about 13" I 'pounds with bright reel hair. She wears o squirrel coat and has blu- I loyes. She has kidnaped bo. Georg" B Bobbins, with her. 3 ',5 years o? age, With lljrht brown eyes and hgiit h,ili She left here at 10.46 on the Milwaukee train No 19 yesterday. Ai- rest anel hold and wire " Wild, IU.MVI' EXTRADITION. Chief of Police Jonathon Jones im- H mediately sent the following reply to H the telegram: i I "Frances MacLane In custody. Alpo H the boy, George B. Bobbins. Come prepared She will fight extradition. ' The reply brought the following un- swer from Chief of Detectives Hughes at Chleuigo last night: ' llolfl Fram es MacLane and Georg B. Bobbins. Extradlt.on papers heln-; I H prepared with certified cops of tho H (Continued on Page Two) I FORMER ACTRESS FOILED EFFORT (Conilnncil from Page One) warrant and complaint In the mall. Officers Of-ficers leaving hero as soon as pos-alblf pos-alblf Book on a fujrltlve warrant If necessary to hold and advise. r.oth the law firm und the police were notified this morning from San Francisco that tho hoy's father accompanied ac-companied by hln attorneys had left San Francisco for Ogden and are ex-ected ex-ected to arrive here this evening on No. 10. 1 1 111 it I EE1 8 STORY. According to the facts as related by Cutler H Kobbins. the boy's father. fath-er. In a lonft distance telephone conversation con-versation between him and Chief Jones last night he secured a divorce from the mother two years ago in Chicago on the churgo of cruelty and drunkenness Mr. Kohblns said In his conversation conversa-tion with Chief Jones that the decree of divorce while It gave him the custody cus-tody of the child provided that the boy should be sent with a nurse to a designated spot In Qhloago twici weekly in order that the mother could see the child. Me said that to comply with the de-Ores de-Ores he had been providing a nurse to take charge of the child. The child sras kept in an apartment In Chicago. Miss MLM CALlM, At the city Jail this morning Miss MacLano showed no signs of nervousness nervous-ness when told of how events were shaping themselves and that she was facing a charge of kidnaping the child. She chatted with Mrs Mattie Hitter, Hit-ter, the police matron, and seemed more Interested In other matters pertaining per-taining to the city than In her own plight. Questioned last night by Chief Jones as to whether she would return to Chicago to face the charge of kld-naplni,- she answered "Not without one of the s'iffest legal le-gal battles you ever saw in this portion por-tion of the country." CHICAGO, Ian 27 Mrs Mary Robblns today was refused extradition papers for the return to Chicago of Uias Prances MacLane, held at ogden. Utah, charged with kidnaping George 1J. Uubblns, 3rd, aged thrco and a h.tlf years. The state's attorney declined to Issue tho papers because the child had been given Into tho custody of tho father by the court and was being taken to Los Angeles to Join him Tho kidnaping action was taken by Mrs Mary RobplnS, former show girl who was divorced from her husband. C'ltlei II. p.obMns. December L' i. 1 920. The three and a half-year-i-11 child was given to the custody of Mr Robblns. Rob-blns. with permission for Mrs Kobbins Kob-bins to see him at Intervals. Mrs. Kobbins learned on Tuesday that Miss MacLano was taking the boy to his father In San Francisco and Immediately Im-mediately sworo out a warrant Tho young woman and child wore Intercepted Inter-cepted at Ogden yesterday and are being be-ing held there. Meanwhile Cutler I Robblns is reported to bo on his way I to Utah from Ban Francisco, in an endeavor to prevent the return of the Ichild to Chicago. Mrs Robblns declared today that Miss MacLanc Ls her former husband's fiancee and sho feared the couple wero contemplating a trip across the Pacific, making it impossible for her to see the child us permitted by the court. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. C 7 Cutler H. Robblns Is on his way to ogden to meet his son. George B. Kobbins 1 3rd. who is being brought to California Califor-nia for a visit. It was stated at the offices of the Sutter-Kasin company, (where Robblns Is employed. Relatives I of Cutler Robblns said tho court order j permitted the boy to be taken out of I tho Jurisdiction of tho Chicago courts for a month at a time, and that no trip across tho Pacific was conteni-I conteni-I plated as far as they knew, 00 |