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Show -- w I MMLimm ii rni-m S1HTW0NBY UT1 Question of Boston Children Becoming Mormons Raised in Court (Special Dispatch) BOSTON. Mass.. June 3. Involving the question as to whether children should be sent to Utah to be brought up as Mormons, Judge Prest of the probate court, on rival petitions for the guardianship of three minor children child-ren of the late Robert and Vortlo Gilchrist Gil-christ of Lynn, decided ln favor of the Mormon aspirant for their custody. Miss Florence M. J.-pperson of Provo, Utah, making her permanent guardian. guard-ian. The decision of the court gives Miss Jopperson the right to adopt the children, child-ren, three girls, Marlon. 10 year.-' "f age; Ruth. 8 and Georgia, 6. Mi 1 Jcpperson Is head of the music department de-partment of the Brigham Young university uni-versity and between her salary and her farm has an annual income of $7,500 she testified. The decree of the court will carry out tho wishes of the mother who was a Mormon and who, after her husband's hus-band's death and on her own deathbed, death-bed, asked Miss Jcpperson to take the children. Th other aspirant for the custody of tho children was Mrs Charlotte White Burt, residing on Huntington avenue and who conducts a school of music and who was also a musical friend of the mother of the three children. |