Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — “SOLOMON” ENDS BABY CASE [ARTICLE]

“SOLOMON” ENDS BABY CASE

This Time In Person of New York Lawyer—He Foregoes the Sword. New York. —May a child be held for board unpaid? The question was asked of Magistrate Barlow, when Mrs. May Berghard, whose baby was born last August, summoned to court Mrs. Minnie Curtis because she had refused to give up the child until Mrs. Berghard paid |lO arrears of board for the baby. On consulting the court Bible, Magistrate Barlow, in emulation of King Solomon in a similar case, glanced about for the state sword which should have been behind his chair. The court stenographer had taken it away to sharpen his pencil, and In default of anything bigger than a paper cutter Magistrate Barlow threw biblical instructions to the winds, and gave the child back to its mother. •