Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1915 — MRS. JEMISON AND CHILDREN ARE BACK [ARTICLE]

MRS. JEMISON AND CHILDREN ARE BACK

Denied Admission to Canada They Are Sent Back Here Tired, Hungry and Disappointed.

One of the saddest cases that ever occurred in this city is that, of Mrs. Louis Jemison, who with her three little children, was sent back to Rens/selaer after a third unsuccessful attempt to join her husband at London, Ontario, Canada. They arrived on the 10:55 train this Wednesday morning. The children were dirty, the baby crying, the mother in tears and all were tired and hungry. Mrs. Jemison is a mute and the reporter communicated with her by writing. She said that the immigration agents had denied her admission to Canada, that she t had not seen her husband and that she had been told that her husband’s brother had been killed. She said that her own heart was bleeding with sorrow. Asked if she was hungry she replied that she was and with her little children she was taken to the Gallagher restaurant and Mrs. Gallagher prepared their dinners for them. Trustee Wood was called by telephone and plans made to reinstate the unfortunates at the county farm? ■This is the third time that Mrs. Jemison and the children had been to the Canadian border and each time they were refused admission to Canada. The immigration agent in Chicago had promised Sheriff McColly that he would do what he could to get them across and it was decided last week to notify her husband that she would be sent to Windsor and for him to come there for her, but he did not come and it is possible if he has enlisted, in the English army that he will not be allowed to come across into America. If Jemison is in the British army it looks as though that country would be duty bound to admit his family and care for them, and the failure of the woman and her children to get across offers an opportunity for a diplomatic controversy.