Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — TRYING TO GET THE LITTLE M’CARTY BOY [ARTICLE]

TRYING TO GET THE LITTLE M’CARTY BOY

Local Attorney and Charity Board Went to Huntington In Effort to Recover Child. Lem McCarty, who is employed on the Starnberg dredge and who was deserted some three or four yeans ago by his wife, continues his effort to get the control of his 5-year-old son, who is now with the mother, who procured a divorce after going to Huntington and is again married. The local charity board is convinced that the father is a much more proper person to have the boy than the mother and the father has shown his reliability by working industriously and by making plans for the care of the son if he gets control of him. Mr. McCarty, accompanied by Truant Officer C. B. Steward and Mrs. John I. Gwin, of the local charities board, and by Attorney John A. Dunlap, went to Huntington Tuesday and asked that the decree for divorce granted to Mrs. McCarty be again opened up so far as the custody of the child was concerned. .—: The case was continued. It is alleged that Mrs. McCarty procured a divorce from her husband following the publication of a non-resident notice in a Huntington newspaper, alleging that he was a non-resident of the state, when he had all the time lived in Jasper county. At that time he had the custody of the child and was providing well for it, but when the divorce was granted the mother was given custody of the child and she came here with an officer and took the child home with her. The legal battle began at once and now it looks as though the couk may again award the child to its father, especially in view of the alleged false methods employed by the mother to get a divorce. Her present name is Poorman.