Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1916 — OXLEY CHILDREN WARDS OF COURT [ARTICLE]

OXLEY CHILDREN WARDS OF COURT

Neglect By Parents Charged and Little Boy aAid Cir! Are Sent to Julia Work Home. On the complaint of neighbors that Fred Oxley and wife were not providing properly for their two children, Freddie, aged 5, .and Goldie, aged 3, were taken before Judge Hanley Monday afternoon by Truant Officer Charles B. Steward. When he stated his business to the parents after rapping at the door, Mr. Steward states that Mrs. Oxley cursed and said she would shoot any “ dren a\Vay. Mr. Steward asked her to come to the court house and rtate her ability to care for the children to Judge Hanley but she declined to go. The father went and made feeble objection to the children being taken away and Judge Hanley ordered the little ones taken to the Julia Work home at Plymouth and he left for that place on the 6:50 train and arrived home this morning. The Oxleys came here about three years ago and have been more or less in the limelight since that time. Recently she sued her husband for divorce and the case is now pending but they are said to be living together. Various rumors concerning the conduct of the mother have been passed about town and these led co the decision to take the children away.