Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1908 — DIDN’T TAKE THE CHILDREN. [ARTICLE]

DIDN’T TAKE THE CHILDREN.

Deputy Sheriff’s Heart Failed When They Clung to Their Mother. Muncie, lnd„ Nov. 21.—Although Deputy Sheriff Thomas Kiger was armed with all the necessary papers for taking into legal custody the two children of Mrs. Minnie Dunkin, who had been declared by the Circuit Court unfit to rear the children, the officer did not take them. Kiger found the two children, one a mere Infant, clinging to their mother’s skirts, and the woman hysterical at the thonght of losing them. The deputy sheriff tried to reason with the woman, but he did so in a half-hearted way and then left the houhe with the children still in the woman’s possession, while he made a report to Judge Leffler.