In Re Lydia Sisk

Lydia Sisk of Desloge, St. Francois County, Missouri, files her petition in this court, alleging that her daughters Lester Sisk, aged sixteen years, and Gladys Sisk, aged fourteen years, are wrongfully restrained of their liberty by Elizabeth Wilkinson, Superintendent of the State Industrial School for Girls at Chillicothe, County of Livingston, and prays that said Elizabeth Wilkinson be commanded to bring the bodies of said children before this court for inquiry into the cause of their detention.

In response to our writ issued thereupon, Elizabeth Wilkinson made her return to this court,…