In re application for possession of Judge

Backes, V. C.

This habeas corpus was sued out by a mother to recover her two-year-old child. The mother was married at fifteen to a worthless fellow who deserted her shortly afterwards. She was destitute and friendless when the baby came, and in her despair gave it to Mrs. Grice, the respondent, to raise, when it was six weeks old. Shortly afterwards the mother, quite naturally, repented, but Mrs. Grice had disappeared from Baltimore, where these tilings took place, and no trace of her or the child could be found until just before this writ wus taken out, when they were located at Jersey City.…