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Marguerite Cowles, 11 years old, residing at the home of Van Sky, was sieved this afternoon by William Herbert Welch, assistant cashier of the Dent County Savings Bank, Salem, Missouri, and thrust into a waiting hack. He took the girl to police headquarters. Arline Van Sky, who was playing with Marguerite ran screaming into the Van Sky flat crying, “A man has got Marguerite.”
A moment later Mrs. Albert Wallace Cowles ordered a carriage and started in pursuit. She reached police headquarters to find Welch had told his story to Chief Michael Mealey and had custody of matron Schaefer.
Welch then started for Aitoona, Wisconsin, where evidence concerning the parentage and legal status of the possession of the child is said to be available at the home of Albert Wallace Cowles.
Welch said his sister, who married Mr. John M. Johns more than 20 years ago, had six children. The children went to live with their Missouri relatives about seven years ago, when Mr. and Mrs. Johns separated, but she kept Marguerite with her in Seattle.
Finally she wrote Welch that she had obtained a position as a traveling companion with a woman going to Shanghai, China, to reside, and had given Marguerite to theatrical people who were going to Sioux City and turn her over to her relatives. She did not reach Sioux City, Welch said. Instead, he said, the Cowles couple made an acrobat of her and have kept her ever since.
- The Salem Monitor
Marguerite Cowles, 11-year-old child acrobat, will never again appear on stage.
With her uncle, Herbert Welch, of Salem, Mo., the girl left Minneapolis last night. She is to be adopted by Mr. Welch wan will live with her uncle and her grandfather, T.J. Welch, at Salem.
Taken secretly by her uncle from Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Cowles, her foster parents, who had trained her as an acrobat and who had appeared with her on the stage in an acrobatic act, the girl yesterday told Judge Wilbur F. Booth in district court that she wished to live with her uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, who had adopted the child, withdrew their objection to a change in the child’s custody and signed papers waiving their claim of legal adoption and agreeing that the girl go with her uncle. It was agreed the girl assume her own name, Mamie Abigail Johns.
Marguerite Cowles has been a member of the Cowles acrobatic troupe for five years. The troupe consisted of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Cowles and the child, who was advertised as “Marvelous Marguerite.” She was adopted by the Cowleses five years ago in Seattle. Her mother agreed to the adoption, but her uncle, Mr. Welch, hearing that the child had been ill-treated, came to Minneapolis last Saturday. He went to the place where the Cowles were staying, 1831 Fourth Avenue S, got the child to enter a waiting carriage and took her to the central police station, pending the actions of the courts. He then signed a complaint, alleging the child to be a
- The Salem Monitor
Marguerite Cowles, 11 years old, residing at the home of Van Sky, was sieved this afternoon by William Herbert Welch, assistant cashier of the Dent County Savings Bank, Salem, Missouri, and thrust into a waiting hack. He took the girl to police headquarters. Arline Van Sky, who was playing with Marguerite ran screaming into the Van Sky flat crying, “A man has got Marguerite.”
A moment later Mrs. Albert Wallace Cowles ordered a carriage and started in pursuit. She reached police headquarters to find Welch had told his story to Chief Michael Mealey and had custody of matron Schaefer.
Welch then started for Aitoona, Wisconsin, where evidence concerning the parentage and legal status of the possession of the child is said to be available at the home of Albert Wallace Cowles.
Welch said his sister, who married Mr. John M. Johns more than 20 years ago, had six children. The children went to live with their Missouri relatives about seven years ago, when Mr. and Mrs. Johns separated, but she kept Marguerite with her in Seattle.
Finally she wrote Welch that she had obtained a position as a traveling companion with a woman going to Shanghai, China, to reside, and had given Marguerite to theatrical people who were going to Sioux City and turn her over to her relatives. She did not reach Sioux City, Welch said. Instead, he said, the Cowles couple made an acrobat of her and have kept her ever since.
- The Salem Monitor
Marguerite Cowles, 11-year-old child acrobat, will never again appear on stage.
With her uncle, Herbert Welch, of Salem, Mo., the girl left Minneapolis last night. She is to be adopted by Mr. Welch wan will live with her uncle and her grandfather, T.J. Welch, at Salem.
Taken secretly by her uncle from Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Cowles, her foster parents, who had trained her as an acrobat and who had appeared with her on the stage in an acrobatic act, the girl yesterday told Judge Wilbur F. Booth in district court that she wished to live with her uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Cowles, who had adopted the child, withdrew their objection to a change in the child’s custody and signed papers waiving their claim of legal adoption and agreeing that the girl go with her uncle. It was agreed the girl assume her own name, Mamie Abigail Johns.
Marguerite Cowles has been a member of the Cowles acrobatic troupe for five years. The troupe consisted of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Cowles and the child, who was advertised as “Marvelous Marguerite.” She was adopted by the Cowleses five years ago in Seattle. Her mother agreed to the adoption, but her uncle, Mr. Welch, hearing that the child had been ill-treated, came to Minneapolis last Saturday. He went to the place where the Cowles were staying, 1831 Fourth Avenue S, got the child to enter a waiting carriage and took her to the central police station, pending the actions of the courts. He then signed a complaint, alleging the child to be a
- The Salem Monitor
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