Mother Has The Girl Now

Anna Roberts Once More in the Lime-light

TAKEN FROM SCHOOL

By Her Stepfather and Concealed in Detroit-- Grandmother Trying to Get Her Again

Another chapter is about to be written in the Anna Roberts case, wherein her mother is struggling for possession of the girl and this time the mother appears to have a shade the better of the inning. It will be remembered that on Sept. 14 habeas corpus proceedings were heard before Judge Kinne at the instigation of the mother, Mrs.Wilhelmina Ottmar, to obtain custody of her daughter, who was in possession of her grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Buckholtz, of Northfield. In the proceedings it was claimed that while the home with the grandmother was satisfactory in many respects that the girl could not receive proper educational advantages there and the mother desired she be brought home that she might look after her welfare in this regard. The court in deciding the case said that while the law gave the mother charge of the daughter yet, at her age, he knew of no way to forcer her to stay with the mother if she chose to go with her grandmother. The girl accordingly went with the grandmother.

This ending of the case did not satisfy the mother and her husband, John M. Ottmar--step-father of the girl--and they have evidently been quietly laying plans to secure possession of the girl. These arrangements were evidently completed last Thursday for on that day Mr. Ottmar hired a hack and went to the Welch school house in Northfield and forcibly--it is claimed--compelled the girl to accompany him to this city. She was taken to the Michigan Central depot and it is said kept there by the hackman until Ottmar went home and changed his clothing and secured proper raiment for the girl, when they proceeded to Detroit, where it is said the girl is now concealed.

Wednesday the grandmother was in the city seeking legal advice as to the proper measures to take in order to get the girl again and it is probable that a writ of habeas corpus may be issued and the case get into the court.