A Custody Battle Over Young Hazel Abbott

M. L. Abbott, a brother of Charles Abbott, the hotel man who was divorced from his wife, Georgie Abbott, nearly two years ago, yesterday applied to Judge Osborn for a writ of habeas corpus for Hazel Blanche Abbott, his brother's daughter, who, he alleges, is illegally restrained of her liberty by Joseph Quirk. Judge Lichtenberg's decree gave the custody of the child to the wife, who placed her in Quirk's care, but yesterday Abbott's brother filed with the superior court affidavits to the extent that Mrs. Abbott has ever since she was divorced been an inmate of houses of prostitution in Seattle and that she has lately left the city and abandoned the child. On this showing Judge Langley changed the decree and put the child to the husband, who is now seeking by habeas corpus proceedings to get her away from Quirk and her to California, where he wishes to place her with his married sister, Mrs. J. D. Allen, to be cared for.