Three Years to Bring Maggie Home

After legal proceedings lasting over three years, Mrs. Kate Lovell, formerly Mrs. McGee, obtained possession of her daughter Maggie yesterday afternoon from the sisters of the House of the Good Shepherd. At the time the case first came before the public it attracted considerable attention owing to the attack made by Mrs. McGee upon one of the sisters in a vain attempt to get her child. Maggie was originally placed in the institution on an indefinite oral agreement, the evidence on the point being conflicting. Habeas corpus proceedings were begun by Mrs. McGee in the superior court at three different times, at each of which it was decided that she was not a proper person to have charge of the child. After Mrs. McGee married John Lovell they adopted the child through a Pierce County court, and under the name of Lovell appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court passed upon the case two weeks ago, holding that the evidence did not show Mrs. Lovell or McGee to be an improper person to have charge of the child, and that, if it did, the duty of the superior court was to appoint a guardian, as a corporation cannot adopt a child. Mrs. Lovell came over from Tacoma yesterday and her attorney, Will K. Humphrey, went to the House of the Good Shepherd and got the child. The meeting between the mother and the little one she had not seen for three years was affecting. They went to Tacoma last evening.