HIS MOTHER MARRIED A NEGRO. ~ But 6-Year-Old Boy's Black Stepfather Provides for Him.

December 4, 1908
HIS MOTHER MARRIED A NEGRO.

But 6-Year-Old Boy's Black Step-
father Provides for Him.

The action of a white man against his former wife for the custody of their 6-year-old son was dismissed yesterday by Acting Probate Judge J. S. Hynes in Kansas City, Kas. The wife, after the husband had secured a divorce from her, married a negro. The child is being sent to a white school by its black stepfather, and, according to a number of witnesses who testified at the examination, is being well provided for.

As the laws of Kansas permit intermarriage between the whites and blacks, Judge Hynes held that he had no right to interfere in the case at issue, inasmuch as there was no evidence to show that the child was being neglected.