[Index as: (Carter case), “Calls Dakota Divorce a Bar. – Counsel for Andrew P. Cater Makes That Plea – Wife Asks Custody of Boy.” New York Tribune (N. Y.), Jul. 29, 1904]

Mrs. Pauline Gray Carter, wife of Arthur P. Carter, an insurance agent, asked the Supreme Court yesterday for custody of their nine-year-old child, Andrew Gray Carter. Mrs. Carter is suing for divorce from her husband, and alleges that he has stolen the child and prejudiced him against her. She also applied for alimony and counsel fee, pending the determination of her suit. Justice Scott reserved decision.

The troubles of the Carters are complicated and of long duration, involving litigation in several States. Each accuses the other of infidelity. One of the co-respondents named by Carter is Preston A. Harrison, who is, according to Mr. Carter, a brother of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. Mrs. Carter said that she had the rightful custody of the boy in the last two years, and that Mr. Carter had taken him out when he desired, on condition that he return the boy on the same day. She said it took thousands of dollars and a search of four months to find the boy. To illustrate how Carter had poisoned her child’s mind against her, she told of one instance when the boy threatened to shoot her, and was only prevented by some one standing near.

Carter’s attorney opposed the motion, on the ground that Mrs. Carter had secured a Dakota divorce in 1901, still in full force. They held that the judgment in the case was binding on both parties, and hence an absolute bar to the present suit.

Carter declares that his wife’s testimony in the Tennessee litigation shows that her expenses were born by Colonel Albert Pope, president of the Pope Manufacturing Company. “My son told me,” said Carter, “that Pope gave her an automobile and that at one time she received $1,500 from him by express in Chattanooga, My son also told me that while he was in the Academy of the Sacred Heart, in Westchester, Pope always called with his mother in an automobile, and would bring him to New-York City, where Pope was a frequent visitor of hers.”