onir.o~of her two litUc sons, Dan, 5,andTom, 2 years old.The courts, unable to decide on the merits of the ease at the time being,iir i have made the decision of Solomon.dem.ryThey, have awarded the custody of the older hoy to the father and the baby to the mother. And last week Id;wee Tommy was taken from his pa-’lernl. grandmother. Mrs. Thomas Radford, and his big brother, Dan, who cried to ‘'go with Tommy, and was taken to his mother In Buffalo. Differ on Responsibility. .According to John Radford, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Anna McGuire, of Buffalo, is responsible for his {i matrimonial tribulations. According to his wife, her husband is himself responsible, for she says that he struck her and abused her on three different occasions, stole tho children away frans- her and left her with no means of support.• John says that after his marriageon August 12th, 1912, he and his wife went housekeeping for themselves ina.ntaysyever ^ince.Radford says that last November he went to ‘Buffalo to see his wife and he tried to get her to come back and live with him, offering to pay her for taking care of the children. She said she couldn't make up her mind but would write in a few days.-which she did, refusing to go back under any circumstances. Then she brought suit for separation charging abandonment and cruelty. She* is working for tiie D., L. W. company and is receiving a salary of 5100 a month, her husband says.♦-WORKMAN OVERCOME BY GAS IN BITCHTVsrGPiclOfuspDhlt;thinf°ib~I Jc’While repairing a leak • in a- gas main. Leonard Schneider. 25, of N’o. 1223 Butternut street, was overcomeby fumes in ;m excavation at Avery jBuffalo, but that before the birth of! avenue ai^d Essex, street late Satur-I the iirst baby they went to live with jday afternoon. He- is at St. Joseph's :”|Mrs. McGuire. Then, he says, he hospital, where last , last night bo.bought a place in Buffalo and loft ill was siidto be out of danger.U f . • •« .A. ... .. .... J .. I rt .1. .11 a * /*.nisdin April. 1317, when they moved to Belle Isle where he bought a home. Anna. John says, stood for Belle Isle just three months.In the early part of July, 1917, he alleges in his affidavit, Mrs. McGuire came from Buffalo to visit her daughter. One day he says, he came homeSchneider, with another Syracuse Lighting company workman, wasBunt to repair die leak, discovered persons in the neighborhood, earlyina*hiinlieI).fothPtthhiIn i the afternoon.After the earth bad been removed and the main exposed, * Schneider went-down into the trench to makeand found that his wife was selling!the necessary repairs. The man part of the furniture. In reality it j working with him went away for a belonged to her, he said, but, of j short time.’ 'When the helper recourse, I asked her the reason for selling it-and she said she could not stand it any longer, It was too lonesome and she was going home to her mother.Changed Jobs to Please Her./T was at that time working for the New York. Central and, of course, I was away a great many nights. To 'please her I left the.railroad and went .to work, for the Solvuy Process com-elpany so I could he more at home.turned he found Schneider lying unconscious across the main. • -ROCHESTER MAN HAS FIRST CROSS HEREdefoVePicotrlt;sunelieLa:th;thesiaff'Washington, Feb. S.—The first distinguished service cross to .be pre-hi-jUrPfl on Tpjivm nK. 1 sented in this country to an enlisted _ HOwe\er siie msisceu on ieJ.T .nD mej man f0r gallantry overseas was wornand sa:cl sac was going to uoia:,A4«v w vawaii t* . rv-,w*rmother's and 1 would have to pay for her support and' the children. We had trouble at that time and she sold more of the furniture. She told my mother that her .mother said -she would spend S200 to separate us.While she was trying to sell the furniture I took the two babies to my people in Solvay because there was nothing in the house for them and my wife .said she was going* away that day and was going to steal the children and take them with her. The next day I was served with papers in a habeas corpus proceedingtoday by Corporal Newell B. • Davis, ofRochester, X. Y., L company. Twenty-eighth infantry of 'the. first division, who received the decoration at Walter Reed hospital where he is recuperating from wounds. General Pershing cited Davis for rescuing a wounded comrade at Cantigny In the face of machine gun fire..To Meet. Monday. .The. special committee of the Syracuse- Memorial association, consisting of the presiding officers of'.each organization, will meet at the Yokefellows room in the Y. M. C. A building on Monday evening at 8 o'clock.— ♦ —— -. 1 an Le sa: He Fa SU Ira puisteter7:3atsinClub to Hold Dance.and after a hearing Justice Crouch ordered tho older child to Stay with j -me and the baby to be given to the I,,.£n n5!?t.^d daclnST-nfho- -\tv fho oViiht on A be under tbc auspices of themother. M3 Mile look the cruio ana i 1 nt»H Tnft^of #»«**_went fo Buffalo. I kept the housej open for her for three months andLcmoyno Social club on Tuesday evening. Men in uniform are especially invited.(th*LatoAnMrSO 5Ins