Reinhardt Races Train to Recover His Son, Lets Daughter Leave, April 26, 1926

Races Train to Take Children from Mother . . . Mrs. Reinhardt Was Under Court Order Not to Leave State with Them

Gastonia, April 24—Overtaking train No. 15, southbound, which left Gastonia at 8:20 a.m., T.B. Reinhardt, operator of the local taxi cab here, boarded the coach in which his wife and their two children were headed for Knoxville, Tenn., at Grover, N.C., took their 5-year-old son from the mother, and returned to the city.

Mrs. Susie Reinhardt was under superior court orders signed by Judge G.V. Cowper not to leave the state with her children, following the habeas corpus proceedings she brought against her husband for the two children.

Reinhardt, on learning that his wife was leaving for Tennessee, raced the train to Grover, beat it to the station there, and secured his son, Robert Reinhardt.

In the habeas corpus action the custody of both children was awarded to the mother, on condition that each might spend the first week each month with the father.

From page 5 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, April 26, 1926

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