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Less backward about the unpleasant details of Mrs. Vanderbilt's life was Gloria's nurse. When the trial was transferred to open court Nurse Keislich told of peeking through a door with Mrs. Morgan one night at Biarritz, seeing Prince Friedrich von Hohenlohe in Mrs. Vanderbilt's bedroom. Concluded Nurse Keislich triumphantly: "He had on pajamas and she had on night clothes...
...Justice's desk lay Mrs. Vanderbilt's petition for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mrs. Whitney to surrender Gloria. Week before, charged Mrs. Vanderbilt, "The child said she wanted to go to Central Park with her nurse to feed the pigeons. . . . Shortly thereafter she was spirited out of the house by said nurse, Emma Keislich, without being brought back to your petitioner to say goodby. . . . The nurse took the infant to Mrs. Whitney's home and the infant has been confined and detained there ever since against the will and consent of your petitioner...
That Mrs. Vanderbilt had any legal right to her daughter Mrs. Whitney would not admit. When "Reggie" Vanderbilt died in 1925 his beauteous wife was but 20, too young to have legal custody of their baby. For ten years Mrs. Vanderbilt was content to let relatives worry over her daughter's upbringing. Three months ago she applied to be made Gloria's guardian. Mrs. Whitney countered with the charge that her sister-in-law was not a fit person to have her own daughter...
...Vanderbilt endeavored to show Gloria how to make a cocktail and tried to force the child to drink orange juice although all liquids are forbidden by the doctor. . . . Gloria came to me and stated that she felt so unhappy at Mrs. Vanderbilt's that she would rather jump out of the window than stay there...
Upon the affidavit that bore the signature of Mrs. Vanderbilt's own mother. Mrs. Whitney relied most. Mrs. Laura Kilpatrick Morgan minced no words...