WIFE TOO YOUNG
SOLDIER RETURNS BABY Trooper William Bentley, of the Royal Armoured Corps, told the Aldershot coroner that a waitress at a cafe gave him her six-weeks-old baby, and he got compassionate leave to take it home to his wife at Paisley. The guard stopped the train every three hours to get hot water to mix. the baby's food. Five days later he brought the baby back because his wife was told by the welfare authorities that she was too young to adopt it. The baby, Michael Laurence Walker, died soon after. The verdict was death from natural causes.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 194, 18 August 1942, Page 3
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