PATHETIC STORY
FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, 21st August.
A pathetic story was told at Birmingham when James Albutt was imprisoned for a month for declining to reveal tho whereabouts of Jjis eighteen-year-old daughter Violet, who had been adjudged mentally defective, who left tho Liverpool asylum in April for a week's holiday with her parents, and did not return.
The police were baffled in their efforts to trace her, and the parents were brought to Court several times and three times fined. Still they remained silent. The Magistrate's final appeal did not move Albutt.
Tho Magistrate: "Does it mean that you finally refuse to return the girl?" —Albutt: "Finally and absolutely. The girl is mine. We want each other, and she refuses to return to that institution. I'll stand by her."
When the decision was announced, Albutt flung wide his arms and said: "You have tho power to do what you like with me, but you'll never have my child."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 9
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167PATHETIC STORY Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 9
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