CHILD DESERTED IN SHOP
MOTHER COMMITTED FDR SENTENCE FALSE DECLARATIOHS OF MARRIACE [Pee United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, January 27. The mother of the child found in a city shop last month, Delia Rabbitt, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today. She was charged that at Dunedin, in registering the birth of Gordon Nathaniel Brown, she made a false statement in the register book of births—namely, that she was married at Invercargill on September 28, 1932, to Nathaniel William Brown, that her name was Dulcie Brown, and that her maiden name was M'Donald. Nathaniel William Brown, an engineer and well-borer, said that he was a married man- separated from his wife. He had known the accused for four or five years. He knew that she had two children. The information in the birth certificate in which he was given as the husband of the accused was untrue-
The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for •sentence. Bail was allowed, and she was ordered to remain in the Mount Magdala Home.
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Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 12
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172CHILD DESERTED IN SHOP Evening Star, Issue 22247, 27 January 1936, Page 12
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