WOMAN’S FINE PAID

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 12 September 1930, Page 5

WOMAN’S FINE PAID

PROTEST AGAINST LAW

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LONDON, Sept. 10.

Mr. Frank Vo®per, a young London playwright, paid Mm. Pither’® tine, and Airs. Pither was released from Holloway after three days’ confinement. Mr. V osper explains ,Ins action as a protest against the law which says “You are imprisoned if you are not rich enough to pay. It is wicked to make the punhihnient fit the crime only in relation to a person’*, financial position.”

Mis. Pither was fined £SO, or three months’ imprisonment, for making a false declaration to the registrar of births.

A cablegram from London on Augiuc 25 stated : The kidnapping of a mont h- -, rl ciild named Leslie Bailey has occupied much space in London newspapers since Friday, August 8. On the afternoon of that day Mrs Violet Pithe\ wife of a railway porter, informed the police that her baby had been kidnapped from a perambulator in a crowd in Edgeware Road. Immediately there was a, hue and cry. The search, extended throughout London, and on August 12 the child was found in bed with his’ real mother, Mrs. Bailey, of West Ham. When the child was a, fortnight old 'the mother advertised for a- foster i mother. M rs. Pither answered and took over her charge. Then Mrs. Bailey Tenanted and obtained the return of the baby from Mrs. Pither. Meanwhile Mm. Pither had registered it as her own. Her husband swore, it was ihers. The neighbours who were called in to see the hahv in bed with Mrs. Pit',hers swore that it was her child. Next came the c! is nop,a a ranee of Mrs. Pither, for whom the police searched extensively. T o hl’shnncl declared that lie was herrt-hvoken. Mrs. Pither was alleged t> have been guilty of false regjstrafim of birth,. .