MRS COPE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XIX, Issue 188, 25 August 1883, Page 2

MRS COPE.

To the Editoi f tlie Express. Sir, — Regarding the case of Mrs Cope, as you call it, I would like to say a few words. I write m a friendly spirit to her, and as a friend I have always acted. If I were to send her Home I would be doing her an injury, for as sure as my mother goes Home she will have to go to the workhouse, for there is no one there to do anything for her, and if she stops here there is always as good a home as I can make for her, and plenty to eat, and I certainly think it very unkind of Mr Radd and the few neighbours m the Borough who have been taking the part they have m the matter, I can keep my mother better than Mr Radd or. any of his friends. I promised my mother that if she would stop and make herself oomfortable I would bo at the expense of putting up a new room for her, and what more could Ido t And then it was with her, "I want to go Home 1" and that I could not afford. Because I could not afford it she paoked up her things and leaving the house, said she was going to see some one m Church-street, but thiß I found afterwards was not tiue, for the next day she came with a man and cart and took her things away Mr Rouse's (?) to live. : I asked her what she was doing, but the oarter told me to let her go. The only thing my mother has left behind her is a knitted hearth-rug. As for nursing my wife I am ashamed of my mother, as I paid £25 for her to oome to New Znaland, another £5 to bring her from Wellington here, and several more £5 to make her comfortable, and now yon Bee what a mother will do to her sou } All this I did for her though I needed it for my family. I conclude with saying that I am very sorry to see this " case," as you call it m your paper.— Yourg truly. "Her Sow." [With this temperate letter we must end Mrs Cope's case so far as our columns are conoerned, Mrs Cope may be right and her son wrong, or her son right and Mrs Cope wrong, but it certainly seems to us that, with all dne deference to the kindly interest taken by one or two of our fellow townspeople, the case is not one which merited the publioity it has obtained,— Ed., M.E.]