Father, Stepmother Kidnapped Child
(Rec. 2 p.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Mrs. Phoebe Maud Linton, aged 32, of Northcote, Auckland, who accused her father, Joseph Coleman, and stepmother, Ella Coleman, of having kidnapped her daughter, Gwenda Marie Linton, aged seven, from New Zealand, has been awarded custody of the child in a Supreme Court action. Mrs. Linton followed her parents from New Zealand through Melbourne and Sydney to Brisbane, where she located the child with her parents. The judge said that Mrs. Linton obtained an order for custody of the child in New Zealand and the respondents were lucky not’ to be in gaol for having taken the child away when custody proceedings were pending.
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Northern Advocate, 20 November 1941, Page 2
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