FATHER AND DAUGHTER
WHEREABOUTS .CONCEALED. SAD CASE AT BIRMINGHAM. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Aug. 21. A pathetic story comes from Birmingham. James Albutt was sent to prison for a month for declining to reveal the whereabouts of his 18-years-old daughter, Violet. The girl had been adjudged as mentally defective. She left a Liverpool mental hospital in April fof .a peek's r holiday with her parents, and had not returned. The police were baffled in their efforts to trace the' girl .The parents were brought before the Court several times and on three • occasions thev were' fined, but they still'remained silent. The magistrate's final appeal did not move Albutt. He asked: Does this mean that you finally refuse to return the girl ?, Albutt replied: Finally and'absolutely. The girl is mine. We want eiich other. She refuses to return to that institution and I will stand by her. When the Court's sentence was,passed Albutt flung,wide his arms: "Ycu have power to do what you like with me," he said, "but you will never have my child."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19413, 23 August 1926, Page 9
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