STRANGE BABY FOUND
CHARGE AGAINST FATHER \ The* finding of a strange baby in ai perambulator outside a building in London lately led to the appearance of George James Thorpe, aged 24, an unemployed decorator, at court. Thorpe was charged with abandoning hi 3 daughter, Diana, aged 16 months. Detective-Sergeant Somerset, who traced the mother, said that she stated she left the child in the care of her. husband while she went out to work. Ho had been unemployed for six weeks and looked after the baby while she wenfc out. When she returned on this occasion her husband said that under "a previous arrangement he had got the baby adopted, and it was all right. Later witness charged Thorpe, who replied, " I admit it. My wife knew nothing about it. She thought it \ias adopted. I could not see it start e as well as myself. What are you to do? " Thorpe's wife, stated Sergeant Somerset, was a waitress and a very hardworking woman, and it seemed that she did not know what was happening to the babv Mrs. Thorpe, a neatly-dressed woman,was called, but said she did not desiir* to give evidence. Thorpe was remanded*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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