FOR BABY'S SAKE

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 5

FOR BABY'S SAKE

GIRL-MOTHER'S ORDEAL The Man Who Ran Away (From "Truth's" Special Christchurch Rep.) She was a timid . little thing;: she looked the picture of sensitiveness, and it was obvious $hat the atmosphere of the court was repellant to her. She grlanced nervously towards the Press table, and feverishly fingered her handkerchief. She dreaded the proceedings, but little baby fingers, the. cooing of her newly-born babe, steeled her for the ordeal of the public recital of "b-er shame. *•■■* It was for the child .she' wjas: fighting, not for herself. "■ In the dock, arrested on an information, stood the man whom she charged with being the father of her babe. Not once did she glance at the man, her lover of twelve months ago. "For he had disappeared, leaving her to light out the battle alone. The fires of passion had died, leaving only the ashes of a cold disdain. ' . Face to face with the girl m the Christchurch Court, Alexander Blanche, a young seaman, of Island Bay, Wellington, did not dispute paternity of his illegitimate child. He agreed to pay £1 per week, but as he was stated to be a bird of passage, whose calling lured him away on the broad waters of the ocean, he was ordered to enter into a bond.