A CASE OF ABDUCTION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10441, 29 April 1910, Page 4

A CASE OF ABDUCTION.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.)'; Receiced April 28, at 10 p.m. -• ' Perth, April 28. As a result of "divorce proceedings an English woman named Mrs Hawke secured the custody of her two children in England in 1904. From the date of the trial the husband and the children disappeared'. The mother remained in ignorance of their whereabouts till' a few weeks ago, when slie learned that they were in Western Australia. ;

Mrs Hawke arrived by mail boat this week, and the legal machinery was put in motion to establish her claims. The mother met her children to-day for the first time in sis years.