ABANDONMENT OF CHILD.
SEQUEL IN COURT
Electric Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The mother of the child found in a city shop last month, Delia Babbitt, appeared in the Magistrate's Court to-day. She was charged that at Dunedin, in registering the birth ot Gordon Nathaniel Brown, she made a false statement in the register book of births, namely, that she was married at Invercargill on September 28. 1932. to Xathanial William Brown and that her name was Dulcie Brown and her maiden name McDonald. Nathaniel William Brown, an engineer and well borer, said that he was a married man separated from liis wife. He had known the accused for four or five years. He knew that she had two children. The information in the birth certificate in which he was given as the husband of accused was untrue.
The accused pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence. Bail was allowed and she was ordered to remain at the Aloiint Alagdala Home.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13167, 28 January 1936, Page 5
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