CHILD TAKEN AWAY BY GRANDPARENTS
(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) BRISBANE, Nov. 20. Mrs Phoebe Maude Linton, aged 32, of Northcote, Auckland, who accused her father, Joseph Coleman, and her stepmother, Ella Coleman, of having kidnapped her daughter, Gwenda Marie Linton, aged seven, from New Zealand, has been awarded the custody of the child in the Supreme Court. Mrs Linton followed her parents and daughter from New Zealand through Melbourne and Sydney to Brisbane, where she located the child with her parents.
The judge said Mrs Linton had obtained an order for the custody of the child in New Zealand and the respondents were lucky not to be in gaol for having taken the child away when custody proceedings were pending.
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Southland Times, Issue 24598, 21 November 1941, Page 3
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