A SCENE IN A COURT.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12410, 27 November 1908, Page 4

A SCENE IN A COURT.

There was a strangely moving scene in the Supreme Court of New York the other day, when a woman named Mrs Amory, who had travelled all -the way from South Dakota, instant- ■«?«£ C f 0{ f lsed m Mary Stafford, a tall, graceful young- girl of fourteen summers her mfant daughter, who had been kidnapped 13 yeaVs ago. As the mother, accompanied by several lady friends, entered the Court (says the "Daily Mail,") she wluspered : "That is my eh Id I recogmse her. I feel it here" (pressing her heart.) The girl glanced up from the prayer-book which she was ■reading and gazed intently at thl faces of the four ladies, concentrating yG J anally on her- moi/her g .But, the Court would not allow the two to' speak the foundling authorities; whoso charge Mary Stafford had been since she was, picked up, a helpkss infant, m the streets of New *ork contending that no evidence had been brought fry Mrs Amory in support of her claim. Then it was that Mrs Ainory with tears streaming 'down her face and sobbing aloud, rushed overdo the young g,rl and clasped her in her arms, and the girl, who was also weeping, responded with kisses and cried repeatedly, "I know you are my. mother; I know it. Mother, dear youare mine." • . ' The judge, observing this scene, earnestly advised the foundling authorities to abandon their legal scruples in deference to the voice of nature.