The St Albans Foundling.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6312, 9 August 1888, Page 3

The St Albans Foundling.

ITS MOTHER [DISCOVERED. It will he remembered that some time ago a child of about eighteen months' old ~__ found early one morning on a verandah in St Albans. Tho matter having been reported to tbe police, and tho little waif duly handed over to the paternal caro of the Charitable Aid Board, the detective staff eet to work to unravel the rays-tery. It appears that about eighteen montbs ago, a young woman in Dunedin gave birth to a child. The infant was put out to nuree, and until recently was under the care of a woman in the southern city. The day beforo the infant was found in St Albans, the young woman called at about seven o'clock iv the morning at the nnrae'a house, and took away the bttby. She had done this iv time to catch theexpreaß train going South. Reaching Christchurch ahe put up at Rogers' boarding-house for tbe night, and the child wna placed on the verandah come time after ten. "With the express nest morning the young woman again betookherself to Dunedin, andreanmed work in the employ from which she had asked a short holiday. The Dunedin police took somo peins about the matter. On their giving the nurse, a description of the child ond ot* the clothes that had been forwarded to them by the Christchnrch officials, she was ablo to come to a conclusion about its identity. She described a peculiar mark upon the back of the child, and on examination here tho mark was found. The mystery being thus unravelled, the mother, a young woman named Mary Keith, was apprehended in Dunedin, and was yestetday remanded to Christchurch, where sho will arrive to-night and be brought up beforo the Magistrates tomorrow.