ROMANCE OF A FOUNDLING.
MOTHER'S 9000 MILES JOURNEY. , The x desertion of a pretty baby girl by her • mother, near Scarborough, aboujb eighteen months ago, has. , had a romantic sequel. The woman, who was in poor circumstances, and almost distracted with trouble, took her baby from Scarborough to Cloughtonj and left it on a footpath. Luckily the child was quickly found, and taken, to the farmhouse of Mr 'John Leadley xne mother was traced by the police to ' lodgings in Scarborough and was arrested.. Her sad story excited the sympathy of the magistrates, and she was discharged. ' . The story was reported in the newspapers, and was read by a gold miner in British Columbia, who offered \to marry the young woman, and sent; £30 to pay her passage out to him. The. woman consented, and was married the day after she landed. The baby meanwhile was adopted by Mrs Milow, of Seamer, near ScaX borough, but the mother, happy in ne j! married life, so longed for the little one that she arrived the other, day to take her back. She sailed from layer pool, and by the time she reaches her distant home she will have traveller? -^V 9000 miles for her child. ■ '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8585, 29 March 1906, Page 2
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204ROMANCE OF A FOUNDLING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8585, 29 March 1906, Page 2
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