Half-Brother And Sister Married, And Man Is Tried For Abduction.
MAGISTRATE DISMISSES CHARGE, DECLARING HE DOES NOT BELIEVE GIRL’S MOTHER.
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received July 6, 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 6.
ONE OF THE STRANGEST STORIES was told in the Police Court yesterday, when Daniel Willis, aged 34, was charged with having ahducted Kathleen Foster, aged 20. An examination of the birth certificates of accused and the girl proved that they were half-brother and sister. The documents revealed that the man’s birth was registered when his mother was fifteen years old and his sister was born after his mother’s marriage. Willis and the girl Foster married last year. The girl’s mother declared from the box that when sent by her mother to register the birth of defendant, the Registrar entered her name as the boy’s mother. The Magistrate remarked: I don’t believe you. The abduction charge was dismissed and the couple were advised to live apart until the matter was solved.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 1
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