ABANDONED BABY
MOTHER’S FAREWELL NOTE. “Please look after mv little baby Frances. I hav e no money » keep her. She is the sweetest baby ever was. Good-bye, darling. Mother must leave you now. ’’ This message was written in pencil on a sheet of paper found beside a baby girl left in the Windsor (Southern) Railway Station waiting room on a recent Sunday afternoon. The baby, which had been placed on two chairs, is about three or four months old. Shortly before the infant was found a woman wearing a long green coat and having long fair hair and wearing no hat was seen with a baby in her arms.
Th c child was handed over to the Windsor police and afterwards conveyed to Windsor Poor Law Institution.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 14
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127ABANDONED BABY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 291, 7 December 1929, Page 14
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