THE QUINTUPLETS
PARENTS’ STAGE OFFER. TORONTO. April 1. The. Ontario Government has extended the. guard over the IDionne quintuplets so that two armed officers are always in the hospital where they are being brought up and a nurse sleeps in the same room as the infants. 1 The authorities believe there is some, foundation for the recent stories ; of a kidnapping plot, and the Gov- ■ ernment has passed legislation formally appointing Dr. Dafoe, who attended Mrs. Dionne, the Minister of Health. ; Mr. Croll. and Mr. Dionne, guardians , of the children, who are proclaimed “special wards of His Majesty,” until , they are 18 years of age. ’ Meanwhile, the parents have signed a new contract to go on a vaudeville tour of the United States at a salary ■ of £3OO a week. The police believe 1 that the kidnapping was planned in order to steal the children across the L boundary into the States for exhibition. l The father and mother protest the , Government’s action, claiming that , their family is being divided, with the ; older children acquiring an inferiority ; complex. The police assume that the parents may have been secretly conniving at the kidnapping, hoping that the children' would be taken to the States, become American citizens and make a fortune as a sideshow in circuses.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 11 April 1935, Page 8
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214THE QUINTUPLETS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 11 April 1935, Page 8
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