FALSE REGISTRATION OF BIRTH
' YOUNG WIDOW GUILTY : REMANDED FOR SENTENCE > “This woman's action has been j prompted by an over-fondness for • children," said Detective-Sergeant N. : | W. Bayliss, in the Magistrate’s Court, i, at Wanganui, yesterday, when a young 11 widow, whose name was suppressed. , | was charged that, on October 4, 1938, > at Wanganui, she wilfully made, for i the purpose of being inserted, in the register of births, a false statement. It was shown in evidence that she . had no children of her own, and had , taken into her home an infant child belonging to a woman living in Weli lington. She had reared the child and i registered it as her own. i Defendant pleaded guilty, and was i committed, by the magistrate, Mr. J. i H Salmon, ,c the Supreme Court, at Wellington, for sentence. Bail was I allowed in a sum of £5O,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 3
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