THE SLINGSBY CASE.
SENSATIONAL LEGITIMACY LAW SUIT.
Press Association—Plcctrir Telepraph—Copyi.ght. (Received Thursday, 8.45 a.m.)
. LONDON, Wednesday. Tho judgment in the Slingsby case upholds the child's legitimacy.
The judge said that he had grave reason for thinking that the detectives were employed before the child's birth. Ho considered that the charge of substitution for another child untrue.
(A cablegram on December 2nd last stated that a sensational legitimacy caso had commenced in tho High Court, involving the well-known Slingsby estates at Knaresborough. Charles Slingsby was seeking to establish the legitimacy of Teddy, his four-year-old son. Two .brothers asserted that the mother was living in British Columbia. She went to San Francisco and had a child, which was stillborn. She advertised and secured Teddy, and. foisted him upon Charles.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14203, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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