REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS.
FALSE DECLARATIONS. (-RESS ASSOCIATION TEXXORA-C.) WELLINGTON, January 28. Two young married women livms apart from their husbands were charged ac the Magistrate's Court with making false declarations in registering the births of children, by stating in each case that tho husband was the father, whereas in each case proceedings were subsequently taken against another man who was adjudged tho putative father. Daphno Caroline George • was charged with declaring Southerton Henry George to be the father of a female child, whereas a man named Clement L. Cadell had been adjudged the father of the child by the Wellington Magistrate, and was ordered to pay 7s Gd a week towards its maintenance. The girl's story to tho enquiring detective was that she left George, a tally-clerk in Christchurch, a few years ago, and *.e-nt with Cadell, who at that time was a chauffeur and who was tho father of the child. Defendant said 6he registered the child wrongly to save it from the shame of illegitimacy when it grew up. She was committed to the Supreme Court for sen+once. Bail was allowed. A peculiar feature is that the man Cadell mentioned is identical with the man of that name who commited suicide at "Wanganui recently. A plea of guilty was also entered in the case of Maria Agnes "Walker, who left her husband somo years ago, but registered him as the father of a child born last year. Subsequently she took proceedings against a man named Lionel Warren, who admitted parentage, and consented to a maintenance order. This defendant said sho thought she- was under an obligation to register the child in her husband's name even if he were .not its father: She was also committed for sentence on the same bail.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 4
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293REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS. Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 4
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