BY THE COURT'S ORDER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 424, 5 February 1909, Page 7

BY THE COURT'S ORDER.

PAINFUL FAMILY. DISPUTE OVER:A : . - CHILD „ _ The London "Daily News" of December 19 . stiitesi-''"Tho ':finnl act in a 1 little ■ domestio drama-was witnessed to-day m Plymouth:. "Ten ' •year«''Ago' a Mr.: Barley;: when in' business lis a . ■ draper in London, married. -r ; A: girJ was born,:. and tlireo "weeks after birth she was placed m . charge ! cf Mr.: Burley's- sisters, at Plymouth. •Mr and Sirs. Burley went •to New Zealand, and' Mrs; Burley some months; agopiade a long; ; journey ; from- New,-Zealand to*- recover..'.-the. .-. ■ child; but the aunts and: the "child, ;Who^had been 1 together so many,'years, 1 did not wish, to; part/. 'Friendly overtures' failing, the : mother ■ decided to appeal to ■ the law; i and; after.' two, : days' hearing this week; the 'judge of the High' Court ordered that the girl should be handed \ over to her mother, at )1 o'clook this morning. j . Promptly n' ! that" houra cab "containing! the :■ mother, heiL.sohci.tor,..imdji detective drove,, into Gibbon Street, whore the, aunts and • their , niece Uve, .but ',the street.'Was, crowded vWith.; people- whoso sympathies were evidently . with -: the aunts: The ,party-entered, the house,.'and the gil'l- was discovered, in. bed clinging to the ■ . aunts. Persuasion and: legal threats were -used - in vain,- and even after a second visit, two \ hours later, the;mofhericould not obtain: pos- 1..Session Of the" ahild.v Later m the day a third visit was paid to the house, and the aunts and the-'child having resigned themselves to th'o'•inevitablei- tho latter-was handed over to th» care of.her.mother and a nurse." . -