Otago Vagrants. Thu AT’uloiiau authorities have disposed of for a time the woman M‘Donald and her family, who e case attracted some notice in Melbourne * about a month ago. It apye?,v« that she had been sent to tiie Immigrants’ Home, and her conduct there had been such as to cause her to •be taken before the Melbourne magistrates as a vagrant. The magistrates having inquired into her habits, sentenced her to six months’ imprisonment, and ordered her seven children to be confined in the Industrial School for various terms, according to their Tpc woman, on hearing tfie septenpc, threw herself upon tWhoor of the Court, and ini. ploringly screamed to the D.’iich foi meicy, while the children did their best to rival her crie-, and clung to her raiment. The juveniles continued crying for a long time after their mother was removed, and one of them said she would choke herself if obliged tg remain apart from her.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2738, 25 November 1871, Page 3
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