SOLD FOR SIXPENCE.
At the Thames Police Court recently a woman entered the witness-box with a plump, well-dressed little girl in her arms and asked for advice. Some few years back she said she took a fancy to the child, whom a man sold to her for 6d. She had kept and clothed her for three years and a-half, and now the man came forward to claim her. She had no husband, but was well able to maintain the child. The magistrate remarked that the child looked well, but the law did not give him power to say that she could keep the child, or that the person who claimed -her could take her away. The only person who could decide whether she or the man was entitled to the custody of the child was a Judge at Chambers.
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Evening Star, Issue 4217, 1 September 1876, Page 3
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139SOLD FOR SIXPENCE. Evening Star, Issue 4217, 1 September 1876, Page 3
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