CHILD'S COMPLEX.
BABY KIDNAPPED
NEW YORK, December 13. Eleven-year-old Mary Fider has a mother complex which landed her in gaol on a charge of-kidnapping and larceny.
Mary went for a walk with nothing on her mind except’ the memory of two recent arrests. She espied a baby carriage in the hallway of a house, and promptly stole it. Presently it occurred to her that there was no advantage in pushing round an empty carriage and she decided to fill it, so she climbed the fire escape and took Evelyn Gaffney, aged two, ifrom the bed where she was sleeping with her two sisters, without disturbing them.
All night she walked the streets, but when daylight came she remembered she must go to school so she parked the baby in a vacant cellar . In the meantime, Evelyn’s parents had notified the police, who organised a great hunt, and six hours later found the very hungry baby.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 8
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155CHILD'S COMPLEX. Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 8
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