KIDNAPPED BABY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 40402, 16 January 1930, Page 4

KIDNAPPED BABY.

OUT OH MOTLLEH-LOVH

MAGNANIMOUS PARENTS.

The unusual spectacle of a man and woman pleading for mercy for the kidnapper of their infant son was witnessed in the Magistrate’s Court at Brooklyn, Hew York, recently. : Moved by a passionate love for children and the iiope that she eo»uld deceive her husband into thinkping that the baby ,was tiers, Airs. Irene Hoover took the child of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Barney from its • •perambulator. Mr. Hoover accepted the child as kis own until he read a description of the missing infant in the and his , wife confessed. Meanwhile Mrs. Barney had suffered a nervous collapse through the loss of her son, and had published a description of his special diet in the hope that the kidnapper would use it.

Mrs. Hoever returned the baby to the mother, whereupon she was , arrested on the charge of kidnap>ping. In Court Mi-. Barney said lie and his wife freely forgave the prisojier and wished to make no charge. ' “Her mother’s heart has , suffered enough,” he said. I The prosecutor, however, declared that a crime had been committed against the (State, and the

! magistrate held the woman io £2OO bad for further hearing. .Mr. Batriek Gurney, grand father of Ihe stolen boy, furnished the bond, and h,. and his son took the licensed woman home in a taxi-eab.