WAR WIDOW’S FEAR.
V The story of a war widow’s dread of the consequences of having been deceived by a married man was told «t ■Dewsbury, Yorks, when Busauah Dent was remanded on a charge of having abundoxied her baby at Birstail, three miles from her home in Dewsbury. iriVjpt. Burraclough said Mrs Dent’s husband died of wouuds. AVitli her portion she struggled„suecessfully to make a comfortable home. Then a man took advantage of her by falsely representing that he was single, and when a baby was born five months ago -Mrs Dent was afraid of losing her pension if the Government learned of its birth. He believed her statement that fear of becoming destitute through loss of her pension was the sole reason why she l left the child in it passage adjoining a Birsfall house.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 19 July 1920, Page 4
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137WAR WIDOW’S FEAR. Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 19 July 1920, Page 4
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