PAWNING A SON.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8757, 6 March 1907, Page 1

PAWNING A SON.

Mine. Leon tine Bernhardt applied to a Paris magistrates the other day for particulars of how to apply for a divorce against her husband, who, t she stated, had pawned her son. She said her husband was a confirmed drunkard who maltreated her, but she had refrained from making any complaint because of her son, a boy of ten. The previous night, on ' coming home, she could not find her boy. Her husband, who was half ' drunk, assured her that he had left the boy as forfeit to a wine merchant with whom he was in debt. He ' refused to give her the man's address, and when taken before a magistrate still continued to do so. " The boy belongs to me," he said, " and I will do what I like with t him.'j Is