SON ABDUCTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 752, 27 August 1929, Page 9

SON ABDUCTED

FATHER CARRIES HIM OFF IN AIRPLANE

A father who kidnapped his own son and carried him off to France by airplane was committed to prison by Mr. Justice Bateson in the Divorce Court in London recently. Application was made to the court by Mrs. Francis Evelyn Adami, of Sinclair Mansions, Shepherd s Bush. Mrs. Adami (said her counsel, Mr. Bucknill) had filed a petition for divorce, and while the suit was pending obtained an order for the custody of the child. From time to time, said Mr. Bucknill, Mrs. Adami allowed her husband to see the child, and on one of these occasions, on June 22, when, they were at Westcliff, he abducted the boy and flew with him in an airplane to France. Mr. Bucknill said that beside the order giving custody of the child to the wife there was an injunction against Mr. Adami because he had threatened to take the child away. Mr. Adami had signed an affidavit giving 'the court an understanding that, pending the suit, he would not take the child out of the jurisdiction. Mrs. Adami, in an affidavit, said that ii the evening of the day when the child disappeared her husband telephoned to her from somewhere in France, telling her that he had chartered an airplane and flo-wn with the boy to France, and that she would never see him again unless she abandoned the proceedings. He gave her two hours to make her choice. In a letter to her he wrote: “Ronald is my son and 1 have as much right to him as you, but I do not want to deprive you of him unless you try to do wrong. My duty to vonaid is to let him have his mother, but his father comes first.” Mr. P. B. Morle, foi Mr. Adami, said Mr. Adami was a French citizen, and was not brought up under the shadow of English justice and had not learned a due regard for our courts. He acted in the mistaken belief that he —as acting in the best interests of the child. He now desired to offer a sincere apology. The judge Issued a writ of attachment.