Child Sold in London.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 32, 12 January 1884, Page 7

Child Sold in London.

The sale of an infant in London has created some commotion in the newspapers of the metropolis. A distinguished-looking woman made a bargain with a young unmarried woman for a fine bouncing boy, to be sold to an unknown party in the country for £40, the mother to have the privilege of seeing her child every two months for the first three years, except during the winter, when it would, be travelling on the Continent* In the course of a few days the mother and her intant met the strange woman at a railroad station, according to appointment, and there, in one of the waiting rooms, the little one was stripped of his old clothing and bedecked in a new fine Bui& When it came to the money transfer the purchaser pretended to have forgotten to bring enough money, and offered £5 on account* balance to be paid as soon as she got home. The mother accepted the part payment and parted from her child. On the following day she received a telegram stating that the infant had been safely lodged in its new home, but no remittance parae to hand, either then or thereafter. The mother-, suspicions ivinu aroused in the course of a couple of dayp, she examin yl the telegram closely a< d discovered in thj course ot subsequent inquiries that no such address existed as that given in the telegram. The police are now endeavouring to find the strange woman and the twenty-five-dollar infant. A singular incident in the affair is that a little brother of the child\s mother was some years ago stolen irOm his home, and the grandmother of the infant is much incensed at her daughter's conduct, seeing that the litt ] c one was under her (the grandmother's) charge, and, as she said, filled the place of her stolen boy.