KIDNAPPING HER OWN CHILD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 31 August 1907, Page 3

KIDNAPPING HER OWN CHILD.

An extraoruThary case of repeated child-kidnapping has been concluded in Bordeaux by the arrest of the culprit—the child's mother. M. Baillet, a wealthy lawyer at Cinq Mars La Pile, was divorced from his wife, and the court gave the custody of their only child to the father. Mine. Baillet appeared to be resigned to the inevitable, and came to live in Paris. The child was given into the care of its grandparents, who live in a chateau on the banks of the Loire, and when Mine. Baillet discovered this she travelled to the house and kidnapped the child. Later she was arrested at Tours, and the child was restored to its father. Mine. Baillet was allowed to go free, after solemnly promising not to attempt to seize the child again. But last Octolxr her desire to have the child again became irresistible, and she kidnapped him in the grounds surrounding the bouse, carrying him off in a motor car. All trace was lost of the fugitives, and the mother lived happily with her child until all her money was gone. She then obtained a situation as governess at Cape Breton under an assumed name, placing her child in a public institution at Bordeaux. There the child was discovered by the police, and the mother was arrested when she visited the institution to see her little son.