CURIOUS CASE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2053, 3 August 1875, Page 3

CURIOUS CASE.

:' Judging by a case that occurred in the ! Supreme Court on Thursday, a father will have to be-careful--as,4o sending his children to a^Tboarding school ■«., because, when heyants to get them bftpjcj"charges may tS be made against "some of \his~family, which the: Supreme Court" will gratisly entertain and consider, when that Court is invoked to order the restoration of the children—-not to thememberibfth^ family whose .conduct usK:rightly iifftS^ipv. gly, j impeached by- a strange^^BtilKiio the' father, againstiwhom -there is no'pretence of any; oversee'r^lt 1 Mr at .Rockbank, sent < -two: girls ;?-one 12 and tfie -. other 8 \ years old — last Japuary£tq a : young.; ladiesVestaMJfJi- ; mwit^etit iiy a : Mrs jGedyetg VsH^|rall^d'; to||ak<yihem ;ajf ay.' ; ';ias:t^ w©ej^,;--.-ai^a^i|?-:n^W;fdr i:th-em^as"ii%fused^*sl«ire^ra's some dispute as to whether he had agreed to leav^.ijie .children atthescho.Ql.fpr six months''bV'tw^lVe ; '-tn'dritns,"jbiiit';int6;.that point of the :djspute : the, Cptirt. would hot enter. , : It was said, however, Ihat Watson had stated that his wife was a daiigerous.Junatic, owing, to drink, :and tfcat he intended getting her sent to tne Yarra Bend. Strange to say, tlie Supreme Qourt considered that this was an allegationutha't Watson" Had. to"answer Before they couldohold.himto be .a safe; person to be.entrusted with, ; his daughters, and-he had;to swear thatythough his wife had at one ' time lately been .a little :out of h'6r mindy this ;wa,s owing to. an attack of puer.pSraFfeyer: This was held to 'be'^a sufficient answer to the charges made by the Gedyes/Jand Ithe 1 Gourtdirelcted the cbild.r'en .to .be.r restored to: Mr Watson .— Australasian;'" ;''.' '^;: "■'■•;' -^ r: n