AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2941, 19 July 1878, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day.

John Edmund Kelsall was charged at the Police Court with failing to cont/ibute to the support of his illegitimate child by Emily Jane Birdwood. Mr Tyler appeared for defendant. Mr Pardy said Vie parties had lived ,at the Thames and kept company. Defendant promised to marry plaintiff. He went to friends at Onehunga where the seduction took place. Afterward the defendant, finding the girl enceinte, offered to send her to Sydney r.'.'d give her *eu pounds. Complair.pnt

said, after leaving the Thames, defendant invited her to Onehunga. Witness de scribed the seduction near Mangarei bridge, also in the Domain. Letters from defendant were put in, breathing sentiments of affection. She told him of her condition. He replied, she was to gel someother fellow. In one letter, defendant signed himself " your attentive husband." He also sent a valentine with the verse : " I promise you, my dearest Jane, that you shall be my wife ; to live within a cottage free from folly and from strife." When told ho was the father of the child he grew colder. .

The Ec,y. Mr Tomlinson said his attention was called to the case by Mrs Smith cf the Thames. Defendant denied being father of the child. The. Court was of opinion that letters and evidence were sufficient, one going to prove that a seduction took place in a certain locality. Defendant then deposed that he was.an iron moulder, at the Thames, and was out of employment. He had intercourse with her at the Thames, but not since. He refused to acknowledge the paternity of the ch'ld. Case proceeding.

John Kelsall, father of the defendant, gave uuimportpnt testimony in respect of the date of entertainment. The Court adjudged defendant to be the putative father of the child, and ordered bi:a to pay 10s per week towards its support ; also £5 expenses and cost 3, birth of child and case, and find securities for the payment of the san?e, or in default to be imprisoned for six months.