FAMILY DESERTION.
' (BY TELEGRAPH—press association), Wellington, Last Night. The Supreme Court was occupied to clay hearing the charge against Mrs Sarah Jones, a widow, of having deserted her children. In summing up, the Chief Justice said he understood that the Crown would not press the count for desertion, but relied on the other counts for leaving the children and failing to provide them with adequate means of support. If the woman failed to provide children with adequate means of support and went beyond the colony, to his mind the mere fact that she believed that the Benevolent Society, which was supplying them with the means of sustenance, would continue to do so did not prevent the committal of the offender. Legislation might be inadequate to meet the case, but it did not seem to be a reasonable thing that the mother should say, " Well, here I have three or four children on my hands ; the Benevolent Society is providing for them, and as there is a lot of work to be done for them I will go elsewhere." The jury found the accused not guilty, and she was discharged.
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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 338, 8 September 1898, Page 2
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