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"the World Against Her."

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Agnes Wallace Villa Company played "The World Against ller:' at New Haven, Gonn. A correspondent relates the following: 'ihe Judge of the Court there had a front se it, and it w as noticed by the audience that in the affeciing scènes of the play, tears constantly trickled down his cheeks. A sensational trial had been in progress that week, of which the following is the motive: A prominent citizen had betrayed a young girl of the village The father, (a married man,) to hide the secret, gave the child to a farmer's wife in the 'country. Stie had no children. Four years elápsed and the wife of the betrayer died. Soonafter,the husband married the motlier cf the child, wbose whereabouts slie did not know. The couple were riding on the outskirts of New Haven, and met the farmer, his wife and their adopted child. The mother by intuition or instinct, cried: " There"s iny child! " and springing f rom the buggy, attempted to take the young one by iorce. The farmer's wife refused to part with it, saying, " I love it as well as if it were my own, and you cannot have it." The mother cried, "It is mine, and I will have what my heart has hungered for for years I " At present the case is in the courts here. The Judge, after seeing Agnes Villa's rendering of Madge Carlton, was heard to remark, " 1 have decided the case th it has troubled me so much night ; and day. That child goes back to its ) mother." This play will be produced at the Grand opera house Thursday evening, Marcb 18.

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