"Custody of Child Another obstacle in the career of four-year old Kenneth Wah, born in the United States, and who has Aravelled twice across the Atlantic and once across the Pacific, and who will recross the Pacific within two Ionths, was removed en. March 40 by' Judge M.D. Purdy in the United States Court for China. According to the Court order, little Kenneth is to be in New xork with Adopted by his foster parents: who two weeks old, a Chinese father and an American '(of Irish extraction) mother, the little Ind lived in comand a battle was custody of the child.
took little Kenneth After several months, secured passage for hi id the child for China, Mes. partment, On May 19, 1930, only one day before the President Lincoln was tions and Court action, During the same week, Mr. Wah, through Mr. H. D. Rodger, tried the local court to secure immediate possession of the child, but hi Honour ordered the Marshal to care ok him until advices were obtained from the New York courts.
Mr, Porter kept the child, Mr. Wah in the meanwhile is reported to have gone to his native village, between Hongkong and Cantor Nothing has been heard from since and Mr, Rodger withdrew from the Yesterday before Judge Purdy, Mr, J.B. Davies, representing the U.S, Marshal and ce-incidentally, Mrs, Wah, appeared and presented in' evidence two New York court documents. The first was an order Setting aside the adoption papers as far as Mr. Wah was concerned, stating that he, not being an American citizen, could not adopt an American child, The second secured Mrs, Lottie Wah her guardianship of little: Kenneth, Judge Purdy confirmed Mrs. Wah her right to cas-tody of the child and ordered that he should be returned to her.
Having been to Ireland from New York and to Shanghai from Chicago, Kenneth Wah will soon return (0 New York from Shanghai,
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