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Case 3583

2. Letter from Miss Gibbs, St. Dunstans 10 March 1893

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child's boarding out in Wraxall, got tired of it & took the child to Bristol (about 7 miles off) where she deliberately lost the child in the sheets there. Fortunately A [?] was taken to the police station & Mrs. -- sent for her back to Wraxall so no harm was done, no thanks to the lady! The case is evidently not such a bad one as some, though it seems there is no prospect but the workhouse for A if we do not

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