In re Williams

Howell, V. C.

This is an application by St. Mary’s Orphanage, a Bhode Island corporation, for the custody of Kenneth Williams, a child about six years of age, now in the keeping of the respondent, *479Sara Y. Murray, of East Orange, in this state. The child was born in Ehode Island, where its parents lived, in 1894. Soon after its birth the father deserted the wife and child; his whereabouts at the present time are unknown. The mother committed the child to the care of the orphanage on October 6th, 1905, by a document signed by her whereby she relinquished and surrendered the infant to the…