The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-06-21 00:00:00

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LONDON BABY PARKING.
At Lambeth on Wade, a woman named Mar.
.garet Waters sad Harsh Ellis woes °barged before Kr.
Elliott with cruelty to • number of infant ohildres in
not providing gam with sufgeient food. There were
eleven lamas produced in court. Sergeant Eel( bound
that by &system of advertising the woman Mils, living
In the Camberwell•rosid, bas been in the habit of
adopting and "doing for' children at the rate of DS
per head, including everything. He saw a young
woman named Cobra, leave the house, and aoheequently
went there with her father, saw Min, and insisted on
seeing Miss Coben's child. Witness produced it,
dreadfully emaciated, and appearing to be dying.
It was wrapped in some old clothes. Primmer admitted
that it had bean ill, and said die was going to bare it
suckled. Mr. Cohan declared when born it was a
strong child. On • sofa in the kitchen he found gee
infante about three or four weeks old, all huddled
together, covered over with gowns and shawls. They
were quiet and asleep. nay were very dirty, and two
appeared to be dying. There were five other children
between 14 mouths and 2i years old is the back yard
playing. They were pretty well and clean. He mid
to the prisoner Waters "Are these the infanta you get
by adoption!" and she maid "Y, except ooe, which Is
mrtsistar's?' ghs had been is the four years.
m ht have but 40. Ellis said " Oh, it is more than
40, and she replied it wee not. film eould not tell
where any of the children were; they Wee. all
mate. Kim Coben's child wu taken away and pet to a
wet nurse. Kr. Edward Pope. autism, „id there
were
tow infants from three weeks old up to three months.
One,
three weeks aid, bad • bottle with oorndoar and
weipe, 'emelt was unit for a. child's food. Another,
four or gee weeks old, bad sidle, which aour and
unlit lore child's food.. Some were emaciated. some were
.There • ale boy, very thin, who had not
:=,tispyb
re weeroaThere was very little chance
of
the
ehlirdnfe 'Wing with ouch food as he foond supplied
to them. One of the children was under the iofluonos
ofanarlOtk oh it sable in one of the room' he found
bottle labelled " paregoric el" Le —a
prepazutiou of
:titant and other dings, It was lying
an memos.,
with its mouth °Poo. and apparently lifeless. Mr.
Elliott snowed • remaed for further ipq,in.„ and tho
Mf acts were wet to the "rith°4lo to be mimed and

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lag children, using Darnell 10 Guth _
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see bwar of She shadre• •saab. sod •b•t • person
would be not to take lb' children away by idiom The
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“ with the exeep.
Sion of two, prognosis( favour '4. Petermann hare
refused to v abe woes of the portage of the
aura.. on at *est seating that she would rather
troffer death at
do is. The bayym, are ,a
neseseten .4 important Information, wbiab y:fil pro.
Wily lead to sone 0017tiztroordina17 disclosures.
BY 1.111i01111,11.
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day under reatasdllbliwe at Lambeth, ea & gr,,,,„
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at baby Ispa dssiziorn.