The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-02 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FRAUD.

Mary Hall was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth
' Police Court, before Mr. Chance, on a charge of conspir-
ing with Annie Augusta to foist the child of another
woman upon George James Loe as his own. She was
also charged with exposing the infant in such a manner
as to endanger its life.
Mr. J. T. Moss prosecuted, and Mr. Ricketts defended
the prisoner. Mr. Gernon, superintendent of the P divi-
sion, watched the case for the Commissioner of Police,
and Mr. Moore on part of the Associate Institute.
Prisoner seemed to have suffered from her imprison-
ment. The court was crowded during the hearing.
Mr. Moss said the evidence he proposed now to call
was that to prove who was the mother of the child, and
also to chew the peculiar way in which the prisoner after
detection tried to conceal the articles used at the house
of Mr. Loe, to keep up the deception as to the birth. The
whole of the evidence given at the former hearing having
been read over,
Prosecutor, cross-examined by Mr. Ricketts, said he
had never promised the prisoner money.
Dr. Farr, re-examined by Mr. Ricketts, said the child
did not cry when he saw it washed. It might often
occur. The child was very cold, although it was in front
of the fire. He had also found, in examination of
the eye, that the pupils were very much contracted.
It was unusually contracted. This, coupled with its life-
less condition and the coldness of its extremities, made
him give it as his opinion that a narcotic had been ad-
ministered to the child.

The evidence of two servants in the house of Mr. Loe,
Caroline Saville and Emily Payne, was next taken. They
deposed to the alleged birth of the child.
Mrs. Ann Collins said she was the wife of George
Collins, who was an engine fitter. About a month since
Mrs. Loe told her she was about to be confined. and
engaged witness to be the nurse. On Saturday, 22nd
October, was sent for to go to Mrs. Loe's house, where
she saw the prisoner and the cook. Went to the bedroom
and found Mrs. Loe sitting by the side of the bed- Was
requested to leave by the prisoner, and the door was
locked. In half-an hour afterwards was called by the
prisoner, and on entering the bedroom was handed a child.
The infant's appearance did not indicate that it had been
just born. She washed the child and took it to Mrs.
Loe, who was then in bed. Had her suspicions about the
transaction, and when Dr. Farr came told him that the
child had not been born then. The child appeared to have
been drugged, and was insensible until the following Mon-
day morning. Had formed an opinion as to this indepen-
dent of Dr. Farr or what he might have said.
Witness had had no children of her own, but she had at•
tended many confinements. Had never seen a child appear to
be so sleepy as the one in question after its supposed time of
birth.

Cross-examined : Warmed the child, but it persistently
refused to take any food. Had never known a child to
refuse food twelve hours after birth, and had attended at
least 100 cases. The child did not get warm until the
Monday, and the hands remained clenched. Told Dr.
Farr on Saturday evening that she thought the child was
drugged.
Eliza Reeves said she was the wife of Thomas Reeves,
who kept the Anchor and Hope beershop. The prisoner
was her father-in-law's sister, and she attended her sister
(the mother of the child) during her confinement.
No medical man was then present, but the prisoner was
there. About an hour after the baby was born Dr.
Shillingford came, and he had been requested to do so by
the dispensary. Knew nothing of the prisoner having
advertised that ladies from the country could be confined
at her house. Shortly after the baby was born the prisoner
wrapped it up in flannels and took it away in a cab, and
said it was to be adopted by Mrs. Loe, who would take
care of it. On the Monday afterwards went to the pro-
secutor's house, and there saw the same baby.
Dr. Isaac Shortland Shillingford deposed that he at-
tended the actual mother of the child on Saturday, the
22nd October.

Some further evidence having been adduced, the pri-
soner was again remanded, bail being refused.

MR. MACRONOCHIR'S OAST.—The case of Martin
v. Mackonochie, vicar of St. Alban's, Holborn, is fixed
to come on before the Judicial Committee of Privy
Council on Monday, the 14th instant. Mr. Mackonochie
will appear by affidavit only, not personally or by
counsel.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN ANIMALS.—The return
prepared by the Chief Constable of the West Riding
shews that on Saturday last the total number of animals
diseased within the limits of the West Riding constabu-
lary was :—Foot and Mouth disease, 275 cattle and 15
swine ; scab, thirty sheep ; pleuro-pneumonia, 4 cattle.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1871.—Several
gentlemen of eminence in the musical world have resolved
to recommend to her Majesty's Commissioners that
persons having systems of teaching music should be
allowed, subject to the approval of the committee, to
illustrate such systems by lectures, or performances, or
otherwise, at the Exhibition of 1871.

DEATH or MR. G. P. TUNFORD.—The death
of Mr. G. P. Tuxford, well known in the agricultural
world as one of the chief proprietors of the Mark-lane
Express and the Farmer's Magazine, is recorded. Mr.
Tuxford was also one of the originators of the Farmers'
Insurance Office, of which he had been for many years a
director ; one of the early members of the Farmers' Club,
and a life governor of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England.
ACCIDENT TO THE EARL OF DUNMORE.—Last
Wednesday the Earl of Dunmore met with a serious
accident at Blair Athole. On that day a party of several
guns was engaged in shooting in the woods along the Tilt,
within the castle policies, when a pellet, which seems to
have glanced against a stone, struck him on the eye. Dr.
Irvine was speedily on the spot, but the case was considered
so serious that Dr. Bell, of Edinburgh, was sent for.—
Dundee Advertiser.

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