The Nevada Democrat., 1861-10-29
The Romancers OutdOne--StOry Of Eng
gllsb High Life.

The ROmancers sOutdOne-StOryo OF hnB-
gIIsb High Life.
A very strange affair has just come to
light In English high life, the principal in-
Cidents of which are given BY the London
correspondent of the Bulletin:
Several years ago one Richard Guinness
Hill, said TO be a nephew OF the celebrated
Guinness. brewer aud banker IN Dublin,
married grandchid of Sir Francis Bur
dett She was young, handsome, wealthy,
aud favOrite neice OF the richest heiress
10 the world, Miss Burdett COutts. For
some years the couple were chldless, but
at the beginning Of 1859 the lady found
herself about to become mother, and as
she was anxious her child should be born
in London, removal from Dublin,
where she was then residing with her hus-
band, was proposed. On the journey to the
metropolis the lady was taken Ill At Rugby,
in Warwicksbire. aud there was just time
TO remove her into wayside beershOp,
when an heir to fortune of $40, 900 a year
was born, and here ii is that the interest Of
the story commences.
BY the marriage settlement IL would ap.
pear that Mr.. Hill was to have life inter-
est in bis wife's fortune, but by will she
made subsequently, he was to inherit the
whole. absolutely, in the event OF her dying
without surviving issue. Now here was
bar In the way of his coming preferment,
and be seems to have planned accordingly
for Its safe removal carefully avoiding tho
vulgar aud dangerous method OF mnrder.-
First, he proceeded to the Registrar OF
Rugby and had the child entered in false
name, giving bis own aud bis wife's name,
also false. His next endeaVOr was to pur-
suade his wife TO have the infant sent out
TO nurse--a common enough practice in the
case Of fashionable ladies--and be proceed.
ed to London to make arrangements for
that purpose. What these arrangements
were may be briefly stated as they were put
In evidence. He accosted woman begging
in the Haymarket aud struck up bargain
that for $50 year she was to take the
child. She might put II in the workhouse,
take Il out with her on her begging expedi-
tions, OF do anything she liked with Il, so
as she kept it out of the way--he represent.
ing himself as commercial traveller whose
wife was just dead, and who could not bur.
den himself with the bringing up of the
child. Incredible as Il may appear all this
Is we'll c0rrObOrated.
The mother was written TO that oil was
ready, aud the infant was sent up to Lon
don 10 charge of q young country girl. A
plentiful supply of clothes was sent with it,
aud It was wrapped in a valuable shawl,
which The girl was told to bring back again.
Al the Euston.square station the father met
the girl, and with him we're two women
whom the girl could accurately describe,
aud one of whose names she even heard
To these women the child was given IN.
aud the shawl--an important link In the
evidence-was also carried of. The girl on
her return to Rugby reported that she did
not think the child was Ia proper hands !;
and Il was with some difficulty that Mrs.
HUI was re assured at the time. AT inter-
walls, the mothers uneasiness respecting her
infant returned, and this uneasiness in.
creased when she found that no entreaties
on her part could procure o sight of her
child. All sorts Of subterfnges were resort.
ed to by the husband. He told her Il was
dead. then that the nurse had gone to Aus.
tralia and taken The boy with her. Quar-.
rels ensued, gross ill.usage on his part, and
at length separation. The case was then
put 10 the hands Of the police, and after
patient aud l0ng-continued search the WON.
an was found out In one Of the lowest dens