The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-10-31
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA OCTOBER 81. 1884,


low bin to dark part of the street. She
did so, and he then asked if she would
take child to nurse, telling ber that she
need only treat it as her own, or that she
might if able, dispose of it by placing i,
in some work house or asylum. She
promised to prooure the advice of a
friend, and made an appointment for the
following night in the same place
Hill kept the appointment. and at that
meeting be agreed to give her ZIG year
for taking care of the child. and told her
to meet him Mt the same spot on the fol-
lowing Wednesday night. when be would
take ber to place " here she should receive
the child The latter appointment was
also kept, but Mrs. Andrews was accom-.
panied on this occasion by woman nam-
ed Mrs. Scott, alias Mary Ann Idle, who
is at present undergoing twelve months
inprisop ent in Tothill Fields Prison for
robbiDg gentleman in the street. She
added that all three went in cab to the
North western railway station, in Euston
Square, on the Wednesday night, where
they received the child az stated By the
girl. She related the conversation she
had with the girl as to how the child had
been treated at Rugby; she stated that
her friend Scott, alias Idle, weut with the
prisoner to beer shop near the station,
and there recsived Els from hin for
them to take the child away
She also stated that when she received
the child it was wrapped in shawl,
which she afterwards pledged. Brett re-
deeu ed the shawl, which vas identified
by Mrs Hill. The officer also obtained
box. which Mrs. Hill also identified as
being the one filed with baby linen, sent
by her with the child; and it was worthy
OF mention that the prisoner had, with
the object Of still further destroying iden-
tity, cut out all the marks which had been
inserted upon the infants clothing. Mrs
Andrews further stated that when the
prisoner gave bcr the child he told her
that the mother vas dead. aud that be
was clerk going 10 travel on the con
tiuent; but be gave ber neither paUe or
address. She did not believe "all was
right and ultin ately bad the child reg
i>tered in her maiden name, shich was
Furebrotber Brett tested the truth Of
that statement, and found an entry in the |
sook Of the registrar of St. Giles, to the
e feet that on The 29ib of February, 1859. I
a child five weeks old had been resistered
in the name of Albert Farebrother-the
maze given to the prisoner by the woman
when she received the child.
To further prove the identity of the .
child, Brett weot to every house where
Mrs. An4rews had lived 10 ST. Giles
from the time the child lett Rugby to the
hour of its recovery, AMI be found her
ststeDent true in every particular He
lscertained that on one occasion, when
Mrs. Andrews va sent to prison for beg
siug, the child, with her own, wss placed
D St. Giles Work house, where it rem ain
ID until she regained her liberty. when
he used it as before for the purpose Of
exciting the commiSerstion Of the public
D her begging expeditions. Scott, alias
IDLE, was seen 10 prison. and coFroborated
Ill the features of the case as detailed By
A ADdrews, alias Farebrother. Upon it-
'ccovery, unfortunately. owing to the ne
,lect from starvation and cold, it was still
lnder the careful attention of medical
men. and its ultimate recovery was by no
means certain Upon the above facts be-
ng e-tabIi- he'd Hill was arrested and held
o bail tor further rexsmination.-N Y
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