The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-04-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

GIRL.  The case of the Queen v. Miss Oyngall omit, before the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, for judgment. The question involved had reference to the custody of a girl of between 14 and 15 years of age, who had been staying for some time past at an establishment at Weymouth, of winch Mis-. Oyngall was the proprietress. A writ of habeas corpus had been obtained by Mrs. Austin, the mother of the girl, and Miss Gyngall having made a retort to it, the Court had to decide whether it was a good return or not. In this return Miss Oyngall said she Was merely a lodging-Louse keeper, and that the girl was perfectly free to como or go as she pleased. She, however, brought the girl with her consent within the control of the Court. The case for the applicant, a dressmaker and ladies' maid, was, that the girl in question was the issue of her first inarrisge with a man named Haushea.r, who deserted her. After his death she married William Austin, who bad been valet to the Duke of Connaught and the Earl of Durham. Austin died and Mrs. Austin asserted that after she bad gone to Paris to take up an engagement, leaving the child in ts,ndon with instructions that she should be sent bat to a Roman Catholic convent at Brighton, she waf sent to a Protestant convalescent home kept by Miss Oyngall at Weymouth. Both the mother and the father of the child were Roman Catholics, and it appeared that through the infElel)oB of the Rev. EIIISOUeI Davis, vicar of Emanuel Church, West Hampstead, in whose parish Mrs. Austin lived for some time, the child when ailing Lad been previously sent to Miss Oyngall's, an undertaking being given that her religious opinions should not be interfered with. On the other hand, it was said that when the mother left London for Paris iibe told her daughter that she was not to go back to Brighton unless she liked. The girl, it was said,declined to go to Brighton, and appealed to Mr. Davis to send her to Weymouth, and the roe. ' gentleman wrote to Mrs. Austin saying he should do so if she had no objection. No 'newer being, it was said, received, the girl was accordingly sent Ito Miss Oyngall'a. Miss Hausberr had since changed her religion and become a Proteatant, ard was now a pupil teacher at an undenominatieual school at Weymouth, where she wished to remain. The suggestion of the applicaut was that the girl's change of faith was due to prcselytlam, hut this was strongly denied by Wm Oyagall,the girl herself, and others.—Mr. T. Terrell appeared for the applicant, and Mr. Baker for Miss Glyngall.—The Lord Chief Justice raid that anythirg like proselytism was entirely absent from the case, and came to the conclusion after Boeing Miss Hausherr that it would be cruel to remove her from her present position. He, therefore, held that the return to the writ was a good one, and the writ ot habeas corpus WU discharged.  A telegram from Belgrade reports that the wife ot the President of the Supreme Court at Kragurevatir has been murdered, and her body terribly mutilated. The perpetrators of the crime have escaped.  Re-won't statements to the effect that M. Guy de Maupassant's health had undergone a change foe the better are, s Paris correspondent says, unfortunately untrue. He is in what his doctor calla a vegetative state, and incapable of connecting two ideas together or perhaps of conceiving a single ens s rongly He s. ems to suffer from cold, the hot weather notwithstanding, and sits wrapped up in blankets and shivering in a corner. He shows a pr. ference for corners, as if afraid of receiving a thrust in the back. Two keepers watch over him. His yacht Bel Ami has just been sold.  The Rev. Dr. David Doudney, who had just dosed his 53rd year as the editor of the Gaspe, Mitering, has died at his residence, Southsea. - • -  A singular incident is related in a recent report from the Dublin Golf Club. A player, in striking off, killed a lark at the distance of 30 yards. The bird has been stuffed as a curiosity. Dr. Kohler, the private secretary of Cardinal Vaaisry, who, at the risk of his eau life, saved the latter from being stabbed by a servant on the episcopal estate, has been decorated with the Ur,ler of the Iron Crown.