Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1883-12-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE. Julia Dearn Hardie, a young woman, surrendered on Friday at the Old Bailey, to take her trial for having used nnlawful means to procure the premature delivery of a child of which she was pregnant. From the opening; statement of the learned counsel, it appeared that the prisoner was a married worries, and she lived with her husband, in thildhawk-road, Shepherd's•bush. They had two children, one aged five, and the other two and sshalf years. The motive that appeared to be suggested for thacrime imputed to the prisoner was that her busWA did not deems to have any more children. In July, the , prigoner was enceinte. At this tune the husbesid of ,tho prisoner, ,who is a commercial travener„ was -absentiin his buiiinese. A medical gentleman, named Haffenden, who resided at Kenrungtent_said he was .in the . habit of attending profealimallY tu. the prisoner. Ha had been at her house on amoral occasions between the months of 314ech, and August, when the alleged offences WM committed- That gentleman was originally included in the charge between the find and second examination*. before the magistrate at Hammersmith, during which- he had been admitted to bail, commit suicide poimmi.N. . The details are not is'ebaricr to be given to any extent. But from the evidence of a married woman named Clark, who lived next door to the prisoner, it appeared that on the 30th July, the prisoner complained to her of being ill, but in the course of a subsequent conversation that took place between them the prisoner appeared to have made no secret of the fact that she wag about four months gone in the family way, and that measures had been taken by her to procure a premature miscarriage. This event took place on the Ist of August, after the prisoner had taken some medicine that was alleged to have been of a noxious and poisonous character. After the miscarriage had taken place the prisoner became very ill, and Dr. Nickolds, another medical gentleman, was caned in. It was represented that in consequence of tie appearances that presented themselves, he at once suspected that there was something wrong in the case, and information was given to the po:ice, by whom the facts were laid before the Public Prosecutor, who felt it to be his duty to interfere, and the present prosecution was instituted by his direction. Two doctors deposed that the medicine prescribed by Dr. Hsffenden was the right one to be administered, and that it would probably to the means of saving a patient's life under such circumstances. Ultimately the jury found the prisoner not guilty. rA commercial treaty between Canada and France is ready for signature.  Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, entertained the members of the Transvaal deputati.)n at dinner at his residence in St. James's-square on Thursday evening. A contemporary hears that the Transvaal delegaes now have under consideration the new boindsry line by which Lord Derby proposes to i:s separate the veal from Southern Bis&usbnaland. It p if ' the tables in the fourth volume of the I Ge -t that there are 13 English iltti3 ' is declining. In Cornwall -yen rOP.ell nearly " - - ' In. ;  the  431 per cent.  even. it the  Out a has  they. 1 Midnearly  ... Cesplui Report imuntiel in which population decline in the last decade oeitt. ID Ryitinsdonshire has been fraetiottlows, while in Radnorshire falling-off been fl 2-sth per cent. In all other counties has been an increase, amounting in the case of dlesex (ontaide the metropolitan boundaries) to