The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-08-23 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

INDIAN GIRL IN LONDON.  Mr. Cooke has had before him, at the -Ma-rylo. bone police-court, a singu.ar case relating to the 6ustody of an Indian girl, said to be under 14 years of age. The complainants were Amelia and Louisa Campbell, and the defendants were Frances Amelia Pratt and Thomas Hinckley Pankhurst, accused of enticing the child away, and the Rev. Beijamin Waugh, hon. secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, who was charged with receiving and harbouring it.— Complainants' counsel stated that hie clients, daughters of a well-known missionary, brought the child, whose name was Pyara Rama, from India to this cauutry about eight or nine years ego to train and educate. The girl was an orphan, and what was known as the family child. She was homeless and starving. Miss Pratt, who lived in the same house as the Misses Campbell, took the child to the office of the society of which the Rev. Mr. Waugh was the secretary, and which had since retained possession of her. The society,which was a self-constituted body, had not even given information about the matter to the police.—The Rev. Mr. Waugh said the child had a story to tell which he had been investigating for weeks, and he had to say that the Misses Campbell were not tit persons to have the charge of the child, who had complained of cruelty. He had informed the Scotland Yard authorities of all he had discovered. He was not prepared to give the girl up; and if he were, the girl would, he was sure, commit suicide. (Sensation.)--Mr. Cooke ordered the girl to enter the witness-box, as he had a question to ask her. As she passed across the court one of the complainants rushed forward towards her, exclaiming, I must kiss my dear child." The girl, who wore an Indian shawl over her tead, and who seemed in a state of great fear, ran away from them, and was protected from molestation by the officers of the court.--In reply to Mr. Cooke's question as to whom she would rather live with, she replied, "I don't want to go back to Miss Campbell's.--Mr. Cooke: Then you would rather live where you are?— The Girl: Yes.—Mr. Cooke said the complainants' counsel had numb better have gone to a Judge in Chambers with regard to the case. He adjourned the whole of the summonses for six ‘ieeks, Mr. Waugh undertaking that the child should not be removed out of the jurisdiction of the cout.try.  James Paterson, butler, and Samuel Taylor, book canvasper, have been drowned in the Tay, at Lmearty, about hair miles from Perth, by the capsizing of a boat from which they were fishing. Fenwick, a gamekeeper, who was also in the boat, was saved with difficulty.  A torpedo that ells lost in Stokes Bay from the Polyphemus five years ago has been picked up by a fishing boat, it having been caught in a net. The outer case of the tin is•do was considerably worn, and large holes had been eaten in it by rust, so that it was full of sand and shingle, and, therefore, practically valueless. The fishet men's nets were much torn in hauling the torpedo to tho surface, and the Govetnment have offered to make good the damage in addition to paying a reward of X 5.