BABY-FARMING CASE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

BABY-FARMING CASE.

WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 18th, 5 p.m.) LONDON, January 17. Annie Walters and Amelia Saoh, the defendants in the baby-farming case, have been found guilty and sentenced to dleath at the Old , Bailey. The ohaxge against Annie Walters and Amelia Sach was tlhat they acted togetherone wae an acoeasory before the fact—in the murder of an unnamed child born on November 15th, oif a young woman named Galley. Mrs Sach kept a " private nursing home," and was described by counsel for the prosecution ac "a lady irtro got children from young women wfoo oould turt afford to keep them, and employed Mrs Waiters to take them to wealthy ladies who adopted them." For Miss Galley'e child she received £25, and it wae taken away by Mrs Walters. The latter was tracked by a detective and found with the child dead in her possession. Mre Sach wae to dispose of another child to a wealthy lady far £100. The father paid her £30 in bank notes, and after sending a lodger to purchase a bottle of dhlorodyne and somie carbolic acid, the woman took the child away, and its mother never saw it again.