HER SISTER'S CHILD
—-— ■ ! BORROWED FOR EXRMTION I PERJURY CHAEGE FOLLOWS | By Tclsferaja-I'ress Ai-eociaAtoß— CspyrigHt "Times" end Sydney "Sun" Services. f j London, May L . Edith Melville, aged 23 years, was charged at the Jlarvieboiio i'olbo Court t with perjury. . Counsel stated that a man named ' Hugh M'Kean met her in Leicester { Square and subsequently ended tiro s aeffaintaiH'i?. This annoyed the woman, and she t commenced to annoy liim by sending him letters and telegrams and visiting his own 'house and his friends' houses. . The culmination of the episode was an allegation that M'Kean was the father of the child she expected to have. -She obtained a. summons against M'Kean, and brought a female chilli to court, where she gave evidence that it | was lior child, and that M'Kean was i t-lia father. Gross-examined by counsel, i she refused to sfcato precisely whore- tho child was born. . . 1 The summons was dismissed, and it was subsequently found that it w;-;s her ; sister's chi'd,, which she had borrowed for tho purpose of exhibiting in court. Accused was remanded. i "'". "
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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178HER SISTER'S CHILD Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2139, 4 May 1914, Page 5
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