THE SLINGSBY CASE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 6

THE SLINGSBY CASE

4 BEFORE THE APPEAL COURT "TEDDY" NOT A SLINCSBY. By Telegraph-Prcfg Association-Copyright . London, March 13. The Appeal .Court lias decided the Slingsby oaoe. The Judges decided thai "Teddy 1 ' is the child of Lilian Anderson. . It was impossible to believe Mrs. Slingsby's story. The husband, as guar, dian ad litem, was condemned to pay costs.

[This sensational legitimacy case involves the possession of the estates of an ancient English family, descended from John de Slingsby, who died of wounds received in Flodden Field in 1513., They are at present settled on Charles Slingsby, and in the event ol his death \Hthout a son and heir they descend to two of his brothers. Tho case has given lawyers and detectives on both sides of the Atlantic much work to do. Charles Slingsby, a lieutenant in the British Navy, sought to establish the legitimacy of "Teddy," his five-year-old son. His two broth* ers claimed that Mrs. : Slingsby (an American lady) 5b not the mother of the child. Main interest is centred in Master "Teddy," a handsome little boy. At the trial before Mr. Justice Bargrave Deaitp last year Mr. and Mrs. Slingsby sought a- definite declaration that the boy wan thflir heir and wae born in 1910 at Sail Francisco, where Mrs. Slingsby was then living. On the other side, it was declared that the child is the illegitimate son of a woman named Anderson, and was procured by Mrs. Slingsby to take the place of her own baby wTio died. An important witness Was Dr. Eraser, of San Francisco. Ho testified that Mrs'. Slingsby did not give birth to a child, but- adopted the illegitimate boy of one liilian Anderson. Dr. Fraser added that he gave a certificate, in which he called the child by the surname of Slingsby, in order to protect the good name of Miss Anderson. A remarkable incident of the trial was the testimony of Sir George Frampton. R.A., the famous sculptor. He had heen asked by tits Judge to exorcise his profeosional skill in comparing the features of the child with thoso of the parents. Sir Frampton discovered that Mr. Clfa:®-j Slingsby had a round face, with a pe'puliarljr shaped jaw, which was reuroduced in the bo.v.'and *hat the child's ears bore an unmistakable resemblance to those of. Mrs. Slingsby. Assisted by these coincidences, Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane pronounced. judgment in the boy's favour, declaring, him the son and .heir. The appeal just decided was from that decision.]