A Curious Case.
A regular Solomon's Judgment will have to be-' given in a New York case, in a suit' by Miss Mai Hard, who recently accused one Levy ol being the father ot her child. He declared that her child had died, and and that she had got another to personate it. To this >'iss Maillard replied that it wasn't her child but another woman's — Miss Sheehan's — who died. But Miss Sheeban claim* - the dne now in Miss Maillard's possession as her own. The Sheeban gill says she gave the baby for adoption to Jessie Maillard, Jessie's bavin u died. Jessie asserts they (she an^i Miss Sheehan) exchanged babes, and and that it was ber adopted baby that died, and that her own proper but illegitimate offspringAs the identical one who played such a prominent part in Court during the trial. To determine which of the women is the mother of the child is the question at issue, for if the child be Jessie Maillard's she car: not be found guilty 0 f porjury. It would seem, therefore, that change of babies -does not take place only in " Pinatbre," but iv re.d life as well
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 24, 2 August 1883, Page 3
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196A Curious Case. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 24, 2 August 1883, Page 3
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