LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 56, 3 September 1895, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

A NUMBER OF PERSONS ARRESTED. SUSPICIOUS EVIDENCE AGAINST SHERIDAN. TIIE GIRL'S MOTHER GOING MAD. This Day. A roan named Seawell and a woman named Sarah Jackson (caretakers of the lustitute) have been arrested on a charge of complicity. Miss Nicholls had been engaged for two years and a half to a young farmer who was prospective heir to a rich uncle who threatened to disinherit him if he married the girl. Previous to leaving home, she asked to bo allowed to visit some friends in Sydney. The mother objected, and hid her clothes to prevent her going. The girl was only dressed in a wrapper and underclothing when she left. After her disappearance the mother went to the lover, who said he was responsible for her daughter's condition. She had gone to him the previous day and said she was going to the city to hide her shame. He offered to marry her, but she refused. Mrs Nicholls came to Sydney on Thursday, and ascertained that her daughter had staved a day with her friends, procured clothes, and left under the pretence of returning home. An unsuccessful search ended in her reading the account of the fiudiug of the body in today's papers. Latest. The mother of the gir! Nicholls is in a state of utter collapse, and grave fears are held out for her reason. Her condition is very serious indeed. Sheridan has already served a Ions? sentence for an offence of a similar nature to this about ten years ago, when he wa3 convicted at Darlinghurst Court on a charge of being connected with an illegal operation, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. He has not been out of gaol very long, and occupied a place in Elizabeth for a few months only. Judging by the instruments, drugs, and documents found in his place an illegal medical business of an extensive nature had been conducted there. A woman named Jackson or Campbell states a certain operation was performed on the girl Nicholls on Tnebday last. The girl died on Friday. She informed Sheridan, the President of the British Medical Institute, who went upstairs to see the body, and then ripped open the abdomen to ascertain the caase of death.