A Borrowed Child.
QUEER CASE OF PERJURY. YOUNC WOMAN IN TROUBLE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m.) London, May 1. Edith Melville, aged 23, has been charged at Marylebone with perjury. Counsel stated that Hugh McKean mot her in Leicester Square, and subsequently ended the acquaintance. This annoyed her, and she commenced to annoy him with letters and telegrams and visits to his house, and to his friends’ houses, the affair culminating in the allegation that McKean was the father of a child she expected. She obtained a summons and brought a female child to court and gave evidence that it was hers and that McKean was the father. Being cross-examined, she refused to state precisely where it was born and the summons was dismissed. Subsequently, it was found the child was her sister’s, and which she had borrowed for the purpose of exhibiting in the court. Accused was remanded.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10, 2 May 1914, Page 5
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155A Borrowed Child. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10, 2 May 1914, Page 5
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