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Salisbury returned alone to their lodgings. She got in about 10.30. She was then in pain, and she spoke to the landlady of her condition, as she felt she might be confined suddenly unless she kept quiet. When she got upstairs, she found her sister there al ready. The servant came twice into the room after their return. The second time she fetched some brandy that she had been sent for, and on her departure Mrs. Pike locked the door. They had no baby clothes with them. In two or three hours the baby was born and was put in a dressing gown. Mrs. Crabbe came next afternoon and help ed to wash the baby for the first time. Dr. R. was sent for and came later in the even ing. He said it was a full-time child. He continued his attendance till the first of March. This doctor was communicated with by the trustees' solicitors, when Mrs. Salisbury wrote to them that she had had a child, and they suggested that she should be medically examined. She consented to be examined by Dr. R. provided Dr. C., whom she had known for some years, was in attendance. An appointment was accord ingly made for March 8, and Dr. R. came on that day but, at the last moment, Dr. C. telegraphed that he could not come. Mrs. Pike telegraphed to Dr. C. at her sister's re quest, urging him to come, but Mrs. C. wired back that Dr. C. was ill in bed. Mrs. Salisbury would not allow the examination to take place unless Dr. C. was present, and her solicitors then refused to act for her any further. She had the child registered. In cross-examination she said that she had told the, dressmaker who made the mourn ing after her husband's death to make the skirt and bodice large. There was another room occupied by two persons on the same floor at Kensington road. There was only a narrow landing between the two doors, which were opposite one another. Mrs. Pike rang the bell furiously several times and knocked at the door but no one came. She did not nurse the babv.

Mrs. Pike, whose real name was Jane Lawrence, and who had never been married, was Mrs. Salisbury's principal witness. She said that Mr. Salisbury had said to her on his death-bed that he hoped Mrs. Salisbury would not lose the baby. They drove to Dorchester instead of going to the station at Bridport, when they were coming up to London. Mrs. Pike's explanation of this was that Mrs. Salisbury could not bear to go to the station from which she had taken her husband's body to be buried at Banbury, but she admitted in cross-examination that there were two stations in Bridport. Mrs. Crabbe said that she noticed Mrs. Salisbury's condition the day she arrived, and asked her about it when she was taking her cloak and bonnet off. She was fre quently in the room when Mrs. Salisbury was in her night-dress. This witness's evi dence was very strong as to Mrs. Salisbury's condition and formed probably the best part of her case. When she saw the baby on the day when it was alleged to have been born, she thought it a new-born baby. On March 18, Mrs. Salisbury was churched according to the rites of the Church of Eng land. Mrs. Minnie- M'Cann, who lived in the house in Kensington road, said she saw Mrs. Salisbury come in on the night before her child was supposed to have been born, carrying a little dog, but nothing else. On the following Tuesday she saw the child. She was convinced that it was newly-born, and that it was Mrs. Salisbury's. Mrs. Tidy, who lived near Mrs. Crabbe, was equally convinced of the same thing. She had been in Mrs. Salisbury's room at Mrs. Crabbe's, when the former was only partially dressed. There was a great like ness, she thought, between Mrs. Salisbury and the baby. Л Mrs. Langridgc confirmed Mrs. Tidv. So did Mr. Crabbe. Nurse Stuart, who attended Mrs. Salisbury when her daughter Monty was born, and who was asked by