Posted by stew - Mon, Dec 1, 2008

Gazette & Courier - Monday, May 24, 1875
Foreign

They don't have much compassion on people who kill their illegitimate children in London, it seems. A woman who put her bastard child out of the way recently was sentenced to death in spite of a recommendation to mercy by the jury.
 

Subjects: Births, Child Abuse, Courts, Crime, Criminals, English (and England), Family, Marriage and Elopement, Murder, Women