22 APRIL 1865, Page 3

A carious ease of child-stealing was heard at Leeds on

Tuesday. Caroline Walton, wife of a cabman, was childless, and believed that her husband disliked her on that account. She therefore stole the child of one Bridget O'Connor while in charge of a little girl of ten years old. The nurse, afraid of the mother, vowed stoutly that she had dropped the child into the Aire, and the truth was only discovered by a neighbour remarking how very large Mrs. Walton's child seemed to be. Mrs. Walton before the magistrates confessed at once, admitting that she had passed off the child upon her husband. The poor woman indeed seems to have committed a great crime solely from unsatisfied maternal longing.