Esther Pay was on Saturday acquitted of the charge of
baying murdered the child Georgina Moore, at Yalding, on December 20th, after a short consultation by the jury. Every one who had followed the case foresaw this result. The truth was that the evidence amounted to a strong case of suspicion, and to nothing more, there being nothing to prove that it was not some other woman who had murdered the child in the neighbourhood of the cottage of Esther Pay's parents, in order to throw sus- picion on her. The absence of the accused from her London home on the night when the child was missed was the only circumstance which pointed very strongly to her agency in the matter, and that clearly was not enough for a conviction, especially as the prisbner's parents swore positively that they had not seen her during the week in which the crime was com- mitted, nor for many previous months.
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