It appears that Mr. and Mrs.
by were in Victoria, B.C., in the summer of 1910, and in August of that year Mrs. Slingsby left on a visit to Ean Francisco. There she met a woman named Hattic Blain and, according to the respondents, together they visited the California Lying-in hospital and inquired for child. suitable for adoption, Mrs. Slingsby being reported to have said that she would take " girl if the could not get a boy—that shb|- was willing to take "anything she could get." Nothing seems to have come of thi application, and it is alleged thi jlingsby then made @ similar seneirae to the Associated Charities, a department for foundling children in Jackson Street, San Francisco. Here also, she was unsuccessful in ga child, and the application was withdrawn.
Another Mrs. Slingsby." When in the course of later quiries this institution came to be visited, it is said that the record of the application was found to be "mutilated" and that Mrs. Slingsby had made a request that it should be removed from the books. Grave doubts were expressed as to whether the woman who made this application really was Mrs, Slingsby, and his. Lordship insisted that the proof would have to be direct, observing that, if the case were one of fraud—that is, of conspiracy against Mrs. Sling-by—a female detective could have
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