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PLEAD GUILTY.Wadsworth, Sentenced for Adultery.Last Friday, Thomas Birkbeck and Alice Estob, a Wadsworth couple who have been in the county jail for the past ten days charged with adultery, were arraigned before Probate Judge Richards.Both plead guilty, and were fined |T0 and coats, and to spend ten days in jail.The couple came to Wadsworth from1daJda1TuIovlt;Broi1AkBdaIburLondon, England, last «oven.uer, aimthe man found employment in the mines.They had two small children, one of whom, it in said, belonged to the man *nd the other to the woman. They had been at Wadsworth but a short time, until the little girl belonging to the man, bu died suddenly, and there are some } very ugly rumors afloat to the efl'oct jn that the little one was badly treated, and it may come out that it died from the results of bad usage upon the part of its f)a foster mother. It is reported that the 1 child had no dangerous disease, and at when neighbors were called in to prepare the body of the little unfortunate for J Tt burial it was found to be a mass of bruises from its shoulders clear down its back.1reiThe arrest on the charge of adultery was made at the Instance of the deserted | or wife back in England, who has two children with her. Shortly after Birkbeck | in reached Wadsworth, letters were received from his wife giving the state of af-1 a , fairs, but no attention was given the matter, and the couple were allowed to remain unmolested. In the wife’s letters «he stated that the woman was unmar-roofried, and that the Couple had eloped.The prosecuting attorney had the remains of thechild exhumed and the vis- j w cera sent to Columbus for a chemical examination. | olSaturday last the prosecuting attorneyreceived word from Columbus that a. wquantity of arsenic had been found in j C€the child’s stomach, and this makes thecase look serious. It is said, however,that a large quantity of embalming fluid was used and that fact may account forwinthe presence of the arsenic.Judge Nye will come over from Elyria, | riFriday, a special grand jury will be im-oaneled. and the mattfer probed to thedibottom. In the meantime it is well to ol.suspend judgment. di
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Medina Sentinel
Medina, Ohio, US
Thu, May 10, 1900
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