WATERFORD CLAIMANT FAILS
LEGITIMACY SUIT DISMISSED. (Reo. February 3, 5.5 p.m.) ; London, February 1. The defence in the Waterford legitimacy suit is a total denial of the plaintiff's allegation. Witnesses swore that the son of the fifth Marquess was stillborn in March, 1873, and buried in Brompton cemetery, and later buried in its mother's grave in Ireland. Plaintiff suggests that i,he body of another child was placed in the coffin. The register of the Holborn Workhouse (produced) showed the birth of a child named John Tooth, alleged by the defence to be the plaintiff. _ The case was dismissed, the Court deciding that the claimant was not tho child of Lady Waterford.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 117, 4 February 1918, Page 5
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