FULL TEXT: The New York police are after Mrs. McLeod Martin
[Mrs. Elizabeth Starr Keefer Martin], wife of a prominent physician. She will
be prosecuted for fraud. Last May she left her husband, and six months later
notified him a baby had been born to her. The doctor denied the child was his.
An interesting fight took place in the courts, with the baby as star exhibit.
During
the trial public sympathy was strongly with Mrs. Martin. At its close a nurse
confessed the child was spurious. Mrs. Martin is believed to have worked the
deception in order to obtain dower rights on her husband's Scotch estates.
[“Police After Mrs. Martin Wife, Who Tried to Palm Off Bogus
Baby on Prominent Physician, to Be Tried for Perjury.” The St. Paul Globe
(Mn.), Mar. 15, 1903, p. 22]
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