AN EVENTFUL CAREER
... CHARGE OF KILLING A CHILD. At the Somerset Assizes at Taunton, before the Lord Chief Justice, Rhoda King (45), and Annie Bartley (22), laundress, were indicted for killing Mary Amelia Bartley, aged 11 months, at Frome. The infant was the illegitimate daughter of the younger prisoner, who lodged with King, and paid her 4s. a week for looking after the child while she (Bartley) was at work ...