On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children, &c / by William Hunter.

  • William Hunter
Date:
1829
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Credit: On the uncertainty of the signs of murder, in the case of bastard children, &c / by William Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    made, that conduct will be set down as a proof of her guilt. To be convinced, as I am, that such a case often happens, the reader would wish perhaps to have some examples and illustrations. I have generally ob- served, that in proportion as women more sincerely repent of such ruinous indiscretions, it is more difficult to pre- vail upon them to confess; and it is na- tural. Among other instances which might be mentioned, I opened the bodies of two unmarried women, both of them of irreproachable and unsuspected cha- racters with all who knew them. Being consulted about their healths, both of them deceived me. One of them I sus- pected, and took pains to prevail with her to let me into the secret if it was so; promising that 1 would do her the best offices in my power to help her out of the difficulties that might be hanging
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