Murder Under the Extradition Act

CHARGE OF MURDER UNDER THE EXTRADITION ACT.

At Bow-street on Thursday, Isaline Milliond, alias Marie Rhoda Anderson, was charged on remand, before Sir Thomas Henry, under the Extradition Act, with having murdered George Henry Milliond, aged five years, at the Victoria Hotel, Rouen, on the 13th May last.
M. Adolphe Moreau, Counsel to the French Embassy, attended for the prosecution.
It will be remembered that at the last examination, Mr. Superintendent Williamson, of Scotland Yard, deposed that some notices which had been posted in France, and some of which were sent to England for circulation, also supplied the information that the body of a male child had been found in a cupboard in the Victoria Hotel at Rouen. It was alleged that it had been put to death on the 13th of May; but by a woman who had given the name of Marie Rhoda Anderson, and who had left the hotel the next day. The notice further stated that a warrant had been granted by the French Government, and it contained a description of the woman and the child. The notices were sent to various towns in England, amongst them Eccleshall, and Sheffield, in which place, at a villa called the "Woodlands," the prisoner resided as nurse.
The depositions taken on the last occasion were read over, the first being that of Mr. John Jackson, who proved that in consequence of the information he received through the handbills, he went to Eccleshall, where the prisoner resided. Her master produced her, and witness told her who he was, and that he should have to arrest her on suspicion of murdering her child. She replied, "No, I did not." Witness took her to his office, where she wrote down her name (Milliond), and that of her father, who, she said, resided in Switzerland. She then said, "I loved my child far too well to kill him. But that night he was so ill that I did not know what to do. I pressed him to me, and on looking at him for a little while found that he was dead. Not knowing what to do, and having no means except what I wanted to bring me back I left him in the hotel, knowing he would be found some day. We were both sick on the boat, or we should not have stayed at Rouen, and I don't know where we stopped.
On Thursday the examination was proceeded with.
Eliza Ward, wife of John Ward, of Eccleshall, said she was appointed by the prisoner to nurse her child, which was one year and eight months under her care. When the prisoner took the boy away from her she said she was going to take him to Switzerland, where her father would receive him. In April of the present year witness had a conversation with the prisoner, who said her father would take the child, provide for it, and educate it. Witness never saw her afterwards.
Adelaide Smith, a fellow servant of the prisoner, gave similar evidence, and the prisoner was remanded for the arrival of the French depositions.

Source: The Sun & Central Press, Friday July 11, 1873, Page 5