The mother, on being questioned, frankly acknowledged that shortly after being with her husband she had lain a night with a white man.

In this case each child had its own distinct cord and placenta.
Archer gives facts illustrating and observations showing: "that a white woman, by intercourse with a white man and negro, may conceive twins, one of which shall be white and the other a mulatto; and that, vice versa, a black woman, by intercourse with a negro and a white man, may conceive twins, one of which shall be a negro and the other a mulatto." Wight narrates that he was called to see a woman, the wife of an East Indian laborer on the Isle of Trinidad, who had been delivered of a fetus 6 inches long, about four months old, and having a cord of about 18 inches in length.

He removed the placenta, and in about half an hour the woman was delivered of a full-term white female child.

The first child was dark, like the mother and father, and the mother denied any possibility of its being a white man's child; but this was only natural on her part, as East Indian husbands are so intensely jealous that they would even kill an unfaithful wife.

Both the mother and the mysterious white baby are doing well.