Her husband was away, and returned October 9, 1869.

She did not again see her husband until the 3d or 4th of January.

The date of quickening was not observed, and the child was born June 8, 1870.

During gestation she was much frightened by a rat.
The child was weak, the testes undescended, and it lived but eighteen days, dying of symptoms of atrophy.

The parents were poor, of excellent character, and although, according to the evidence, this pregnancy lasted but twenty-two weeks and two days, there was absolutely no reason to suspect infidelity.
Ruttel speaks of a child of five months who lived twenty-four hours; and he saw male twins born at the sixth month weighing 3 pounds each who were alive and healthy a year after.