Nobody suspected her, and when delivered she was lying in the same room with her mistress.

She arose without awakening anyone, and took the recently delivered child to a remote place, and hid it at the bottom of a feather tub, covering it with feathers; she returned without any suspicion on the part of her mistress.

It so happened that it was the habit of the Darby soldiers to peep in at night where they saw a light, to ascertain if everything was all right, and they thus discovered her secret doings, which led to her trial at the next sessions at Darby.
Wagner relates the history of a case of great medicolegal interest.

An unmarried servant, who was pregnant, persisted in denying it, and took every pains to conceal it.

She slept in a room with two other maids, and, on examination, she stated that on the night in question she got up toward morning, thinking to relieve her bowels.