Quoted by Taylor, Anderson speaks of a woman accused of child murder, who walked a distance of 28 miles on a single day with her two-days-old child on her back.
There is also a case of a female servant named Jane May, who was frequently charged by her mistress with pregnancy but persistently denied it.

On October 26th she was sent to market with some poultry.
Returning home, she asked the boy who drove her to stop and allow her to get out.

She went into a recess in a hedge.

In five minutes she was seen to leave the hedge and follow the cart, walking home, a distance of a mile and a half.

The following day she went to work as usual, and would not have been found out had not a boy, hearing feeble cries from the recess of the hedge, summoned a passer-by, but too late to save the child.