At her trial she said she did not see her babe breathe nor cry, and she thought by the sudden birth that it must have been a still-born child.
Shortt says that one day, while crossing the esplanade at Villaire, between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, he perceived three Hindoo women with large baskets of cakes of "bratties" on their heads, coming from a village about four miles distant.

Suddenly one of the women stood still for a minute, stooped, and to his surprise dropped a fully developed male child to the ground.

One of her companions ran into the town, about 100 yards distant, for a knife to divide the cord.
A few of the female passers-by formed a screen about the mother with their clothes, and the cord was divided.

The after-birth came away, and the woman was removed to the town.

It was afterward discovered that she was the mother of two children, was twenty-eight years old, had not the slightest sign of approaching labor, and was not aware of parturition until she actually felt the child between her thighs.
Smith of Madras, in 1862, says he was hastily summoned to see an English lady who had borne a child without the slightest warning.