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  under the name of Mrs McCarthy.

had a child in Brisbane and that
Burns her brother in law was the father.
I cautioned Const Martin not to
mention it to the public as I did not
believe it. I subsequently ascertained
this rumer [sic] was public property. I
never having at any time mentione [sic] the
matter to any person.
Sometime later on Miss Sarah
Ann Doherty came to Ebagoolah by her mothers
instructions. Soon after her arrival
Mrs Doherty endeavoured to borrow
money from me for the purpose of
going to Brisbane to bring Mrs
Burns to Ebagoolah as Mrs Burns
husband was in an asylum. I refused
her the money & she subsequently
borrowed it from Const Martin and a
miner named John Walter Frost. Mrs
Doherty went to Brisbane & returned
very soon with Mrs Burns & her
five children, Mrs Burns travelling
under the name of Mrs McCarthy.
Early this year I heard that
Mrs Doherty had accused Mrs John
Boyd of Maluna Station with having
spread a report after her return from
Brisbane last year that Sarah Ann
Doherty had had a child in Brisbane
to her brother in law Burns & Mrs
Doherty stated that Mrs E.J.F. Smith
of Ebagoolah had told her so.
Quite recently Mrs Doherty
accused Edward Crow of Ebagoolah
& Mrs Angus Robertson of Wolfram