Then the local newspapers latched on to the story and discovered Mary Ann had moved around northern England and lost three husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother, and eleven children, all of whom had died of stomach fevers.
地元の新聞各紙は、メアリー・アンが北イングランドのあちこちを移り、夫3人、恋人1人、友人1人、母親、多くの子を亡くし、その全員が胃の熱病で死亡したことを調べ上げた。