HAMILTON SPECTATOR, OCTOBER 22, 1946: ‘DOCTOR RECALLS EVELYN DICK AT TIME OF BIRTH’

“About the only thing I can recall about Evelyn Dick as a baby is that she was a hard feeding case.” It was stated today by Dr. C. W. Elmore, of Beamsville, who attended Mrs. MacLean when Evelyn was born.

“There is absolutely no truth to any rumours that Evelyn Dick, now under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, John Dick, is not the child of Mrs. Donald MacLean,” Dr. Elmore said. “I attended Mrs. MacLean when Evelyn was born at the family home on East avenue, Beamsville, on October 13, 1920, and recall that the baby was a hard feeding case. This, I thought, was perhaps due to the fact that the mother was not very young and this was the first child.”

“I can not recall if Evelyn was a pretty baby,” the doctor said. “As far as I was concerned, she was just another baby being brought into the world and there was no reason why this particular case should be remembered. After all, it was 26 years ago.”

The MacLean family, according to Dr. Elmore, moved from Beamsville to this city when Evelyn was about one year old and “I never saw any of them afterwards.”