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, • lIUSSErs TRIAL & CONVICTION Fut THI MURDER OF MR. BIRD AND . HIS HOUSEKEEPER AT GREENWICH. [By Express.] KENT ASSIZES. aistrositoNE, FRIDAY WIGHT, JULY 31. The intereat which this ea.e excited was so great, that so rally its five o'clock in the morning. the Court was needy filled by proems who were anxious • i n Ile i 1 rm.,11 at the trial. Among them were a num ber .of fadliou.,ldly dressed Ladies. At eight the Prtattlier, Homy. was put to. the Ida • He was dreamed io lil.clt clothes, and his general air corresi dad with his dress, Ile seem tit to li.teo with at g anxiety to the terms of the while he was arraigned p but lie h r .. trared soothing like a want of &mural, nor did he rimier the alighte4 rimming). 'rise Clerk of Arraigns read the indictment, winch charged him with the murder of George B:41 aad Mary Simmons; amid the Prisoner on called upon for his tiler, in a loud and firm toile of voice, and without the slightest appearance of tremor. replied, " Not Guilty." He looked around titan as if anxiously expecting to recognise some a...gamuts:hers, and his manner was that of a preset quite aware of the unfortunate situation in which 1w st.md, but at the some time per fect!y collected, firm, and undismayed. His s t ye. smiler was that of a genteel, anti rather an intelligent looking young maim—his complexion vs. Misr lair, but with good dark eyes, he looked 'them. lively at the Jury while each iudividual was sworn, but leer ‘yell nothing like that conscious feeling of gait whirl) in ordinary observer expects to find is the drone simur of a mosii charged with so dreadful a crone, wider all the imposing circumstances of judicial I.lyestigation, and loaded with such au ac. coin ion of circumstantial evidence, and the eon s.~urnt wright of public opprobrium. He aeem.-d, as might be naturally expected, ember raiswil, hip not iii any strong degree. Mr. B:. kie ii, tier Solicitor for the Prosecution, enterrti Court at an early hour, and, with the assist. nee« of the sylvanite of the Court, placed on the Lowe a 1 oi.d. N ioure wooden box, containing a very complete model of the late Mr. Bird's premises, at and also of the Greenwich Academy, where Litton lived, mud of Mr. itchard Smith's grminds, which adjoin the Greenwich Academy. Nearly at the Pala,' time with Hussey, Richuret Bete/tin was *wal l op d, fur feloniously killisig and slam til l ; limes Tray, at the house of Lady Barham, at Troika,. w the county of Kent. Tio• cvo,!..ce was very diffuse, but it resolved it..-11 . Pon the mere circumstance of a quart,' in tbr +errant.' hall. The deceased challenged the Ptisilitrf m light, mid they went nut, the Prisoner er.iye.g a gip; with him, which happened to be in l it , h an d, at the itionient, with which lie gave the loonier a sudden blow on the month, which threw lints His the gro sssss I, by which Ins skull was hart used h i . death eatitued. Both parties mete proved at the woe t., have liven its al ,, letzt atiXer. Verdict-I,llliter if IliaNshiesgAter.--ptientenced to a liar of Is. a. , 41 II months' imprisonment. Ai I Charles Hassey wan *gam pat to the hut, aid hi, trial commenced. Air. Peacsias read the dedication. Mr. ti•• Firalit ONOLOW owed the case to the Jim. antl in a speech of conaidenible length tailed the whole wright of circumsnencial evidence ▪ the Prim:ewe., as it appeared in the following rvide..ee, ..i.rl ',milord it with great force amid me gri.siiiy to the laces of the case. The public are already- aware of she circumstance. of ibis case. The p.ew tarts deueiled by the Learned S-iitaist were, that from the sap-mint of the Tier's, !lead where II usually lodged at Greenwich, there was a tin oct view of the roam at time opposite aide of the mired w Alr. Bard's house, where he usually wrote ..e.l kept his money, and where he might °eat en...illy he seen arranging hie Batik motes. He * id it would be shewn, that there was every limbo lahry of the murder hiving been consuiitted be. tarn', eight amid the 7,i, of February He described the mr compostices of the deceased's brother being in (!uctii, at one o'clock on the Sunday. on seeing the %Helots closed at that hour. to get iu through the bet k d,-or, *litre he found Mary Simmons lying th. 1,1. with the appearance of tiering vomited, and sort of mark nu the head winch usually de. oh • a fracture. The late Mr. Bina was also i‘l6l Iltar a table, which was overturned; • .rein Pram the situation in which lie lay, 11:1 he had hern advancing towards the female Der who appeared to have gone towards the door. also he said clear from the marks rime the dr ' persons, that the wounds were iudicted :1 11, 1 - 111 by an instrument like a hammer, Tie ` 1 1 , •% the time of the murder, it was only or 't•-nn to state that a Mrs. Cooper, about eight • saw Mary Simmons standiag at the ..r i. , 1klu it to a strange mao, and also the late llr• lard, ss if advancing near her. The de. "'abed was als o in the habit of supping at nista • Prret•ele ; and his supper, which con j.. "Itd 1011,1,811 v tut haked potatoes, was found on the Sunday untouched its the oven, tied the Slippers placed where they generally were for him to put of at supper time. The Learned Ser. kohl stated the particulars of the suspicion ILITI n fallen on Hussey, and the circumstance °r its clothes being Ittistid bloody, and marks of thßthisi g an Instituters, and the lingo being found meal imu.•hich were the property of the deceased. Ile aka stated the confe.sien of Hussey, which had leen reduced to writing by Mr. Bicknell. This a:. otatemi nt th at t h e Pri,,ther had found the l " 1 " 14 '. after with% a mats rpii tuff front hear the 'lilt %Own. it iii, That the time of the h•liimrly and molder out. short, was perfe. tly • dr, for on the f1..0r a Bank mite was 11 " 4 : the plat e i n th e par l our remoni ed un -I.°tiled, and therefore all that rensailool was for No.wy lii account for lc. mos. racioto iwiweet. right sit 4 ...c a • o . sco au II„ asII111.1sy Haw also • " 'V II "--y. in the pAst-entut the triter, that " knew swami aLruut the matter ." If the Prisoner was not connected with the transattion himself, how could he know who was or was nut ? The first witness. Alr. David Thomas. stated, that he lived next door so the tate 11r. Bird, in the High -street, Greenwich. The dec ee . e d was s h out 83 years of ag e, and kept the late Mary Simmons, ano was 50 years ohl, so his s er van t, wi tness ar rived in Greenwich at ten o'clock on the Saturday night, and nearly one o'clock on the Sunday, the brother of Mr. Bird came to him with the ;wish beadle, and expressed his astninsliment at the windows of the house being shut sip. They all then went together. and found the back port of Mr. Bird's premises all secure ; on going to the front door, they could not pick the luck. the key being inside. They afterwards broke open • pas. sage door, and entered through the kitchen win dow. On going into the kitchen, and advancing from thence towards the hall, he saw the hotly of Mary Simmons, lying with her head towards the stairs, and her feet towards the street door. On entering the parlour, they saw the body of Mr. Bird. There was • great inanity of blood in patches in the hall. and it appeared as if moved by drawing the body along the passage. The woman's head had several cuts at the hock part, and her ear was split, the banister of the entire near her was broken, and part of it will banging to the roil ; there wits also • candle nearly whole ni the parlour; it seem ed merely about eighth part burnt down. There was also a broken candle lying 'Derr Mr. Bird's body, and also his spectacles broken ; on she table was • purse or small pocket-book, which appeared to hose been opened, and a lottery ticket lying by it; there was no watch in his fob; a small penknife lay near his pocket. On going up to the little room over the parlour, he observed is large tin hoe over the padlock, and several papers tying about, sod some of the drawers of an micro lair. open. In the bed-room there was • double chest of drawers. all of which were half opriir said the things in them tinned over and left in disorder. Two or three keys lay about, odd near them were some spots of blood. The bed was made, and ready for sleeping in. The street-door was only on the spring, as if slapped to by some body going our. The table-cloth was on the sup per-table, de if for present use. Mr. Burst's slippers lay ed dose by, and in the oven there lay a few roast. potatoes, and a kettle full of water. He saw some plate taken out of a drawer in the house by a Gentleman present ou the Sunday : this spewed the haste of the person who had been iu the house and committed the murder. Cron-e.rainiced by Mr. NOLA*. They entered the house on the Southey by about one o'clock. as the people were reto►ntug frosts morning church. The bannister appeared broken, as if the woman had laid hold of it. She had seer. ral wounds about her, which looked as if ioltictrii by a blunt weapon. The places below stairs seemed to have been examined, some of the things moved from their proper placer, and others not touched ; a little table lay half turned over in the parlour. Raexassined.—The bannister which had been broken was at the foot of the stairs. Mr. Richard Smith said, he was s Magistrate of the county of Kent. re-irling io Greenwich. About one o'clock, immediately after morning service, lie was informed in the vestry-room of this murder. Ho iostassily repaired to Mr. Bird's house, where lie saw the last witness. On goiiig through the passage from the hack part of the oh. served a body lying on the floor, which was covered with a great deal of blood, that serm ed to be trailed inwards from the door to the loot of the stair-case near the broken bannister.— He also corroborated the last witness's description of the state of the house, and the sittia , ion of the dead bodies. The wounds seemed to hove been inflicted by an instrument s one part of which was blunt, mud the other riot very sharp. hut certainly not blunt. He had since seen the barmier which was found, and it was exactly that sort of instru ment which would give there wouuds. The woman had seven wounds, and the skull of Mr. Bird ap peared to be fractured. The witness had since ob served that any- person sitting at the window of the Tiger's Head, must have a view of any body examining the bureau in Mr. Bird's study. He also said that on examining some of the drawers up stair, several Bank mom sod some plate were found, 111141 many things looked as if turned round in haste and confusion. The back parlour did not seem to have been entered at all ; some twelfth-cake or pound-cake lay on the table, and there was a glass of wine poured nut. In the kitchen the ser vant's work lay where one would expect to find it ; there was a table-cloth lying on a chair, a tinder box, and Mr. Bird's slippers. On the 13th March two watches and a piece of broken buckle were de livered to witness by Godwin, the brother-in-law ol• the Prisoner, at Peckkam.—[Here the worms, de livered into Court the watches.] Cress-exanoined by Mr. ADOLPHUS. The woman seemed to have been struck in six or seven places and the mall in three. It was quite evident that the room. (except the imams') had been hastily inspected and ransacked. His exa mination of the premises occupied one wad• or an. other, about an hour; he went over the rintnts sere. ral times, and into the garden, during this space of time. _ _ Mr. Frederick Finch said he was a surgeon, re siding at Greenwich. On the Sunday he went to Mr. Bird's house about one o'clock. Mr. Bird's body was then lying on the ground ; there were two remarkable depressions or italentions on the head—. on a more minute examination on the following day he found • long fracture from the orbit of the eye to the back of the head, and there %salsa wound on the parietal hone, from which a part of t h e brain escaped. He observed at the time that the wounds were inflicted with an instrument having two ends, one a blunt cutting edge, and the other ti smooth face, just such as a hammer would inflict. The wounds certainly caused the death of the man. The woman wit% particularly struck in the forehead, and evidently with the same instrument ; some of them obliquely struck, as if with • hammer, land oth e rs directly with the cutting edge. Fit. jugu lar vent of the woman seemed bruised exactly as it might have been by such a hammer as he hall . 4 ,,ee seen; she hod also vomited : the latter was always a Dymptuin of a concussion of the head. Cress-examined by Ilk. NOLAN. lie thougot the vomitatig might be tostantatiertus brier a were blow, even though the patty was thrown down senseless. He was quite intisfled that the blows were given Ely 'a bantam with a blunt end sharp side, nr au instrument or t , "tt kind. Krzisit Bell wtid *lie laved at Greenwich, and was a wa.t H erssomo u . She used to git out oceasion- ally to do work for the late .Jr. 111;11. Mrs. Bird died about two sear. and four months before the murder. Mr. herd's hour of supper was rote and he groierallv rat potatoes; ten o'clock was Isis regular hour of going to bed, and his cur. tom was to put on his slippers alter the cloth was removed. She washed there on the Mutiday to-fore the murder was conesuitteol, and had washed 18 shirt% After the murder she maw two shirts and a white and red cotton handkerchief with the canasta. tile, which she was sure she washed on the Monday for Mr. Bird. Cake and Wine were generally kept in the house on the sideboard ; he soistrtimes love his housekeeper a glass. Cross-examined.—Mr. Bird's general bed-time we. about ten o'elipek ; hr was a very regular mail. Mr. Thomas (the first witness) was here recalled hr said that there was some fire still lighted in the house on she Suitday ; it did out, however, appear that any fresh coals hail been put on. This cer tainly appeared to him extraordinary at the time, and when lie first ohaerveol the fire, he concluded that meneloody was then its the home. Mr. SMITH (ilie Nligistrate) being examined as to the fact of this tire. said, it merely appeared to him as the remains of embers from the preceding night. Hannah Cooper said, that she hit tier home, in Woolwich, about eight o'clock, or a little earlier, On the Satufolay evening. On passing by Mr. Bird's door, she saw a man talking to his house keeiwr at the door, awl also observed Mr. Bird as if apparently coaling f the parlour and scent ing (for she saw his moods moving) to speak to the Wonilla. About a quarter past ten o'clock, as she returned by the house, she found it shut. John Litton said lie resided at the house called the Greenwich Academy. His family occupied one room. two pair of stairs up, and manlier lower 1101•11. lie was employed as a patrole at the time the murder happened. lie knew the Poisoner for about a twelvemonth ; when he left his master, Mr. Steels/an, of Vaiwittart 'Terrace, he asked per mission to leave as box at wirnews's. which lie ac cordingly did about Christmas. There were two staircases leading to witness rooms, and any body might of course get, up to the Prisoner's box without being observed by his faintly. There *own door which communicated wads a passage by Smith's house, and there were two privies, one of them by the side near the lane where lie children stied to play. There was at, mat ti ,gar rubbish there at the titue the murder was said to li we been committed. There was a casters§ close by the stair-case, which always had plriity of waiter, and the kitcheas had a pump. HP (W 11114.2,9 was • cooper by wide, and kept his tools near a kitehril which was mint u s e d. He remembered hastaa lost as hammer shortly be fore the time of 11r. Bird's. murder ; it was called a pod resetting hammer; it bail been broke a short ly before, and lie hail spliced it with three nails. He had Slate seen the liao ttttt er with the Clerk o f th e So. liritoi for die proiweiiten Hussey used frequently to coin,. in an I out often to his box, which seemed to have been only half full ; when he first left the box it was secured merely with some thin pal k thread, but when it was taken away it had a stronger cord. Witness tank it to Mrs. Goddard who was a relation of the Prosuiier's wife, said loved in Hughes's Fields, Deptford. The Prisoner alien he loved at Mr. SlevlSOn'il had the care of sonic horses and a gig, and used to go to the pond, where witoiess un derstood the hammier was found, fur water to wash the gig. Hassey therefore knew the spot very well. He saw Hussey on the afternoon of the Sunday (she day after the murder) about half-pest three o'clock, and stopped until past five o'clock, when he set out by the coach for his brother's at Peckham to tea. He said he had that day dined at Mrs. Bennett's, the washerwoman's. Witness whets lie came in staid, " Charles, where have you been ? you are quite groggy ?" He said lie had been the night before at the Tiger's Head,atid had got snore than lie was used to lwar, and that he had that day, on his way to the Washerwoman's, met a man named Jersey, and had with him three pints of hot (beer nod spirits) at the Ship and Lart—he said he after wards dived with the washerwoman. and then could not do less than give her something to drink. Ile then asked what withers had to drink—but ou be ing offered some table beer, he refused, and sent out for a pot of porter. Witness raw a pair of gaiters at the Magistrate'r, which, hr thought, be longed to Hussey. One day before the murder witness saw I lAzieton and the Prisoner to,gether, the latter was pu hog on a pair of old gaiters, which, lie said, he hail bought from the ostler at the Prince of Oratige, fur 4s. Cross•Pxamined.—He knew the Prisoner a long time, and he bore 84 very good character up to the time of this circiiinstance. The tux WS, but into a room pointed out by witness near the family bed room. The box was merely secured by a cord the whole time it remained in the housr. He never saw any rubbish in the place near the yard. On the Sunday the Prisoner was certainly in liquor.— The children or any body else might have got into the dark place where the tools were. He missed the hammer about ten days or a fortnight before the murder. Maria Litton, the wife of the last witness, saw Hussey's box when it was brought to the house; it then contained a few clothes. Her husband carried it afterwards for the Prisoner to Deptford. There was very little rubbish, and no matting in the place near the privy, certainly nut enough to cover a bun dle. She remembered the Sunday when the mur der was discovered—she believed the heard of it a little before two. Hussey came in about four o'clock, fur it was the time of their tra—he staid till about five. The woollies:. of Vansittart-terr4ce overlooked the whole et the growd where the Pri soner said Iw p o cked no the bundle. Cross-crmnisied.—She knew nothing about what Hussey might -live carried backwards and Itirwatit to his bus. When he ordered it to Deptford, he did 1,01 ask her husband to carry it, hut rent any one 'Hight be the bearer. Oil tht Sunday afternoon Finney came in, lirdlll a hit ein liquor. She knew that l►e used to wear a pair of drab-coloured gaiters. Wm. Litton said lie was a nephew of the former witness, mid entered his mde's house 011 the Sun. (lily evening, just as the Prisoner cause up to the . 1 • door. It was then about 20 minutes after three Mrs. Jane Goddard said she was related to the Prisoner's wife. She recollected the Prisoner's (*ming to her house ou the Monday r}fter the 14th of Velyitary, and remembered the.boa being left for Ilassey at her house. 'lt was opened about three or four weeks after it was left. The list thing she nark of was a silver ladle, arid then some sheets and old clothes. The things were stantl►• replaced in the box a n d corded up hcstiu. It Wit swelled again two sir three hours afterwards, in the presence of the com.table and others. Mosey went •e to the trnstk rifwi it was in her house, and Opened it. Until the tittle she mentioned nobody had opened the t►unk but himself. Cross-exansined.-11w holt WWI kept in the opeir shop, and any hotly might have haul access to it, tl gh she was stare nobody went. • Re-examitted. —She remeitilrered I-Is►ssey's say ing, ou Ilse 11th, that lie laid bought some sheets fur his wife. Thomas Goddard, the hoi.liand of the last wit• nes•, said, that the boil %tomd on its Yid in the Alo f ,. IVheis lie untied the cord mid took off the lid, he found a Pair of pittaloon•, with a wine-grimier, and some sheet* marked G. and B. There was also a jacket. Ile immediately fastened down the the truck, and sent over infornoituni of it. Cross-exainitted.—The box was deposited with out any charge respecting the care of it ; any body might have gone to it. Ile only knew the Po ioniser biller Christmas; his gener a l e n a v ue t er was good. Thomas litabory, the Prisoner's brother, said, lie saw him at rotor or five o'clock on the Sundae• the minder was committed. He had expected him that day by appointment, to dinner, at one o'clock. When he came, lie said hr lad been sick in his stomach, trout some porter he had taken. He then asked ignores whether he had heard any thing of that horrid murder at Greenwich. He said no. The Prisoner then informed hint that in old Gentleman and his housekeeper had been 'nor dered in a home opposite to where he had lodged, and he said he would have been over time enough for dinner, were it not that Greenwich was like a fair about the murder. The Prisoner's dress at that time was u black coat and waistcoat, and mixed pantaloons. ‘Vitsiess asked his brother to come to town with him the next morning, hut he objected, saying he expected William (fuming Hazleton) to come to inert him. In the evening alter he retursied from London the Prisoner said he had blipped into a ditch, ■nd dirted his pantaloons. NVitsiess lent him another pair to wear. On turtling nut his coat pocket swine !nukes' pieces of silver buckle fell out, awl as witness dealt iii vilver, he took it and paid hint at the rate of ev, an ounce. He kept these pieces until he heard that watcliee had been discovered. 11'ituess having hearth about the things, got vexed, threw them into the fire, but took them out without their being melted, and gave them to M►. Smith the Magistrate. The Prisoner bought some of his sister's things at her sale, but be did not kiwi., of his buying ally sheets. Cruss•esauiaed.—The Prisoner had been left a legacy ou the Wednesday after the murder. It was about 60/. Mr. Thomas Smith, the High Constable, said, he received the pieces of buckle from the last wit ness at Peckham; he produced them in Court. The Prisoner said they were part of the things in the brindle lie found. Mr. Richard Smith (the Magistrate) explained. that he had got the piece of buckle lie now held in his hand, ou the I4th March. from Thus. Hussey. Thomas Humtry declared he had never given any pieces of buckle to Mr. Smith, the constable. This the latter directly contradicted in Court, and declared that it was from the hands of Thomas Hussey he got them. Mrs. Godwin (sister to the Prisoner) said she lived at Peckham, where there was a box belonging to the Prisoner. %Viten she first saw it, it was full of wearing apparel, which belonged to a deceased kter. After the murder, and 'icier before, the Prisoner came to the box twice; the last time was on the Tuesday he returned from the cotiotry, three weeks after the murder. When she opened the box she found two watches and the hotel' in it. Her husband stud brother took them. She saw p si one of the watch papers the statue of Bird. Her de ceased sister had no sheets. James Godwin was the husband of the last wit. ness, rod a tailor at Peckham. His wife. found the watches iii the box, hot he did not see them there. and saw the moue of Bird on one of the watch.papers. He gave them up to the Justice. The watelwi tvere now produced. . . . George Martin Bird looked at them, end declar ed theta to have been the property of his father. He la►t raw them in his father's possession within ten days of Ins death. Due of them had been his mother's, and used to be hung up in hie tother'S ritting•room. He had also another watery; Which he constantly wore. Cross•cramixed. —The housekeeper had been 14 or 15 years in his father's serener. but he was not aware of bet having persons calling at times to see her. T. Larkin, a constable, produced a box whiCh he foutid its Mr. Goddard's shop, corded up as it was slow. It contained two shirts, two sheets; a soup Wile, a wine strainer, a pair of gaiters, a pensioner's ticket, and some clothes. He produced the pen sion ticket, which was made out in the name of Charles Hussey, as a marine. He also gave in the *heels, one of which was marked K. B. the other G. B. He produced the gaiter., jacket, sponge, &c. from the box. The gaiters had still small marks of blood visible upon them. Mrs. Litton was shewn these gaiters, which she said were the same colour as those worn by the Prisoner. It was mended in the same place that she recollected to have once sewn it for hun. Mr. Idiots examined the gaiters. and said that he could slot positively sweat to their being the Priauster'.-.lltey certainly reaesubled them iu colour. Kemal' hell was again celled. She identified she sheets as hemp; been the property of the late Mr. Bud. and said. that a shirt slow produced to her out of the hoz was Our she washed for the decanted on the Amide), previous to hitt death. The rest of the Clothe% *err she Prisoner's. . Mr. Bird wire 'hewn the .direr ladle and wine strainer, which hr thought be saw iu his father's house about s fortnight before lua death, but as at was not marked he could not posit:vely ' p P identity, though he believed Ite. Hodges, it cobstsble, prwliteetl which were 6,usitl in the Pii•otier's box.; the initials of Mr. Bird ul the.n. al.o • piece of i.ew horn wl , i. la had MN. k. (l i mn it, and a solver wiair.q.attirl. On going to the pl.‘ce a• r,eklioan %heir Ilus.e)'s lona lay, we at hie one pound and two 2/. notes on each of wlich wo. I he endorsement of the deceased, %%Inch %sus proved by Mr. !lira to be his (tuner's liasad.i.sati,ig. U t Wt ay the Ist e lnly, two men orte rintaltrard to thaw the pond et Greta. with, when the hammer he now produced wii. found. Llt owl was here called, identified the hunt. trier, a. liewg that missed foam ammo lota took, ern days Isadore the murder was committed. Jolla. Bohm', the I)eddine.tott constialtle, said Its irrebird the Prisniier, and found of))))) hint a watch and letters, which he gave to Mr. Baron., at Bow. 'me e t, Th e hi-oiler also admitted that ha low' thrown • riot , to the miss. The watch and ring were proved by Mr. Bird to have been tint property of his father. Hussey's' declaration before use Magistrate., nt Gseetrivicli, was here proved by Mr. lisekssell, for Solicitor for the prosecution, and remt to tho Court—it merely related to his statestsesst of haviox, found the bundle near the Greenwich Acusirm). The Prisoner at the time, thisegte hr odium-11 his declaration 'sus correctly reduced to orators, let refused to sign it. Two letters lOnsid on his person when rirre.ird iu Oxfordshire, were also put m usid rt . hifl ; one 10:14 addressed to his brothers itstd sisters, the other to Mr. Wrinisley. • Both contuissed a staieresent that he Will then on hie passage to Americo—had found the bundle and thing, by accident its the way al. ready described. 0 r letter contained Ova se. matkable declaration, that no imputation ought to fall on William Hazleton us he knows notitint about it." The particulars of the tracing ottt tcol arresting' the Prisoner at Deildingtoo, and of the watch sod rings being found upon hi,,,, tool Ins etinfeesion of having thrown one into the privy, wh. le It Wild af terwards discovered, were all proved by erititesses in the same manner that they have been al!taitly des. tailed to the public. Also the c rruulstaoce tut Vickery ending another ring which fell Irwin Lis boot at Buw-street. George Young said that he lived 83 servant at the Tiger's Head, Greenwich, where the Prisoner used frequently to lodge—Hazleton was a compel. nion of his, and he recollected the hose of his get. ting cut by the accideilt, when he fell over a wall, and cut his right hand. This was about a month before Mr. Bird's Murder. Hasletoo, sheet hiti hand was bleeding, came with tole Prieotter to the Tiger's HeadL.the batter Wed at , Illett dress..-il in a black coat, black waistcoat, and white trots sers.--.[Here the Prisoner's jacket, found in his box with some marks of blood, was Aeon to the witness, but he denied that the Prisoner was dreese I in it on the night of Haaletoit's.accideist, or to gaiters then.]—He did nut see the frowner until hitt-past ten o'clock on the night when Mr. Bird Wt. sup posed to be murdered ; at that time he saw him its the tap-room, and not before. Cross-exaritined.—Pid not see the Prixotier the day of the murder, Gut saw 111111 011 the night of the murder at the hour he meittiooed ; he was then dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, and grey trowsers. Witiosley; the lancila•ly of the Tiger's Head, said, that she Ow Iva attended at I h t.te b ar, and oat the night in question She saw Hussey in the lodge-room up stairs, as near as possible within a few minutes before or after ten o'clock. He might have been in the tap-ruotis before. anal she taught have overlooked him. He was dressed in a black coat, ataistcoat, cud trowsers. She could lint hear A person walking about in the tap-room from her bar, He might have been there long before she saw 1010, George Spares said, that lie was in the tap-room of the Tiger's Head oo the night an question. It was certainly past ten o'clock on that night Wine the Prisoner, who's+ he knew, came into the tap room ; he saw him again the neat mooning. Cross-examined.—The only person sits witness in the tap-room was his own labourer ; at vend others were about the room. Win. Halltbone, the Secretary of the gicicte Odd Fellow., said he knew the Prisoner, who . was an Odd Fellow, hut did not belong toalieir Loige. To the hest of his recollection mode on the alight alluded to, and to the best of hi s it . membrance Hussey came in between Moe and ten o'clock. The Lodge met before right o'clock, but the Prisoner was not Certainly there for some time after. Stephen Epsom *as an attendant on the Mem. bets of the Lodge. The Prisoner was th. re a con siderable time before the hour of Oolong the Lodge, which wilt ten o'clock. He could not !peak pre cisely as to the time he entered. 11'illtain Coulter said that he knew the Prison, r personally, and saw him enter the Lodge at about a quarter before ten o'clock, and not earlier. Mrs. Bennett said she was a washerwoman. On the Sunday When the murder was discovered, the Prisoner came to her house; and left it bi f , Ie two or three o'clock; or at the time the afternoon Church bell. were ringing. The case being now closed. The Court called on the Prisoner for his defence. The Prisoner then addressed the Court literally as follows: " My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury, I soli innocent. Satnrday, the 7th of February, at half.pvit tines o'clock in the afternoon, I went part oft he way to Old that. lOU with Wm. Haskton. We stopped at the Shi t . soil let ; I b• hese we had Iwo pinta of be.l, and inyse.l had a pipe nf tobaece. We parted shortly after, mid 1 came for the Tiger's Head through the Colleke at tot leisorc, and ar, rived there shout live o'clock, or ouinewlo tr ni us that time. reMained there tl.c lemaluder of the erelong'. or till ...veto o'clock, or so, within half an hour. Dorms the tisoic 1 was there, there was two women came tbs.. use of the consit., from 110.11 e pl..ct at a cousideo able dioanc.., for they saiii airy had 45 miles that day ; one of thimo wax mini. latigited mod fainted away; Mrs. WIMP'. y r. toys red 15... and hwlhrd her temples with vinegar, soul atierward• bi 1.112111 6. r Mead and this se and porter, and sieved %so to b. d Atc. that there was a young man came in emi sot ii. she surn.• box as myself, opposite to me; he was slrs-5.,...1 in a btu. kin and troosaese, and called for a pint of be... Tho r , tea , a y g man, by the name of Brojamin Priestley, he went tulle.• fire to alongside wr a tl u s d li inn c m en e : h . .b . i T i n h i ' ; , s ' 'C y r : a lin e n u n g h . e: i i i:sEd s lir d a le s : i t u h i t a i :i l . 3 l s i i i elr i al . r , t a : l u s I . : . t ßi o i . looked at him nod mid, be thought be hue* him whin Mrs. $ -1 Trot( to as 1 ; Isiit! Tittle wasp IT. kb of blond • . •