The Press.
London, England, 1858-08-14 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 14, 1858,_

the dock, and during the proceedings covered her
face with a handkerchief.

Mr. Cole prosecuted ; Mr. Prideaux defended.
The prisoner was the wife of a painter, residing at
St. George's, near Bristol; and it appeared, princi-
pally from her son's statement, that on the 2nd inst.
she had some slight disagreement with her husband.
Unlike the C/140 reported above, the prisoner and her
husband lived usually in harmony and happiness ;
but ou the day in qaestion the prisoner fancied that
her husband treated her less kindly than usual. On
the morning of the 3rd she got breakfast as usual
for her husband, and !tepee:red to think that he
treated her more kindly than the day before, when
the disagreement took place about the payment of
some taxes, or some immaterial matter. After the
husband hal left to go to his work nothing
more was seen of the prisoner till about two o'clock
in the afternoon of that day, when she was met in
Bristol by her father-in•law, having with her the
two children. S..enti little conversation took place
between them, during which the father'•in law
observed that she appeared to be in an excited state,
and she went on. Ahout eight o' clock the same
evening she went to a small public house at Clevedon,
kept by a Mrs. Salmon, still having the children with
her, where she had some refreshment, and left.
Nothing more was seen of her till about eleven o'clock
the next morning, when a policeman Rained Francis
met her near Nailsea. Neither of the children were
then with her. She had neither bonnet nor mantle
on. Her dress was very wet, and her manner was
wild and excited. She told the policeman that she
had drowned her two children at Clevedon, and that
she wished to give herself up. She gave her right
name and address, and detailed the male in which
she had destroyed her offspring. In consequence of
this statement the inspector went to Clevedun, and at
the rising of the tide the bodies of the two children
were washed up within a few feet of the spot the
prisoner had indicated. The mantle and bonnet were
also found at the place at which she stated she had
left them.
The cross-examination of the father•in-la v showed
beyond all doubt that the prisoner had for many
years been subject to aberrations of intellect, and
that her father, grandfather, and sisters, were per-
sons of unsound mind.

After hearing this evidonca, the learned judge
directed au acquittal, and the unhappy waaan was
ordered to be detained during her Majesty'i pleasure.

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where they were booked as " Mr. Ewenne
andio
They left the next day at two p.m. for Philadelphia,
reachioe Jones's hotel, where they were
" Mr. Emerson and wife, of Arkansas." They left
next morning for Baltimore, stopped at the Eutaw,
where they were quartered as " Mr. Eltusley and
wife." They left this next Ethernet ,e at five o'clock,
and took the bridal state room on the steamer
Louisiana, for Norfolk, whence they were tracked to
Old Point Comfort, Hygean.house, where they stopped
a week as " Mr. Elmslie and wife." They seemed to
find Old Point quite agreeable, as they staved a full
week, returning to Norfolk and to Baltimore
by steamer, stopped a day there, patronizing the
Eutaw, and left on the morning of June 28 for Phi-
ladelphia, where they
where Elliott took dinner
Eatolloodangdoodhi'as
hotel, Walnut street•wharf,
dotty sat after dinner on the balcony, enjoying the
cooling breeze. Mr. Bowyer hunted through Cape
May, but was off the track, and returned to New
York, having no trace from the 10th to the lOth inst.,
amid 4.)n the night of the 10th left for Newport, where
he found next morning the names of " Mt. Elmslie
and wife" on the registry of the Ocean house, but
the bird had again flown. Bowyer finally found that
lie hail taken Mrs. Black's cottage near the beach,
and watched the house till two p.m., but found no
bird. He then ascertained that his gentleman had
left for New York the very night that he (Bowyer)
left this for Newport. Mr. Bowyer came directly
heine, and pacing the streets all day, espied for the
first time about noon his gentleman walking iu front
of the St. Nicholas. He recognized him instantly by
the description, and kept close watch of' him. Elliott
went into the hotel, but could not be arrested during
the Sabbath, as the process was a civil one. Bowyer
kept close watch, however, and at two o'clock a.m. of
Monday knocked at the dour of the loving couple,
who were fast asleep. Deputy-Sheriff Crumble was
in company with the process. A continuous knock•
ing brought the gentleman to the door, who inquired,
" What is wanting ? " " Mr. Eltnslie." The door was
cautiously opened a little way, when Bewyer's foot
was inserted, and the ominous words " I want AIL
James Sutton Elliott " apprized the gentleman that
he was indeed wanted. A shriek from the laly did
not much interrupt the proceedings ; and Mr. Elliott
was soon lodged in Eldrige-street gaol. He is to
have a hearing, ou the application of his counsel that
he be discharged without bail.—New York Tribune.

Two DARING ESCAPES FROM GAOL, hitherto 811C-
cessful, have been tffected during the past week.
At an early hour on Sunday morning last a convict
named Thomas Forside, a man of most determined
character, who has beer' twice transported, arid is
now under sentence of fourteen years' penal servitude,
made his way out of St. Mary's convict-prison, 01111-
ham. The convict, who had been at work during
Saturday iu Chatham Dockyard with the other con-
victs, was confined in his cell at the usual hour in
the evening, when he must havu at once commenced
his operations to escape. The part of the prison iu
which the cell was situate was nearly at the top of
the buildings, and in order to prevent any of the
convicts making apertures in the walls to enable
them to escape, the ceilings and walls are covered
with stout sheets of iron of about the eighth of an
inch in thickness. During the day the convict must
have obtained possession of some instruments Irani
the dockyard, which he contrived to secrete about
his person. On being locked iu for the night, lie
commenced what would have appeared the almost
impossible task of cutting away a portion of the iron
ceiling of his cell, and, astonishing as it may seem,
succeeded in making an opening of railer more than
a foot square, just large enough to admit of his body
passing through. This task occupied hint several
hours, as it was not until between three and tour
o'clock in the morning tlia: he effected his escape.
Before quitting his cell he tore up his sheets and
blsnkeis, and tied them together to be used as a rope.
After getting through the ceiling he crawled for some
distance between the rafters and roof of the prison
until he found an opening, when he let himself
down into the yard, the early hour enabling him to
elude the vigilance of the warders. He then crossed.
the prison-yard, and by means of his rope succeeded
in scaling the high boundary wall of the prison. On
descending the other side lie was seen by one of the
coastguard men stationed at St. Alary's-creek,who
called upon him to stop, threatening to shoot him if
he did nut. The eonvict, however, ran oft; the man
firing at hint without effect. As soon as the escape
became known, a number of warders turned out to
endeavour to capture him, but so successfully had be
carried out his escape that he was not missed even
by the man on duty in his part of the prison. After
leaving St. Mary's it was ascertained that he broke
into the railway station at New Broinpton, and stole
some clothes, throwing those which he wore away,
taking the direction towards Canterbury. 110
was
followed by Superintendent Everist as tar es
Sittinghourne, where all traces of him were
Yesterday week a convict named Robert Boyd, who
had been sentenced on the previous Monday at the

~sizes to six years' penal servitude for a highway
srobbery, escaped from the gaol of Newcastle-upon-
ire. lie had been placed iu a cell situated in one
of the wings fronting the governor's residence. In
this cell there is a pipe from the roof to the draia
for carrying off the day water. This pipe is a large
iiietal one, and sunk into the wall. It is covered in
front by a deal board, which conceals it from view in
the cell. By means of a cold chisel, which must
have been thrown over the wa to him, Boyd had
forced sway the pipe, and thins got an opening
between the wall and the roof of about nine inches
breadth and fifteen
his inches in
to lenthgethroof . Thwase bathus
rrier
which prevented
removed, and raising himself on a fixture in the cell
lie bad squeezed Lis body through the aperture, a
somewhat narrow passage for a tall well-made fellow
of twenty-two years of age. In the wing where he
had been confined are several empty cells, and there
he possessed hitnself of a number of rugs. Thence
he passed by a gallery, and proceeded in front of the
governor's house to a foot-bridge; thence to another
wing of the prison, where he dropped on the ground
on a site which the gaol committee propose to cover
with additional buildings. It is an open space
between the building where the prisoners are con-
fined and the outer wall to the south-east and north.
He leaped over a wall into the stone yard, where lie
found a plank that had been used by some persons
who had been employed whitewashing, and also two
bags of teased hair. He ascended the wall by means
of the plank resting against it, and, carrying with
him the two bags of hair, he made fur the boundary
wall. The boundary wall of the prison at this point
it east and west, and the wall up which Boyd had to
ascend is about forty feet below it. The latter wall
runs north and south, and from the point at which it
intersects the outer wall it is furnished with a for-
midable chevaux-de-frise. Upon this apparatus,
which is immediately adjoining the outer wall, he
placed the bags of hair, the object being to prevent
the spikes from revolving, when, having placed one
end of the plank upon it, lie raised the other to the
top of the boundary wall and clambered ur. He
curried with him the rugs that he had brought with
him out of the empty cells. He knitted the rugs
into a rope, fastened it to the plank, and descended
itby cleverly into the street, and was free. About
hslf-past three in the morning a police officer, who
was passing down Carlisle-square, observed the rope
hanging over the wall, and informed the gaol officials.
Boyd was immediately missed, and an active search
was made for him in the town, but he appears to
have got clear of the town, and is off. Ile had been
confined in Durham, Ripon, and Morpeth prisons
previous to his last conviction, aml appears to be a
very bad character.