The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

EXECUTION OF MARY BALL AT COVENTRY.

The prisoner made a confession of her guilt to Mr.
Stanley, the governor of the gaol. " For some days (gays
Mr. Stanley) after the trial, the prisoner appeared to be very
indifferent to the awfnl situation in which she was placed.
The Rev. IL Bellaire, rector of Bedworth, visited her on
Tuesday after the trial, and used every effort to bring. her
to a sense of her solemn position. Re spin visited
her on the following Friday, and soon after his departure •
change for the better was observable in the state of her
feelings ; and to Rebecca Vernon, a woman In waiting, she
said that she had something to say, but that she would
say it to the governor, and to no one else, She also
said to two other women who sat up with her the
same night, ' 1 wish me and my husband had been senarated
before, and then 'I should not have been here.' At the same
time she repeated to those persons that what she had to
say she would tell to the governor himself. On Sunday
morning last, she said to Rebecca Vernon, that she liked
to hear the g vrernor read, and she wished to see Dim.
I immediately attended upon her, and after reading to her
a short time, eke appeared anxious to say something, and
taking me by the head, she made the following confession.
She said, 1 will tell you something.' I asked her what she
wished to say, and she replied, " I. did not like to tell any
one else hut you. I told Mr. Bellaire a lie on Tuesday last
I then asked her what she had said to Mr. Bellaire, and she
answered, ' I told him I knew nothing about it myself; but
that is false, and I will tell you all about it. I put the
arsenic on the mantel shelf, and told him (her husband) there
was some salts on the shell ; he night take them, they would
do him good, though I knew at the time It was not salts;
but I thought it he took it himalf, I should not get into any
scrape about it, for the people would think he took it in.
mistake.' (Mr. Stanley continues)—l then said to her,
' For God's sake, Ball,what made yoU do it ?' She an-
swered me' and said, ' Why my husband was in the habit of
going with other women, and nsiag me so ill; no one knows
what I have suffered ; but had I have known as much as I
do now, I would not have done it, for I would rather have
left him and went to the workhouse; bat I hope God will
forgive me.' I then asked her if any one else knew any-
thing about it, and she said no ono did. I further asked her
how she earns to say anything to her husband about salts;
to which she replied that he was mot very well, and she
thought she would tell him there was salts on the shelf,
though at the some time she knew it was not salts.
The murderess maintained her self-possession and firm-
ness in a remarkable degree to the last. Immediately after
ten o'clock an Thursday morning, the dame of the prison
appeared on the platform in front, and the prisoner was led
forth, accompanied by the governor,under-sheriff and his
officer, and the Rev. Mr. Sandberg, ladies the service for
the comaim. She proceeded up the saps with little assist-
ance, and, as far as we void observe, uttered no word while
thus awaiting her end, but, with closed eyes and saddened
countenance, stood motionless whilst the zaps was placed
round her sack. In an instant afterwards the drop fell,
and she pawed from this life in the presence of from
eighteen to twenty thousand persons. A subdued thrill of
I horror appeared to pass over this Waimea multitude as the
fatal bolt was drawn, but otherwise them was no manifesta-
tion of feeling. The victim in this dreadful peens ap-
peered to die without say pereeptible straggles or diger,
tions. It is Ann shwa Wien eneentkas at Coventry—
that of Maryggine.—Cessintrpificreeki., •

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