The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1853,

I shall know when to cane to if I want any assistance, but I
I toll yew he will go where he was last Thu eday,
though be into and drinks very well, I shall be glad to get I
rid of my job." Oa the Friday before the deceased died
the prisoner was in the front of the deceased's house very
drunk, about 11 o'clock at night, and I heard hes say that
I if she had been at home when Mr. Key come she would
have kicked him out. She appeared Wry this to a police-
man who was standing by her. The prisoner after this mud
" Old Jones, cold Janes, let so in." In about half an hour
the door opened, and was shut again immediately. After a
short time the policeman went away, but returned and
helped the prisoner up, and the door then opened a second
time, and the prisoner went in, and in a few minutes I
heard a heavy fall in the passage, as thottilt some person
had fallen down. After this I went to bed, end about 7
o'clock oa the following morning I heard the door
of the deceased's house shut, and when I got
up I found the house entirely closed, and all
the shutters shut sad the blinds drawn. In a
short time the prisoner came out and gave some money and
drink to some musicians who were playing, and they went
away. I heard no noise in the deceased's house all the
Saturday, and on the Sunday morning at nine o'clock I
saw the prisoner again. On this morning the postman had
brought some newspapers, which he threw into the garden
at the back of the deceased's house, and they remained
there all the morning. About one o'clock, when I came
home from church, I saw the prisoner standing at the
window of the deo-seed's bedroom, and I ambled to her,
but she took no notice of me, and I observed that she ap-
peared very agitated. I heard no sound whatever in the
deceased's house until the Monday morning, when the
alarm was given of the deceased being dead.
By Mr. Ballantine—l was induced to listen and to pay
some attention to what occurred, because I was afraid that
Mr. Jones would be murdered some day. I had not been
on good terms with the prisoner at one time, bat when all
this occurred we were very good friends. The prisoner was
very drunk on the Friday night end tumbled about, and
the policeman picked her up. I get my living by letting my
lodgings. One of my rooms was occupied by a lady's ser-
vant. The lady took the lodging for him. 1 went into his
bedroom on the Tuesday night to look out of the window.
I saw what took place when the prisoner was drunk. I
have another lodger, who occupied a room adjoining to the
house of the deceased, and that lodger is very deaf. My
father is very much &elided, and I was engaged in at-
tending upon him • and I was up nearly the whole of the
Friday and Saturday night before the deceased died. The
wound upon the head of the deceased appeared to me to
have been indicted by some heavy wooden instrument.
I think a broomstick would have done it. The wound was
bleediag, bat I should say it had been inflicted the day be-
fore. I don't think it was the wound that made the de-
ceased so jocular. (A laugh.) The blood was running
down the deceased's arm. I did not offer to render hint any
assistance.

Re-examined—On New-year's evening I heard the pri-
soner beat the deceased, and I also heard her say that she
would kick his life out of him. She had been out all day
getting drunk, and when she returned I heard her may to
the deceased, " Did I not tell you not to show yourself
when I was away ? You will go out the moment my back is
turned, and you will be letting old Key in, and it you do, I
will kick him out." After she said this she beat him on the
face. I knew it was on his face by the sound. I heard the
deceased say to her that her conduct in going out as she did
made her look like a bad woman, and the prisoner replied.
" What do you call me ? I'll kick the life out of you ;"
and she commenced beating and kicking him. I could tell
she was doing that by the sound. I did not hear Mr. Jones
say anything more, and shortly afterwards the prisoner
went out.
By Mr. Ballaatioe—Ail this occurred after I had seen the
deceased in the garden, and when I had observed the
wound in kis neck. I expected Mr. Jones would be mur-
dered, but yet I did not interfere. I had been told that no
one would have a right to enter the house unless Mr. Junes
called out " Murder." Mr. Key told me this. I was
standing at the garden fence when I heard the prisoner
beating the deceased. I thought that an old man of 84
was being beaten to death, but yet I did not interfere,
or alarm the neighbour or ende to obtain any aside-
tanee. I endeavoured to obtain all the information I could
for Mr. Key. If the deceased had called out " murder," I
should have gone for the police. The beating and knocking
lasted for half an hour, and the deceased began to groan a
goad deal at last. I stood by all the time close to the
windows of the room where the beating was going on, but
did not endeavour to look in. AU the brooms in the
deceased's house were broken, and I have no doubt that
they were ell broken about the bead of the declared. Upon
the occasion in question she appeared to beat him about the
bead with a broom-stick, as hard as she could. All I heard
the deceased say was, "Oh don't, oh don't." I did not
interfere, because I thought it was the duty of the relatives
or the executor of the deceased to do so.
At the close of the cross-examination of this witness the
court adjourned for the purpose of enabling the jury to
take some refreshment. The ease for the prosecution was
then resumed.

Mrs. Maria Hammond, another neighbour of the deceased,
proved that upon one occasion she was awoke in the middle
of the night by bearing a hoise in the cottage of the de-
ceased, as though some one had fallen on the floor. She
likewise deposed to having heard' great deal of angry talk,
and she roseguised the voice of the prisoner, and h sod some
one my, " Bh!—what ?"
Mrs. Fanny Gray, who occupied another cottage up to the
end of December, proved that upon one occasion she board
the deceased cry " Murder," and she also several times
heard the prisoner and the deceased talking about money,
and she once heard the primmer say, " Give me the money,
and let me go." Very soon afterwards she heard a noise
as though one person was beating another.
By Mr. Clarkson—When the prisoner asked for the
money, the deceased replied, " Pray dont leave me."
Re-examined—After the deceased said this, witness
heard a groan, and a sound as of a heavy fall, and then it
appeared as though a stick was placed against the wall.
John Grant, a policeman, proved that about the o'clock
in the morning of the let of January he was on duty in
Acre-lane, when he sew the prisoner come out of the house
of the deceased and go to that of Mr. Evans, and when she
came back he bade her good morning. She appeared to
have either been drinking or to be very much excited.
Mr. John Jones, nephew to the deceased, deposed that he
was 84 years of age. la August last he was at his oottams,
and the deceased was about to make some communication
to him, when the prisoner came-into the room and be
stopped. He went to the cottage four or five times after
that, and the prisoner told him he should not go in. The
last time be went was three weeks before his death. Upon
hearing that his uncle was dead he went to see the bode,
and on °Meninx the marks of violence that were upon it,
he oaken the prisoner bow they occurred, and she made
him no answer. _