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

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.--YESTERDAY.
Swots Ma. 'MSC' EIM
/1111 ALLEGED MURDER AT BRIXTON.
En..viet4 richer*. 38, was ineettd for the wilful murder
of Jams.
The p,liwner, who is a tall, very good looking woman,
wee genteelly drawled, and upon the application of the coun-
sel for the p.roriecation atm was allowed to be seated during
the trial. She appeared to pay very great attention to the
evidence of the &Herect witnesses, and frequently mat-
muskeg,' with Mr solicitor, Mr. Solomon, during the
proceedings.
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as possible state to them the eircusestaseee under
which the charge was preferred against the prisoner.
The learned counsel then proceeded to slate that the pri-
soner was related distantly to the deceased, sod she had for
11l year. lived with him in a cottage at Bnaton in the capa-
city of housekeeper and servant, and no other person lived
with them. According to his instructions the prisoner had
behaved with very great kindness to the deceased, who was
apa=mod man, until about two years ago, at which
it would appear that the deceased executed a will, by
which be made the prisoner his residuary legatee, and at the
same time also made a transfer of 1,0001. stock to their joint
maws, the effect of which would be that upon his death the
prisoner would come into the absolute possession of that
sum; sod from this time it was alleged that the enterer
had carried on • systematic course of brutal ill-treatment
towards the demised, which resulted in his death on the
10th January. He said he thought it right to inform the
jury that an inquiry took place before the coroner, which
resulted in • verdict of accidental death; but she friends of
the deceased having an opinion that this had been an im-
perfect inquiry, applied to a magiitrate, who investigated
the matter, and the primmer was finally committed upon the
present charge. The following evidence was then ad-
duced :
'lllr. Edward Charles Enna said—l am a carpenter, and
reside in Acre-lane, Beaton. Oa the 10th January last, at
half-pest four in the morning, the prisoner came to my
house and said that Mr. Jones was dead, and she asked me
to come to her house. I went to the residence of the de-
ceased, Springfield-eettage, in about five minutes, and 1
saw the deceased lying on his back on the sofa quite dead.
He was wars at age time.
Creeiteminiaed—The deceased was wrapped up in blan-
kets. I had known him (or thirteen years, and I was
aware the prisoner was hie relative. He was a very old
man, more than 83 years old, and very infirm, and was
subject to what was called chalk-stone gout. lie was so
west he could hardly get one foot before the other, and I
should think it was hardly safe to let him go out by himself.
It required great care and cannon to wait upon the de-
ceased. I never had any reason to suppose that the prisouer
ill-used him and I a heard Mr. Jones make any cm
plaint. The deceased was reported to have money and to
have many poor relations. He was sworn before the Coro-
ner. The verdict renamed on that occasion was accidental
death. The prisoner was taken into custody on the present
charge after that verdict, and at this time an attorney had
been employed. Collins was not examined before the ma-
gistrate. In consequence of the deceased's infirmities the
prisoaerwas compelled occasionally to carry him about, and I
have frequently been her washing his feet and doing other
things of the same kind for him.
Mr. David Key said—l am a surgeon, and midi, near
the cottage occupied by the deceased, and have been in the
habit of attending upon him for the last 18 years. The
prisoner has lived with him for 13 or 14 years. Oa Monday,
the 10th January, about five in the morning, I was sent for
to the deceased's house, and found him lying dead on the
sofa in the back parlour. The prisoner was present, and I
put some questions to her, and she said the deceased had
died shoat half-past three in the rimming; sad when I
asked her whether he had been there all night, she said he
was so infirm the previous night that she could nut get him
up to bed, and he had requested her to sit up with him, and
she did so, and about half-past three he asked her
for some water, and immediately she gave it to him he
died. I then asked her what hour be came down on
the Sunday, and she said about four o'clock, and that he
never went up again. I asked her if he had made any
noise like snoring in the night, and she said he had made
no now whatever—and that nothing occurred until he
asked for the water, and then he appeared to die imme-
diately. I then proceeded to make an external examina-
tion of the body, and discovered several bruises upon dif
Parent pests of the head, the principal of which were one
on the right temple, and one on the back of the head. Some
of these bream appeared ten days or a fortnight old, and
the bruise ea the nght temple was a week old, or it might
have homeless. The bruise on the back part of the bead ap-
peared to be still more receat. I also observed a wound
upon the nose of the deceased which might have been occa-
sioned by either a fall or by uleeration. There was also a
braise ea the right knee, and the appearance. of a burn on
the left knee. I observed no other external injury. I af-
terwards opened the head, and on taking of the scalp I
found several patches of extravasated blood corresponding
with the external brimless. I also found ea extrema-

tioal sad sfasioa of bleed Wide the bead, cor-
responding with the extend brakes epee the Maple.
This blood premed epee the brain, and was the meadsa ef
death. It was peals that a press miave his OMNI
up to the messed elf his death with his br is this ma.
claim I pet same spesileas to the plemer mem the so
jeer of the inieslosi Mame& eel she said dm de-
ceased hurt his ibele kg flillaggpieet ihe stairs, sad that
be was always falliap afloat Ile the lid me that he had
falim down is the garde., bat she did met sq whim this
monad. I bed attended the descend GUM We misedis
•bdme his ikedi, sad at that time I did sat sheens say
limbo' ea his puma; bat is Au t, last year, I did M-
udge meat bevies ea his face. He was 'morally a healthy
=lmp seissiag from gout. In Augustl ailed the
ISM be mom by the bruises, and the
me Melba by, aot to tell me, aed eillirreiblest de
se. TIM Oil•St gra• afterwards very absolve to is. ter
somidimg I had mid so Mr. Jones, and, she said—" I have
pt tie missy t times yea told Mr. Jones sot to do it."
I replied that I bad given Mr. Jones conseleadose advice.
I bed had minversatioss with the prisoner before epos the
sehlset a Mr. Joses's money. The prisoner coatiased to
Mess me for more than as hoar, and her ground of aager
spied me was that I had advised Mr. loses not to let her
have themesy she repined. I was the executor to the
detemed, ead I produce the probate of his will.
The was put in. It was dated the 11th May, 1850,
sed it append by it that the prisoner was made residuary
Issas, et all hie property after the payment of certain
is=e
sister mistime.

to Aorta I bad
- to au diroaree boas% Eli as sons oscuiona could
au obtain &dairies.

Cross-exasained—l made this will myself with the know-
ledge of the prisoner. She was his only attendant all the
time. I west to the house by appeiatmeat with Mr.
Joan to make the will. She originally gave me instruc-
tioae to make his will seven or eight years ago. The de-
ceased left me three hundred pounds. I have drawn
many wales besides this one. No attorney was present on
behalf of the deceased when he executed the will. The
prisoner did not abuse me on account of the legacy I
bad left myself. I believe the primmer lived with the deceased
during his wife's life time, and she attended to all
his waists. Ile suffered from chalk stone gout, and
his feet were frequently ulcerated, and this made
him liable to tumble about. I should have no
hesitation to allow a patient, in the condition
sad of the ads of deceased, to walk about alone. I
believe that within the last two years the deceased was
capable of walking to my house alone. My brother was
proud at the poet mortem examinatioe, but I had no
scieetific moistest* when I made it. The injury on the
eon had nothing whatever to do with the death of the de-
ceased. I maul say that the bruise oa the back of the
heed, had may direct effect in causing death. The imme-
diate oases of death I believe to have bees the blow on the
right temple ; sad it was quite sulkiest to account for it,
if there had hoes no other bruises. The injury on the
bosh of the beed*lettodhave occasioned coecessem of the
heeleseed We have caused the death. I believe
dim 'Shim upon the brain, wag the result of
the blew epee the right temple. A man named Collins
wee smansieled before the coroner. I think I was in the
room at the time. I have no doubt about it.

Yr. Ballaatine—Upon your oath, did you not say, when
you heard has evidence, that it would account for the
climb ?

—llißodkin objected to the witness answering the ques-
tion, on the ground that what occurred would appear by the
depositions taken by the coroner.
hir. Justice Bete rifled that the giantism might be put
Wit merely referred to an observation made by the witness
at the time.
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icalisatina then asked Dr. Bey whether upon the
witness Collins saying that be had seen the old man tail down
in t►e garden, he did not volunteer the observation that this
would Ramat for the death. _ _ _ _

I --The -;ritse7;e-,:dnaitied that he did say .o; but added
that he thought it was in answer to a quation put by the
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-111 s. &Heating then pt the gaieties is a mem formal
mass whim the witness mid he did sot remember having
said that the statement of Collies about the fall would so-
meat for the death.

Mr. lustre Rita said he understood the witness to have
already said prdtivety that he did make the observation.
The wits= said he did still think that the injury occa-
sioned by the fell, as Collins had described it, against a wall
might have 'cordoned the death.
Re-ezemisM—lletit the brutses—the ono on the temple,
emi the ether es the back of the head—might certainly
lam bemoan's& by • fall ; but it Ia impossible to state
peeitively whether the immediate muse of death was can-
aries or the effusion of blood upon the brain. In the
Termer am it would probably have been instantiate:um
Mr. Themes Hillier, a medical gentleman attached to the
Usivereity College Hospital, was then examined, with •
view Ite emeirra the evidesee of the rat witness with regard
is the oessegamess likely to result from the Wares such
had been eineribod._

as they
Cremezaininad—He had sever eves the body, and be
considered it absolutely impossible under the circumstances
to state positively what was the cause of death is this ease.
Re-rmamined—The pressure of blood twos the brain was
nedotabt sulkiest to account for the death, but there were
other canoes that would also amount for It.

dosan Allen said—l lived in a cottage next to that of the
Jammed, and was in the habit of seeing him almost every
day. On New Year's day be came to the garden fence, sad
I obsetwod he had a large lump on the right temple, sleet
tbe alas of a walnut, and above it there was a large
waned about the size of a moderate-sized teacup. rile
wooed was bleeding and appeared to me to have been in.
dieted about a day before. He appeared to be in very good
health, and cheerful, but very leeble. After New Year's
Hay, lal saw the deceased about once every two or three
milks. MI mato walk about the garden without any as-
sisting... dome time last spring the prisoner came to me
sad tea al. that Mr. loses had promised to make over a
imam& dpounds to her, but Mr. Key had prevented him
ems doing at, bat she had defeated Mr. Key, for she had
got it dons, sad as soon as the breath was oat of Mr. Jones's
body she woo tel go to the Bank and get the money. She
also said that oh' wils_tirtd of waiting upon an old man,
alw
money she would get married to a
youngholt she h
She also
had w
edacid
that she would make Mr. Jones
nokombof going from his promise as long as he lived. On
the Tbanday before the,.'meased died, the prisoner told her
that she was tired of her job •f waiting upon Mr. Joan, and
that he would ,ove,. go again where be had been the Thurs.
day before, which was to ache sneaky. I said to the pri-
mmer, " Eliaabsth, why yota alarm So. at alio; to is Mr.
Joao ?" Tbe psi/tele implied, "(Maar holaYarrtaz bit