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London, England, 1851-03-08 00:00:00

'quently to go backwards and Itsrwarrls teethe prisoner's farm.
when she could not corn enough to support herself by her
needle, I need to waist her. hhe wee very ekver at &sm-
irking and stay-making, and could turn her hand to any-
theme.
By Mr. 11111Wkillf—Tbi letter is all in my doubter's
writing. It was open when it was prole/cid to me, and it ,
bad not bee% folded. On the morning my daughter was ,
mimed, I went to the prisoner's farm. Before this I bad
searched the room. When I asked for the prisoner, he
name to me, and appeared as though he had been engaged '
ta milking the rows. After I had had the conversation I
have mentioned with the prisoner, I asked him for some
pens I had left behind, soul he fetched me ouc out
ef the hen-houee, and wanted to yeah it for
me under the pump. hut I would not let hint
do so. Before I went away the prisoner gave me
mine bono•-radi.lt and some pmpkins, and I took them .
away with Ire member thatu the prisoner cut his little
Sager vary badly last hareem, and I &creed his linger fur
him, but it we. had for a time.
Elizabeth Kennerd—l was at Mr. Last's house on the
morning of the 13th October last, and saw the body of the '
dereased the re. I had previously seen the body in the field.
I helped to unarm; her between one and two in the after-
soon. I obs.vverl that her face was very black and swelled,
sad her mouth was bubbling with blood, and her tongue
was protruding from it, and clinched %cry tightly by her
teeth. Blood was shwa outing from tho nose, the ryes, and
the ears. When I took off the clothes of the decemed, I
me that her body front her waist to her shoulder; was very
black indeed, and her meek was quite laremusi by the cord
through the rein. I also observed on one of ht r wrist; the
marks of both rows of teeth, as of a bite. The impressions
of the teeth were quito distinct, and blond was oozing from
them before I washed them. It was on the left wrist that I
observed those marks, and the ell ow of the sky: arm was
very much bruised, and there was a piece of skin off it as
Urge ma • shilling.
By Mr. Clarkson—l was not examine d at the inquest,
but I told all these eirmunstances to a gentleman a fort-

prisoner's service. I remember the evening of that day I
saw the deceased and the prisoner together. It was about
half-past five o'clock as near as 1 can tell when I saw them.
I first saw the deceased, who appeared to come in the
directiou from her home, and she walked up the footpath
to the home mead till she came to a stile, and the prisoner
left the farmyard and went towards her, and they mot at
the stile. They discoursed together at the stile for about
twenty minutes, and then they parted, and both returned
to their homes, the deceased taking the footpath leading in
' that direction. I left work about 6 o'clock. My way home
led in the same direction as the deceaced'e cottage, and as I was
going along I overtook the deceased going towards her own
home. From the farmyard to the cottage was about five
minutes' walk. Before I left work I saw the prisoner in
the house, and he paid me my wages. The prisoner asked
me if I was going to Brentwood, and I told him I was;
sad he said he had a collar at the collar maker's, and he
asked me to bring it for him. I said I would. After
he hail paid me he said he must make haste, or else he
should be behind with his work that night. I had fre-
quently seen the prisoner and the deceased together before
the time I have mentioned; and I have heard the prisoner
say that he should like to " shut her off," for he was car-
rying it on so far it would bring him into trouble.
Crow-examined—The place where the body was found I
should say is a quarter of a mile from the stile where they
met. I generally left work at this time of year be-'
twcen five and six o'clock. I don't know whether the pri-1
esmer had his tea after he returned home. The prisoner
had to suckle about ten calves at this time, and that would
occupy about 20 minutes. It was drawing very near seven
o'eloek when I started for Brentwood. I did not hear any
cry or alarm as 1 was on my way there. I hare never seen
the deceased at a public-house in company with other men.
I do not recollect ever having seen her with a parasol, and
trousers and frill, on. I don't believe I ever did see her in
trousers. I dos't know what a parasol is. I don't under-
staid the thing. (A laugh.)
Re-examined—l have been examined by Mr. Woodward,
the attorney for the defendant There is a path leading from
the stile through the meadows, which branches off close to
the spot where the body was found.
Mrs. Last re-called —I never said to the prisoner that my
daughter would destroy herself, or anything to that effect.
I never heard her say anything of the sort. I never went
to the prisoner to ask him if his razors were all right.
Nothing of the sort ever occurred.
George Nicholls—l live at South Weald. I know the
prisoner. I remember on Tuesday, the Ist of October, being
with him in a field at plough. There had been a sale shortly
before at Mr. Moore's, and the prisoner said he should blow
Mr. Ilammond up for scandalising his character at the sale.
Ile went on to say that he had been to Jed Denny's house
on the Sunday niurning to get her to write a letter to certify
that the child did uot belong to him, and he added,
" George, you will hear of something very serious about
duel Denny, for she told me on Smithy morning
that she would make away with herself." I said
to him, " 1 hope, Thomas, you don't mean doing such
a thing, and he made no answer. The prisoner slipped
his plough at the end of the field, which lie ought nut to
have dour, and he exclaimed, " George, I don't seem to
know what lam about." I replied I did not think he did.
I have frequently seen the prisoner and the deceased toge-
ther, and I never saw her in compaity with any other man.
Mr. W. 11. Jenkins.—l am a baker at Brentwood. I
remember on the evening of the 12th October last I was at
Mr. 81.11ington'e gate, at the entrance of Brentwood, near-
est to Duddiughurst. I raw the prisoner on this night.
Ile was corning towards me front the Doildinghurstruad.
I volts to him first. It was about five minutes past eight
**oak. I told him I had fetched the calf away which
be had given Mr. Mellineton fur his doge, 'and he said that
was all right. I heard a clock strike nine directly after-
wards, and the prisoner then went away towards Brent-
wood.
Crow-examined—The clock that struck was Mr. Melling-
ton's. It was a good deal too fast. I was not in the pri-
son, r'a company inner than eight or ten minutes altogether.
lie was carrying a basket when I first saw him. The road
the prisoner canoe led from his farm to Brentwood, and if
his had tome from there he would have to pa. a beer-shop
called the ltising Sun. There was nothing unusual in his
manner.
James Mvllington—l am a carpenter and builder at
Brentwuud. I know the prisoner. Ile came to my house
on the night of tho 12th of October and brought a basket
and some eggs that I had ordered. It was a few minutes
past eight o'clock, and while he was in the house my clock
struck nine. The prisoner appeared to he astonished, and
palled his own watch out, and I told him he need not be
surprised at our clock striking, as it was about three quer-
ters of an hour too lust. And the prisoner then said that
his watch was twenty minutes past eight.
By Mr. Clarkson--I obserseil nothing at all particular in
his appearance or manner. My eon went away with the
peiomer.
Susan Twin proved that she knew the deceased, and that
at one time she loderisl at tier house, and that she left in
July, 1850. Sh • knew the prisoner, and he was in the
habit of visiting the fleeetevell while she lodged with her, and
he occasionally called lapin her once or twit,• in a day when
he was in the town. Latterly, however, ithe said that his
visits were not so frequsut as they were at first. The de-
ceased employed herself in needlework, and rood ueted herself
very respectably. Another young man besides the prisoner
teed to visit her.
W. S. Ilublsard depossl that he and his wife •went to live
in the service of the prisoner after the Lusts had lett, and
he proved that bete evil vie and seven o'clock in the evening
of the 12th October the prisoner went out with a basket
which had some eggs in it, and that he said he was going to
Breotworel. The prisoner took the key of the door with
him, and lie saw no inure of him until the next morning at
nix o'clock.
Mr. Williams, a surgeon, residing at Brentwood, spoke to
the uppearanees presented by the lady of the deceased upon
the post-mortem examination. The face was livid, the
eyes were P11011(11; and the mouth was also livid and the
tongue protruded from it. There were also the marks of a
deep indentation upon the throat, evidently caused by a
rope, and the death was undoubtedly the effivt of stranguln-
tion On the right 'hand there was also the mark of a bite
from Oilman mouth. The witness likewise proved that the
unhappy girl was in a far advanced state of pregnancy,
and he expressed a confident opinion that the death
was net the result of her own act, but that she !
had been etrangled Icy another person, and he also
said that her chest appeared as though it hail received ;
a heavy Wow, or RI if some person hail knelt upon
it. The witness ale, said that the effect of the pressure by
the first coil of the rope upon the trachea of the deceased
must have been to rause immediate insensibility, and it was
impossible fur her to have mule two other coil, of the rope
round her neck afterwanls. Ile had examined the ma-
sunk r'e mouth, and he had Conned an opinion in conse-
quence with reference to the bite that appeared upon the
girl's hand.
The Lord Chief Justice asked the witness what that
lopinion was ?
The with". said that from the regularity of the prisoner's
teeth and the obscure of any indentations of teeth upon
ithe hand, he had firmed the opinion that the injury corre-
eponslial, and it was of just the character that would he in-
gieted by such a mouth as the prisoner's.
Dr. Taylor pare similar evidence. He expressed a de-
cided opinion that the deceased, loom the position in which
she was found, :sad the manner in which the rope was fixed
round her neck, could not have destroyed herself. Ile also
spoke to the fact of the marks upon the prisoner's breeches
being made by blond. Ile agreed in opinion with Mr. Williams '
thatsueh :epee...lire as appeared in thin ease to have been
sens
upon the trach mus have caused ate
sensibility andea death ;t and he said that italmost wouldimmedi have been,
impossible for the deceased to have survived, or have given
I any :slam, alter the first coil of the rope was round her
neck and tightened in the manner described. 1)r. Taylor
was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Bodkin, with a
view to show that it was possible the deceased might have
destroyed herself, hut the evidence given in chief was not
at all altered; and Dr. Taylor, on re-examination, said that
he did nut we any Mason for changing his original view of
the case, that the deceased could nut, under the eircum-
stanca deposed to, have committed suicide.
It being now S o'clock, the further proceeding* in the
trial were adjourned to this morning.

night ago.
Mr. Thomes Colann—l am auperinten,lent of the Eases
ennatahulary, and ea. stationed at Brentwood. 1 remember
Mr. Kennard e'imitio to me on the morning of the 13th
October, and giving me information of the diseovery of the
body. I accompanied bins to the meadow where the body
was lying, End afterwards I went to Mr. Morris, at titan-
field, where I found the prisoner sitting by the bye with his
heck to nn. 1 called him to me, and told him I wanted to
speak to tom. and I then asked him if he knew Jael Denny.
Ili• said be did. I then asked him when he sow her hat,
and be •-atil ". Last night about half-last five, up our
no ad naked if he had heard anything about her
al, it morning, and he said he had not, hut he had
aim her mother. 1 then told him I had n•ceived
information that she was murile•reil, and it wag highly
teeenary he +hood go with me to the spot. Ile
replied, Very well ; I will gee." Before we warted, I
m&ed bon if he tool mode any appointm,•nt to meet her the
sight hewer, and he said he had not, he met her promis-
euitualy. I asked him if he had nut been in the habit of
keeping company with her, and he said he had not for nine
or l'lrßen months peed. I then went with the prisoner to
the spot where the body lay, and when we rame up to it
the priomer looked at the body but did not speak. We
were the re, shout :el 'snout. e. and the hotly of the de-cooed
was then taken to fa • old man's cottage. Before this was
done I hail taken the prisoner into custody. When the
body was meted I observed that the now was preaseil almost
flat to the face. Ido not think that the mere weight of the
bead would have been sufficient to have caused this
prremire. I had known the deceased for some
months. but it was several minut,a before I could
reseognese her, in consequence of the manner in which her
kw. was ilividourel' (1 he witnewe here produced the rope
that was taken from the neck of the deeerea d. It appeared
to he about a Tool long, and rather smeller than the little
lager.) The knot we nearly in fond of the neck, and
the bite of the moo, woe nearly under one tar. The first
coil was drawn re ry tight, and the flesh of the neck had •
swelled routed tt. 1 ~nerved that the hair of the deceased
appeared to be very much matted together with blood and
dirt, and the side of her mouth was Wisely. After the body
bad been fenny,. ,l the prisoner wage searched by a con-
stable named Leeman, awl 1 observed some blood on his
liweeielise. 'I hey were e 0.1.111 corduroy breeches. I
Baked hits low the blood came upon them. Where the
blood we. there was moisture Mot, which appeared
Saito fresh. The prisoner, in answer to my question,
'awl that it was not blued that WAR upon hi. bnechee, but
some stuff he hail had to gist, the mdse.; and when we
weal to his house, he would *how Ille the lid Le kept
stair ia Ile also mid he had a letter in his boa that would
show that the child was loot his. I had said nothing to him
about any child before he made this observation. When
Ira got to the tolesOttees place. he took me to an outhouse,
and pointed to a pot, and said that was the put lie had re-
ferred to. I looked at it, :call told him it was all urn, cob-
web.; and 1 showed it to hint, that he might we it was as.
There. WAS a 11,0011 in the pot, and that was alto covered
with eubwebe, aid could not have be en made use of far
✓ime tone. When I canoed the attention of the priaoner to
tho state of the pot, he said it had not been used fur a Wog
time. After this I weut into the prisoner's bedroom, and
I (paw his boa open, and I observed Lerman, the eons
stable, take out the letter and the envelope that
leave been produced. In a till in the boa I
found sumo pieces of rope, which I produce. They
do nut correspond with the cord fumed round th.•
neck of the elects. el, but at Hot I thought they slid.
They are about the same sew, but the web does not corns-
pool. The rope that was taken from the neck of the de-
coned was in the, constable's hand, and when 1 took the
rope from the hoz, the prisoner said, " that is nut part of
the rope." 1 afte•rwards handed over the tremors and the
pot with the atoll' in it to Dr. Taylor.
Croweezamined. I went to lefuns's house in consequence
isformation that I received from Mr. Hammond. 'When
I enquired for the prisoner, Mr. Moon- 'stinted him out to
tae inamediately. W When I first saw the body) it appeared to
me as though the head was imbedded in the ground. It
appeared to rot, as though the blood ou the breeches had
had emucthing rubbed over it, or as if an attempt
bad been made to remove it. I once stated is
evidence that the rope found in the prisoner's box apptxrnf
to have teen cut from the same pine that was round
the meek of the deceased, but I afterwar.le found that I was
mistaken. and I told the coroner so. It was weeible that
some e.ar Ole might have made, some re mark about the
poignancy of the, woman and the child, heron, the prisoner
eitd anything about the letter that was in his box.
Mr. Clarkaon When you wen• examined before the
coroner did not you swear that you had carefully examined
the two pieces oi• rope, the use taken from the neck of the
dereased, and the other from the primer's hot, and that
they corresponded .'tartly, and appenred to have been re-
cently cut, and to be part of the same rope.
Wetness—That is right.
Mr. Clarkson- Well, and do you now mean to say that it
is wrong ?
Witness—Yes, I found afterward. they were twisted in a
different way.
Ite-ezamineel —The tan pi, ces of rope in en nerd appear-
sure resemble each other sery much, and when the two
viols ore put blether they upper alike; lent urn close
ektinniation it appears that •is twisted to the' right :HA
the other to the left. The pieces of rope were subsegusinCy
ellesely examined by a ropcmaker, and the moment I disc..
sterol the mistake I went to the coroner and informed him
of the fact.
William Lerman, one of the Ewe conetabulary, said—
I received information of the death of Jed Denny in the
morning of the 11th October, and I atterwanls accompa-
nied Mr. Colson to Mr. Man's house at Doddinghurst.
The prisoner, myself, and Mr. Colson rode in • cart
to Mr. IlammonsTs house, and as we were going
along I heard the prisoner say that he saw Jae'
Denny about half-past five the previous night. Ile
and this in answer to the question that was put
to him by Mr. Colson, and he added that he had met her
about twenty roods up their mead. lie said at the same
time that he had not met her by appointment but pro-
'nocuously. The prisoner afterwards said that he left his
awn house about seven o'clock and went to Brentwood.
We' put up the horse and cart at Mr. liennani's, and us
three then proceeded to the place who re the body was lying
sad 1 unhooked the clasp of the cloak that was on the de-
ceased. The ribbons of the bonnet wens entangled in the
rope, and I was obliged to cut off the one on the right side.
I then took the rope from the deceased's neck. There were
three turns and a half altogether round the neck. All the
three whole turns were very tightly drawn. The body was For upwartLi of twelve months the poor lands of
then carefully placed upon a large field-gate, and Burwell have been the subject of considerable agitation and
taken to Last's house as steadily as it could be carried. dissension &man?, the inhabitants of the town, in consequence
I remained outside with the prisoner while the body was
of the refusal of the poor to allow the authorities to carry
being taken in, and he said to me that he had a letter in her
own handwriting that would certify that the child was not met an order made by the Court of Chancery for the better
his Before he said this, I did not make any mention of a regulation and cultleation of the said lands.
child. The prisoner then said that be had heard her mother Mr. C. M. Bide ell, surveyor of Ely, was appointed by
may that she would destroy herself, and he added that the the court as manager to carry out its order. About six
mother had come to him about fourteen day-4 before, and • months since. whsti he attempted to commence the work. he
raked him if his throes were all right, and he told her he WAS much maitre aced, and thrown into a ditch, the mob
would go and see, and he did go, mad found them all right. I declaring they would serve anybody Ore the same that came
The prisoner then said that 114: inquired of the deceased's there to interfere with their land. About six weeks sincel
mother why she asked him such questions, and she ! twelve of the metropolitan police were sent for, and applica-
answered that she had heard Joel say that she would destroy . tion was made fur the assistance of the military en the
herself, and she thought she would get at bit razors. Super- apprehension of persons determined to resist the civil
istendent Colson then came out, and told me tubring iu the authority.
prisoner, and I did so, and we searched him and found on Thursday upwards of five hundred bad assembled, in-
come money and other articles in his Pmmlaimi; and we eluding a great many females, and in the course of halt an
then proceeded tw the Ginn house, where I saw . hoar a company of the 4hth ltegirnent of Foot, commanded
the prisoner produce a pot and show it to Mr. Colson, .by Cul. Wetherell. defiled before the mob. These having
at the same time that that was the stud which had made been [allowed by about SO of the 11th Hussars, with two
the marks on his breeches. The witness then narrated the •
magastra that lieu. J. T. Bennett and A. Cotton, Esq., fur-
particulars of what subsequently occurred before the search- , real pones nn was taken of the ground by Mr. Bidwell and
tag of the prisoner's box and the discovery of the letter and I his awn. flevesteen of the ringleaders were apprehended
the rope. Oo the Tuesday after this, while the prisoner two of them committed for contempt of the Court of Chan-
vie in my custody at the police station. I remember, while eery, and five remanded until Monday for an wealth upon
be woe washing himself, ha mated me how many turns there one of the magistrates (Mr. A. Cotton) on the previous
were round her neck. I told him there were about three Friday. The rest were bailed out. Thus, finding they had
sod a half, and he then inquired if they were very tight. beau thwarted. a large number of labourersmadeLt.
I said they were tight enough to cause her death. and he cation to Mr. Bidwell to put them to work, and the rut:ta-
lon askedme if I thought whether six could do it herself. • hairy is. that for rome mouth, to mac neaflv 100 opthete
replied, I thought aloe could not, and he then said, w Well, very labourers will be engaged in the work o, levelling and
I don't ears ; I &alit do it.- cloying these lands, preparatory to their being parcelled out
Crosseenanthaed When I was esandned before the to the really deserving poor of the parish at a nominal rent
asmanet I swore that the two pieces of rope appeared to The hussars returned back tu their quarters at Newmarket..
gem
depeatioa
of
the
witness
before
the
coroner
teas
put I
month.pposed the military will remain at Burwell a
in,, mad it appeared that he had stated that he was present
whoa Mr. Colson examined the two cords, sad they both
lit=eLtina be alike.
Limo
• • continued—l have sinee ascertained
that the two pieces of rope are not alike. I will swear that
I mentioned- the conversation with the prisoner on the
Today morning in lets than a month after it took place
I misaboned it to Mr. Cohen.
Joha Harria—On the Illth October last I was ill the

BURWELL FEN RIOTS.

NOETTIEHN AND Sornreps CONNECTING RAILWAT.
—Tinterday there was • numerous meeting before his
, Honour, Master Htunphry,
to proceed with the liet ap p.'
visional committeemen brought in by Mr. Goodthap, the
, °facial manager. amounting !.o 56, the majority of whom
accepted alo .hares each. The list was partially proceeded
' with th,sa adjourned to this day.