The Express.
London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

WESTERN CIRCUIT—WINCHESTER, M•aca 5 & 6.
Crowe Coorr.—Before W. Jostles 7ftillants.
CHILD MITILDI/L—Mary Ann Bet 4, aged 39, was
indicted for the murder of Thomas Be , her eon, aged
thirteen months.—Mr. Pcralden proiecu .—Mr. Missing,
at the su of the learned jedge, undertook the de-
fence.— he circumstances of the nee were of a very painful
nature. The prisoner, who lived in Tredgold-buildings,
Portsea, was the mother el several children, and had been
blind for the last wren years. The family had been, for
some time past, in a state of extreme distress, owing to the
brutality of the prisoner's husband, who spent the greater
part of his earnings at a beershop, and was otherwise
dissolute in his habits. The pressure of want, added
to the disgraceful conduct of her husband, had caused
the prisoner great uneasiness, and she often complained of
violent pains in her head. On Friday, the 22nd of January,
between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, she was seen
suckling her baby, and she then exclaimed, " Oh, my head
—my poor head !" This was said to a neighbour who had
called to inquire shoat her health. A few minutes after-
wards she desired her eldest child, a girl Mem years of
age, to go end (Melt her father from the public.
home. Tile girl did as she was directed, and she re-
tained 111/0 i• tall her mother that her Inbar would
arse abaft bet that he was drinin is eimpeny
with the wenn with whom be was Wein&
_The
child that the baby was not in ile mother's
Sr.. se aimed how where her brother Tammy
was, sad the replied that he wee aisle. The
women hit the beethwaliti by bor
Al.
end mid she " le Mit • pollesmen he that
hence," to the women who we. then is her
inebeers eempsy). The deed led bee mean to the
starkesheemi, end the there aid lee pelimann, . I ea
eons te en wear up as • saertheer. I have atealered
my that" The girl told the sortable he yeast not take
=mein of mint her mother said, as she wee out of her
The earner anted the woman to explain what she
mast, end el she penned in her et amen, he asked her
where the child was, end she said she had /nee it, and it
was wenn Whirl the hew. Leaving the lIIIIIM at the
Madteshome, be west
hind
the bra" MI NI Oaf.
lag a nem egreltim *hi lying se the
Geer with a handhasthist tied tighdy need he neck. Oa
rennin/ the handkerekie4 a link nub was observed, end
a nap= who was called la *AM that ate nark indicated
the mass ot death. It amend item the endows of the
Wen daughter, that the pen wean bed neap hen a
hind nether to her children, bet that it men time potion
to Oh ealbeleaate ocoonemie she bed not eelleint hod to
senatethem They had Heed ape thy need, and the
bed stated that she Midi net wan ha baby, es samba
wee afraid it wend not have solhiset nenek ai to sap-
-1 It.
illnesses was also gives to thatshertly alter
the birtk et do and the prliew had bass to a elan of M-
imi, awl that the eeriest et herlithilend was ealeohled
tgoemlban reams of the
posed of neledy. Thejoey se-
ar en tits
Osumi es blacitits. aged SS,
was indielad cite billing and slaying Hengayeateia at
Peeleneek ea the Nth Oehler len. lir. far the
; Mr. Kasen he the defame. It amend that
asil.pireir wee a poor attlirsslealn, awl in the Amnon
of the Nth ot Weber, be went to a at Um&
pen ter the pigpen et baying etas kedge lb knee
zed meet Yew door_ . IA id tone of
bur beendazimcwhig thin 601111111 Mil away banked
down the who was a likeena• area needed to
thellill at Pannonia. The is ribs wen baeliam,
and the With, he mein' win of arairhas a thaw clef
he died thenly disewards. It was !then that the been wee
a peer eathen eine HD ram Om N. Ups then hob an
=Lspeanisa Anse as te wholime, tumble of km, the
s ipilty of ataadsoulder. Tbe we hod been
sailed ea helm Me Justin Ormerell, end Ms WY* W-
anted that. IF the primer Win Nirrided, he dwell "Nene
the quake of law fee the miWea et the 16 judges. The
Wei, benivert. no peenhal with behest Mr. Jenne Wil.