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London, England, 1851-10-13 00:00:00

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Mr. Lawrence, surgeon, who attended the prisoner during I
her confinement, deposed to her being delivered of a small,
but h. lathy, female child; and also to his having seen a
gentleman at the house, whom he understood to be, and ad-
dressed as Mr. Slater. Mr. Crosby, who was sitting at the
table, was here identified by the witness an being that sew
tleman. Witness was called in on the 12th Seglathee
see the child. It was much thinner than whoa he UN it
last. It had lost flesh, and the skin was wart iNatei
from the loss of subcutaneous (at. The child was she'
suffering from what appeared to be whitensouth ; the
pulse was sharp, and about 120 beats in • minute.
Ile examined the mouth, in which there were two,
small liken on the gums, where the two upper canine'
, teeth usually appear. There was ahu a peculiar *4l
appearance about the lips and the osseous membrane et
the mouth, but more particularly on the lips, which he
had not usually observed consequent in whitemouth.
also examined the buttocks of the child, and found en
eruption there which came forward to the lowest past a
the bowels. It had not the appearance of the uniform
nose attending ordinary cases of diarrhcca. lie prescribed
for diarrhea. Witness saw the child Ull consecutive days
up to the Ibth inclusive. It wan getting better. Un the
Alth he saw it again in the presence ut the Filo:incr. She
seemed vexed about the child, and wept over it, and
wished him to attend it. She asked his opinion, end he re-
plied that the child had been very ill, but that he had no
doubt of its ultimate recovery. She then, leaning over the
child, said same words to this effect My dear, I must
Mr.

showing
bowels were
upon eruptions on the
buttocks had returned. The whitemouth had also returned
again very badly, and the skin of the body was much
shrivelled. He prescribed as fur a case of irritation of the
stomach and bowels, but not as fur diarrhira. The neat
morning be was with the child fur two hours, during which
time it had no symptoms of vomiting, and appeared
better. He saw it again the same (Tuesday)
evening, and it was then worse in every respect than
it had been before. It was constantly retching, its costa•
tenanee more anxious, and the skin of the toms, and
mouth covered with the white eruption similar to whit,.
mouth. The pulse was about 120, small and wiry, indi-
cating extreme irritation of the constitution. lle saw
nothing in the state of the child on Tuesday morning to
lead hint to expect to find it so ill in the evening, but
quite the contrary. If lie had had no previous knowledge
of the history of the child he would have been quite unable
to account for its increased illness that evening. They
were such symptoms as would, in his opinion, have re-
sulted from some irritant having been administered. Ha
had omitted to mention that on the 30th of September he
noticed a pccular rash on the body of the child ; it wax
covered with spots as though a flea had been biting it. The
spots were on the child now, but were only to be seen by
ce inspection. Each pimple had a depression in the cen-
tre of it. Dr. Davies's attention was called to the eruption
by witness, and everything had been done by them to save
the child's life. He had seen the child this morning,
sad it appeared as if it would die before the day
was over. The waness deposed to receiving the prepared
tests from Mrs. Searle (as stated by her), and to some crystals
hating been obtained front them upon their being analysed
by himself and Mr. Tyler, which crystals were subse-
quently proved by Mr. Ilerapath to be arsenic. As wit-
ness was going to Bristol on Tuesday morning ho met the
prisoner at the railway station. She appeared very excited,
and said she had received a letter from Mrs. Searle that
morning, stating that the child was very ill. She said,
" Mrs. Searle says you have taken away one of the teats;
what did you do that for ?" Ile replied that there was
something peculiar about it which he wished to see. She
then said, " What do you think of the child I" He replied
that it had been very ill for the last day or two, but it was
then better, and that with great care it might recover. She
asked if lie thought a wet nurse would be any use to her ?
He replied that he thought it would be of great service.
She said Mr. Slater could not leave by the train she had
come by, but would bo in Bath by three or four o'clock,
and that be wished particularly to see him (Mr. Lawrenc),
and she strongly urged him to be there. Ile told her he
would if he could; but he was not back in time.

' The :Mayor here remarked, that in coriseTuenee of the
serious turn the caw had taken a longer adjournment thea
was at first contemplated would be necessary.
The prisoner wee then remanded till Thursday next.

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BERMONDSEY.

A catastrophe, if not similar in degree, at least
similar in character to that which so recently occurred
at Camberwell, and some particulars of which appeared
in Saturday's Express, took place on Friday afternoon
last, in Bridge-street, Bermondsey New-town. The parties
concerned moved in a very humble sphere of life, still the
occurrence, Lamentable and fearful, as will be seen by
the subjoined proceedings at the inquest, caused consider-
able excitement in Bermondsey, thickhead, the vicinity of
'f unl ey-st re ct , and in she Borough.

On Satunlay, at half-past three o'clock, the inquest wu
held by Mr. W. Carter, coroner fur East Surrey, and a
jury of 14 parishioners, at the Fleece, Great George-street,
liennondscy New-town.
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Robert Sutcliffe, a bootmakcr, living in the same house
with the deceased persons, said—About half-past four on
Friday afternoon, the little girl, Harriet Newman, was
wanted by me, and Mrs. Staines, the landlady of the house,
called her, and she went for a loaf of bread for me and
' brought it. She was then in good health. Having exe-
cuted the errand, she went up stairs to her mother's room
on the first door. In about five minutes she came running
down, screaming, and crying "Oh, dear!" Upon this my
wile opened the door of our room, which is on the ground
floor back, and the little girl ran in. I saw that blood was
streaming down her person front her throat, and said
" What's to do ?" She replied, " Mother has done this."
I jumped up and said, " Olt, dear, her throat is cut !" Mrs.
Staines, the landlady, came running in from the back yard
and said, " (io for a doctor.' As I was going
the little girl followed me, and as soon as she
got into the street she fell into the arms of
a female—Mrs. Horn, living next door, whose son went for
medical assistance, which arrived in about ten or fifteen
minutes. She was then carried up stairs and put into •
warm bath, and I understand she died in ten minutes af-
terwards. The name of the father of the child is John
Newman, and he is a mason's labourer. Ile was not at
home when this happened, and there was no one there at
the time on a visit to his wife. I went up stairs with the
wounded girl, and saw her mother lying on the door under
the window, with her head towards the bedstead, and her
throat cut extensively. She was 'bawd. There was a
great pool of blood about her on the floor. She was dead.
I saw an open razor covered with blood in the doctor's
hand. I apprehend she caused her own death and that of
her daughter. I ant satisfied on the point. The landlady
was in the yard at the time, and my wife was with use in my
, room. There was nobody else in the house. I think she
cut the child's throat first, and then her own. I had not
seen the mother, Mrs. Newman, for three weeks, because
during that time she was confined to her bed and room with
rheumatic fever. She had been under medical treatment.
A gentleman from a dispensary attended her.
By a juror—Whilst the child was gone on an errand for
me, her mother inquired for her, and being told whither
she had gone, she said, in an unusually harsh tone, " Send
her up to me the moment she comes in."
Caroline Edeards, xamined—About twenty minutes
past tour on Friday I heard Mrs. Horn screaming, and
holding a child on the step of her own door, next to that
of deceased's. I crossed the street, and saw that the child
was bleeding. Mrs. Horn had put a towel around the
little girl's neck. I asked what was the matter, and they
said, " It has cut its throat ;" and Mrs. Staines, the land-
lady, said to me, " Look after the poor mother." I went
upstairs into the deceased wontaa's room, and I saw her
lying on the floor at the foot of the bed. She appeared
to me to be quite dead. I picked up an open razor, which
was very much covered with blood, and which lay on the
floor near deceased's feet. Three or foar doctors came,
and the child was brought up stain to her mother's room,
and there died in about ten minutes. Her throat was cut,
but she had no ether injuries upon her person.
Charles Slow, parish constable, said that in consequence
of certain information he proceeded to 23, Bridge-street, '
and there saw the deceased persons, and received from the
last witness the razor produced. He examined the premises
and saw no marks indicative of any one having escape 4
from them.

Mr W. R. Ashy, surgeon, of Napoleon Cottage, Neckin-
ger-road, examined—On Friday afternoon I was called to
the house in question, and my attention was tint directed
to the deceased child, who was sitting on the door sup of
the next house, and a woman supporting her. I examined
her and found she had received a transverse wound in the
throat, about five inches in length. The external jugular
on the right side was cut through. No part of the wound
was deeper than a quarter of an inch, but he was of opinion
that it was the c.suae of the child's death, and that it was
inflicted not by the child herself but by another person. I
I saw tho mother of the child, and found that she had re-
I caved an extensive, clear, incised wound in the throat, in
length about six inches, and very deep, about three
The jugular vein and carotid artery were dividtd, and so
was the windpipe. The wound was of a decidedly mortal
character. lie should judge that the wound was indicted
by herself.
Frances Morgan, the mother and grandmother of the de-
ceased woman and child, said she believed her daughter
died by her own hand, and that it was sho who had destroyed
her child. Daring her illness ahe seemed frequently do-

ranged in her mind, and she had never fully recovered.
Sometimes she did not know what she was saying.
John Newman, the husband, was then examined, and
said he left his wife a little alter two o'clock. She seemed
better then, and he had no suspicion that she would do any
rash act. During her illness she scarcely slept at all. She
was continually waking him nt night, though she did not
want anything. He believed her to have been partly
insane.

Ihe coroner summed up, and stated that no matter in
what state of mind a party may be, if he or she kill another,
it is by law an act of homicide or murder, and that court
had no power of discharging the party, no matter how in-
sane he may be, of the crime. Superior courts might do to.
The jury then returned the following verdict :—" That
the deceased, Harriett Newman, wilfully murdered by her
mother, Mary Anna Newman ; and that the said Mary
Anna Newman committed suicide, being at the time in an
unsound state of mind."

WEST YI
14 ENT ART Li

TILE REOISTEATIONg.

-REVISION OF TILE PAItLIA-
gh the revision of these lists was

completed a week ago, it was not until Friday that all the
returns could be examined by the secretary of the central
committee acting on behalf of the liberal party. The result
is highly satisfactory, as showing a clear gain to the liberal
party, upon the whole recision, of 1,13 i votes. The
principle upon which this calculation is made shows the
' nd not the nominal gain merely. For instance, if a
name is struck off the list for one township, but re-
on in another township, no account is taken of the
so struck off in estimating the gain or lees. This re-
applies also to new claims ; and, so again, if a liberal
has established a claim to be on the list ut property
particular township, and he w.,1 previously on the
or some other township, the new entry is not
as • gala. By Ws mode of calculation,
the efficient secretary of the West hiding registra•
tion committee is enabled to show the net gain
in individual votes, all duplicate entries being left out of
consideration. The total aggregate gain to the liberals
since the last election has been not much short of 2,600
votes. At the last election for the riding in 1848 the num-
bers were—for Mr. Denison 14,713, and for Sir C. Eardley
11,791, giving a majority of 2,948 to the former. It should,
however, be remembered that the circumstances of that
eiection were somewhat peculiar and very unusual. In
consequence of a split between the influential leading whip,
with }lad Fitxwilliam at the head, and the more active
leaders of the liberal party in the manufacturing districts,
some four or five thousands of the liberals voted for the

conservative candidate—a thing which they will nil cer-
tainly, under any circumstances likely to arise, in again.
Moreover, it is hoped that before another election takes
place the two sections will again be brought into united
and harmonious action, and if so they have a clear majority
of three or four thousand on the register. The following
is the result of the revision in all the polling districts in the
riding Liberal gain on new claims, 70.5; liberal gain on
old list, 430; total liberal gain, 1,13;.
SOUTH STAFFORDSIIIRE.—In the IVolverhampton
district the following is the result of the revision by Mr.
Selfc, the barrister appointed fur the purpose. Claims by
liberals 414, all sustained. Objections by liberals, 13; sus-
tained, 11. Conservative claims, 17; sustained, 14. Ob-
jection. by the con.ervatives, 175; sustained, 1. Total
gain to the liberals, 410.

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