The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A

WOMAN.

00ILYFTTAL OF THE AOOUSED.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy coroner j
for the Olty and Southwark, rimmed an inquiry relative to
the death from alleged violates of William Hutton, aged
38 year..
It appeared from the sykietme taken on the former occa-
sion that the deepened wee a cooper, living at No. 6, Her.
hare'e-buildiap, Waterloo-road. About • month task
be mimed • last beloogieg to hie eon, a shoe-
maker, sad thinking that • crape flower maker, named
Sash Detett had taken It be mutt to her for

it. She seat beck two lasts. Next day
.ehe came to
the deosesed and asked for them again, saying they were ~k:
hen. She was given one sad told to wait fur the other till 2,",'
dmeased's son mine home. She thereupon struck deceased a
furiously with the Wt that bad been given to her. She to
Indicted snob infinite on his bead that in three weeks he to
died from their effect*, combined with the prostration of a to
fever for which, it would appear, he was sickening at the 8,
time be we umulted.tN
Sarah Debett, la her defeat*, deposed—l live at 14, Her- „.
bed'* build rap lam a married woman, and. my nu aa nls
Borah Orohud. My husband, a painter, left me 12 yearn AS.
age to ge to Ateraikt, promising to sandlot me when he got St
mosey, bat I never beard from him since. I became M. 111
titste and went to live with George Debett as his wife. On I:
the day of the occurrence with the deceased I went to him et.
for my Leta, and I spoke very civilly, but he said "Take me, ge,
the other is mine, cad l will Mock you out if you St
don't quit the house." He seised me round the waist and 56
tried to pooh me out. I raised my hand, and the last awl- al
distally struck him on the temple. St
at.
William Fruit Hughes, a boy, 11 yearn old, was recalled. st
This Memos, in deteHbing on the last occasion the assault
which be bed happened to see from the street, mentioned k.
incideatally that since his father banged himself in last lc.
August, be had slept only on the doorsteps of the houses in a.
the Waterloo-read, and that be had no home. He now stated •••
that the widow of the deceased had taken him to live in her
boom since he ggaave his evidence before the court. He posi- e
tively oostrsdisied the statement of the accused. itt
Gracie Jones said that she saw the °commute, and the 101.
seemed struck deceased with great violence, and without to
having been herself assaulted. He was covered with I,T,
blood, mad he fell into the arms oft young man sad said,
" Go for the palm' et.
David Brown corroborated the last two witnesses, and
peeved that the accused said when she strock the decoked, 60
" It would take a man mid not a our to put me out." 25
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against 4t.
Sarah Debett, otherwise Orchard, for feloniously killing gt,
and slaying William Hutton.* 23
The Coroner then belied his warrant for the committal IL
of the woman Debett to prison to await her trial at the IL
ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court, Elizabeth
Hutton, a girl 17 years of age, being bound over to prose- u
este in the case.