The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

mastic servant, but being in ill boalth she took up her abode
with the deceased, and they tArl urea 'mother for a short
tine before the date of the effete°. Early on the morning
of the 2nd she was detected by the policeman on the beat
leaving the house with some bundles, and owing to her sus-
picious conduct he took her into custody, and returned with
her to search the house. Whilst in the back.nied she asked
to leave for a moment. He watched her, and she made en
attempt to strangle herself. lie found the old woman lying
in • pool of blood on her side in the back kitchen, with
a rope sound her neck. From the medical testimony it
appeared that she Tad been dead for seven or eight
hours, and that several ribs on either side were broken. A
poker coerced with blood was lying by her aide. It seemed
that she had died front severe on the chest and
strangulation. Spots of blood, • y washed out, were onher
&U S. Twenty-one shillings and sixpence were bound on the
prisoner, and he should prove by the testimony of the daughter
of the deceased, that some of the articles in the bundle be-
longed to the unfortunate woman who had been murdered.
It appeared that the prisoner was anxious to go to Brighton
by the beginning of June, to get a situation, and had ex-
pressed her anxiety to obtain the necessary money to do so.
It appeared, further, that she had had angry words with the
deceased respecting not paying her (the prisoner's) share of
the tenement, and had threatened to do for her. She intended
to go to Brighton on the morning of the 2nd, and had made
arrangements over night. He should show that she was de-
ficient of money up to the time in question, and it would be
for them to say whether she was guilty or not of the horrible
crime charged against her. She had been remanded from
the lest session, in order to enable her friends to produce evi-
dence to show that she had been insane during periods at
her life, and that was the defence, he believed, that would
be set up to-day ; but the famines obtained by the crown
would state that they always believed her to be sane.
Police-constable Battersbee, 174 D, stated that he was an
duty at a quarter-past four in Adam-street, and saw the
prisoner put her head out of No. 40, and immediately
withdraw it on seeing him. He watched the house till a
quarter-past five, when she emerged from the house With
a bundle under either arm. She saw him watching lee
at the corner, and she threw the bundles in and elected
the door. About a quarter past five o'clock he tried tire
door, and found it an inch or two open; he pushed it, sal
found that some one behind resisted. He then put his
shoulder to the door, and thrust it open. lie found the pri-
soner behind the door with the bundles beside her, and asked
her if she owned them ? She said she did. lie replied, "If
you had been an honest woman you would have taken a cab
from the stand bard by, instead of watching until the
man was off the beat." She said sleolived with an old lady on
the first door. He said, " I must trouble ou to show me her.'t.
She replied, "You can go, and I will wayit here." He raid,
"Certainly not; you must go with me." She then went up
about four steps with him, when she suddenly turned
round and said, " I suppose it is of no use telling you
a lie ; I live with the old woman in the front
kitchen," He went down ; the prisoner was unwilling to
go. She said, "Itisof no use knocking, as abe is u deaf u
a stone." He knocked repeatedly, but received no answer.
He took her into the area and looked through the window
of the kitchen, but as he saw no furniture there, he said,
" This is the second falsehood you have told me." . She
made no reply. He then took her into the back yard, and
she offered him half-a-crown, saying, "Or a crown, or
twenty shillings," for him to get something to drink, and
pressed him to let her go, saying that she wanted to get awry
without paying her rent. He tried the back kitchen door,
when she exclaimed, "Do not say I did it; I have not seen
her since last night." He took her up stairs and
knocked at a door in thejmeake; a female voice
answered, and, on hearing the er s voice, she said she
knew her, that her name was n. Hunt, and that she lived
with an old lady in the back kitchen. He took her towards
the beck kitchen. There was no key in the door : she said
she had not got it. He said, " This is very suspicious," end
she again said, "Do not my I did it." Wiliht in the yard
he noticed that her right sleeve was covered for about six
inches with blood, and that it had been apparently recently
washed. lie got down into the area. Whilst doing so be
saw the prisoner raising herself up by means of the water
butt, in order to get over a wall six or seven feet high. He
pulled her beck, and said, " What are you doing—what is
this ?" She appeared in great excitement, and pointing to a
closet, said," I want to go there." Her tongue protruded from
her mouth, and she appeared in great agony. He allowed her
to go, but watched her, fearing that she might do herself some
injury. He opened the door in about two minutes, and beheld
the prisoner with her hands behind her back strangling her-
self. (The prisoner looked up end shook her head) He
went to the door, and called an officer named Jackson and
gave her into his custody. He got into the room by the
window, and found the head of thedeesesed under the grate,
and her legs towards the bed, and with a cord around her
neck. He drew the body out six inches, and left it in the
state in which it was seenity the doctor. There was a good deal
of blood wider the body, and it ran into a pool in the middle of
the room. Dr. Most came in shout 20 minutes oriole= hour.
He then told the prisoner he had found the body, but she
made no remark. Jackson took her and the bundle to the
station-house. Left the body in the custody of a person,
named Keeling. Charged the prisoner with the murder,
and she replied, " I did not do it; I have not seen her since
but night.' The bundles contained
rtricoats, shifts,
enthral " W. Margaret Wills,' deceased's daughter.
The prisoner was searched ; four letters were found (one of
which had been torn up) and a glove in her reticule ; also,
11. Is. 6d. in silver. Found in the deceased's pocket two
silver watches, 6d., and a watch key. There was a chest of
drawers in the room ; one of the drawers had a key in it and
was open.
Jackson, 29, stated that he was on duty in Adam-street,
on the morning of the 2nd of June. Saw the prisoner first
at half-past three, walking up Upper Seymouretreet very
fast; it as about 500 yards from the place. She was going
towards it. She was not carrying anything. About two
hours after he was passing the house, and was called in by
Battersbee, who gave the prisoner into his custody. Asked
her if she lived in the house, and bow long ? and she said
eight weeks. Asked her where she was going so early ? but
she made en reply. She appeared very much excited, and
trembled. Took her to the station.
Mrs. Snunah Nesbett, a lodger in the house, said no one
but her mother and the ' r resided en the ground-floor
of the house. Oa the °edgy night she beard the prisoner
and the deceased quarrelling. The prisoner repeatedly told
the deceased that" she would do for her, and that before
long." In consequence of the disturbance thus created eke
went fox Mr. Heyward, the owner of the house, who came
and remonstrated with them. The prisoner, on that occa-
sion, called the d. cased "an old hypocrite -" to which she
replied, " She was the first lodger she had had, and she
should not have another ;" adding, that the prisoner should
not stop there that night. —Crass-examined : Had lived in the
house since March, but only occasionally spoke to the prisoner.
The quarrel on the Monday arose about banging a petticoat
in the yard. Did not see the prisoner until about ten
minutes to nine on the Tuesday night Heard no quarrelling
on the Tuesday, the eight of the murder. The prisoner
paned her in the passage on her way out that night.—By a
Juryman: The deceased wetnet so deaf as not to hear the
prisoner's threats
Chaim Hayward, the landlord of the house, an oil and
colour man, was next called. The last witness came to him
on the Monday before the murder, and, in consequence of
what she stated, he went to the house. Asked Mrs. Stowell
what was the matter. She replied that the prisoner had
been abasing her because she asked for money. He went
into the kitchen' followed by the old lady. Asked the pri-
soner what she had been making a none about, and she
replied that the old lady had been making • noise about
hanging a petticoat in the yard. The deceased said the
prisoner had threatened to do for her; to which
the prisoner said, " Yon are a lying old wretch, I never
said any such thing." The last witness, who was on the
main, said she had heard her say so. The prisoner said she
would go to the house where broken victuals was given to
her, and tell the people who gave her them that she was a
covetous old woman, and was dissatisfied with what she had;
adding, that she should like to have her revenge out of her.
The (eceased said she wanted the money for the rent, ea she
had none ; to which the prisoner responded—" It is a lie ; I
know you have, for I have seen it in the corner of the
drawer." The prisoner said she had no money, and acknow-
ledged owing her nine weeks' rest. She said the was too to
to take a situation ; but she would write for some !wary to
pay her every farthing before she let. She was eseilei, and
cried. Told her she had better go to bed ; and that if she
did not discontinue kw noisy maul he shodl be ONE-
plied to turn her out.
Ann thsallworth said she lived at 40, Adanuared, sad
kept a shop there. On Monday night the prisoner same Leto
her parlour, and said the deseneed bad much abused bar sad
insulted her. Saw her co the Tusiday isiortimihr nine
o'clock, when she wix ham
before. She expla that what ibeißta=ritleble
the demised we. bps.— of her to Mn. yoftase,
from whoa she received luelosU Annals. Saw her also at
ten o'olork, end between bp and au, in the back kitchen.
She opened the doer en huh or two, end took a letter from
her hand, Irbil& witness bed taken in for ler. Wes not
able to me bete the soom. Saw bar again about nine that
eyneraming Iron the street. Inte hod poesel4ll
b• into fire street fibe pried in and out ,
ehminsi bow gambles el through ber
hg sessabotuted the of the
Id* gospel to Dr knockingdthe door on the ednaelay
mariatsC44l,llll4 with bar dial". She was hie other
edLseMd,
nese sellested, truly seesthn. Never detected any-
it UR way of I= There was nothing
knee drat on the y and Tuesday. She
vlasrais ratkim, wahines* to the esb•stand in the street
—Saw rims: et ID sabodee to nine on the Tuesday
usk. nude MY inquiries eg the trains
of Idapireen, the driverrsto
the first cab. Wit-
s7is ha that as was too late for the last train, es it
lefial6tkfike replied, that she thought es moth. She
what he would lake her to the arch-obis.,
yard, Whiteekapsi, fir? He said, Se. Ike
"You must bake a kmu hathan Out" He
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ek her. She add Nee batfrismils in YiurreArses.
yud, sled Se 'she would slap Veit weak' be pares
Ile railway Mn Adassirset. faked where be
Zattake bra ? Enid • down the street,
pt. dee mould be re* in tea alaas. See west
aveayi they sew to assn of her. lase bed • Mooed
rw osvitivailto sehawir bumst, and a auntie. The helmet
DruryMeissen add he wee the driver of the Mt soh on
thirelori t Mme keen on the Ltd Jose. Repubseted
weak& imam op to lies beers aloe cache. She sited
whim the lad them *Mat to llif.tem that light, ar the diet
trek lbeireia pod* adored heir to the werteemea. Did
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slid he win employed by Mr. Dena* on
Marled a earghire of the dooms& bias-
bur bealy. She Mad with him or lens pprre-►
. and typemped ezelleat health, Ear
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