The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-05 00:00:00

me, I Ail easy to Hewlett in her presence that she was jealous
of • woman she saw me speak to. I told the landlord
of the of Bedford that the prisoner was not my' wife,
and that she was a married woman. I did not do this to
insult the prisoner, but out of cenfidence to the landlord.
and I also told him what her husband's name was. I
had !been drinking un the day in question, but was not
drunk. When I gave the prisoner the gin, I did not recol-
lect whether I offered to let her stop in the public-hous•
and get as drunk as she liked.
Stephen Hewlett, the person referred to by the last wit-
ness, correleerated the evidence given by him with regard to
the prisoner lollowiog them about. As they ware going
along he said that Blake put his hand on the stump of a
tree and male 601118 remark, as he thought, in • joke, but be
could not hear distinctly what he said. After Blake had
slipped out of the house in toe way described the prisoner
discovered his absence, and rushed out after him. She
returned in about a quarter of an hour, and she then ob.
served to him that Bloke should repent it before the next
morning, and she would do somethivg for which she should
die at Newgate. The
ocherprisoer then went away, and about
9 o'clock at night he went lodging and knocked at the
door. The prisoner said she would not open the door, but
she would speak to him at the window, and she opened it
for that purpose. Witness then asked her what was the
matter, and teed her not to put herself in a pinion, for if she
did it would end seriously with her some elity. The prisoner
said she had somethingblack on her mind, and she would
pot a stop to it Wore morning. He tried to *oath her, and
then shook Lands with her and left.—Cross-examined: The
reason he went to the prisoner's house at 9 o'clock at night
was that be felt uncomfortable on account of the threats she
had made use of, end he was in hopes that Blake would be
at home.
Jane Jones deposed that on the night in question she saw
Blake in Old-stmt and Goswell-street, and he accompanied
her home end stayed with her until a quarter to ten the next
morning. See had known Blake at this time about a fort-
night, but was not aware that he was a married man.
Charles Adams deposed that he was landlord of the
Duke of Bedford, and knew the prisoner and the man Blake.
lie gave the same statement of what occurred in the public-
house as the other witnesses, and said that the prisoner ao-
eused him of knowing something of Blake's going away..
She then went out and returned in about ten minutes, acv
companied by, Blake's little girl, Amina, and had some gin.
After she had drunk it, she aid she would have her revenge
on the children if she could not have it on him, meaning
Blake, and before she went out she pointed to the clock,
and said, " Mark tare time, it is five and-twenty minutes to
eight ;" and she then turned round and went out of the
house. Before this, witness had asked her why she had the
little girl out so late at night, and she replied that it had
been to bed, but she had taken it up again.—Cress exa-
mined: lie had heard the prisoner repeatedly make ,
similar threats with regard to the children before this time,
and this was the reason why he did net take any steps to
remove the children from her. lie had understood from
Blake that the prisoner was not his wife, and he had in-
formed the prisoner what Blake told him.
William Grubb depot el that on the 31st December he was
living in the Kama house with the prisoner, and he returned
home with his with from the theatre about twelve at nieht.
At the earner of the court the erisuia r passed them, and he
observed, a- he le, et lay the widow of the prisoner's room,
that the two cheat-lei were alive sitting up in the bed, and
apparently playing. About four o'clock the next morning
an alarm was given, and he went down into the prisoner's
room and found both the children were de ,d.
Richard Wright proved that on the same night the pri-
soner told him that Bob or Rob: rt had promised to take her
to the play, I it he hail given her the slip, and gone with a
woman, and sho added that he was likely to repent it.
Jeremiah Donoghue, a neighbour of the prisoner, said
that he awoke between 1 and 2 o'clock in the minting of
the let of January, and he heard the little girl Amnia
twice call out murder.—Jane Wore, another neighbour,
said that on the tr,mming of the Is: Jae uarv, about a quarter
to four. she and h.r hueleaud ware awoke by a violent knock-
hog. Her husband opened the window,
_and asked what was
the matter ? and the prisoner answered that she wished to
speak to her (witness), and she had something particular to
say. She accordingly went down, and found the prisoner in
the court, and she came into witues-'s teem and threw her-
self on a chair, and said, "On, Mrs. Moore, I have done it!"
Witness asked her what she bad done ; and she replied that
Mr. Blake had come home to take her to the play, and on
going out met with a woman and tusk her by the arm, and
said she was her (prisoner's) mistress. Witness told her
this was en idle tale to trouble her about at that time in the
morning, and the prisoner got up to leave, and witness again
asked her what she hod done ; and she replied, " I have
murdered the two children, and I am now going to deliver
myself up." She afterwards saw the prisoner at the station-
house.
Mr. ',Lanett, the chief clerk et the Clerkenwell police
court, poised feat, when the prieiner was under examina-
tion, she made certain statements, which were taken in
writing. Wh ..n the deposition made by Blake was read
over to her, the prisoner remarked that what she had in her
handkerchief was not lead, but a small piece of tile. Upon
the final examination the prisoner said, " I merely wish to
state how I came to follow Blake en the last day of last
month. He came home about a quarter before five in the
afternoon. He said, " Make haste and get the tea and get
me some water to wash with. I an in a hurry ; I have got
a party to meet at the top of Old. suet:, and I am going to
take her to the play." I raid, " Ynu must go audjget bet to
make your tea, for I won't." He washed himself and got
his tea and went out, and I followed him to the Duke of Bed-
ford. He said, "It's no use your following me, for
I have got to be at the stump at ten minutes after five."
I told bun I would follow him. We went up Old-street, me,
and him and Hewlett. He came to the post and put his hand
over it, and said, " This stump knows me and I know it,
and I'll kiss it fur the sake of these I am going to meet
here," and he did kiss the post. Ile looked at Hewlett, and
he laughed, and said, " hat do you think of her, she's
jealous." Hewlett laughed and made some remark, and
told us to he comfortable. We went into the liquor vaults
and had some gin; then we came down Goswell-street, and
he turned round to Hewlett and said, " I can make her
jealous at any time ; I am in to meet a littleiwench." We
went down k ann-streetanr intog Golden-lane. We went into
the Duke of Bedford. I lost him there and never saw him
again until this day. He has been the cause of all our mis-
fortunes, him and that woman there.
John Moore, the :husband of a former witness4deposed
that, in consequence of what his wife told hint, he obtained
the assistance of two policemen, and accompanied them to
the prisoner's house, and they all entered the room through
the window. They found the little hay Icing at the head
of the bed, in his night clothes, quite dead. The little girl
was under the bed clothes, also quite dead.
Robert Fowler, a police-constable' mid that, about ten
minutes to five on the morning of the let of January, the pri-
soner came up to him and said, " Police, I give myself up."
Witness asked her what for, hut she refused to tell him till
she got to the station. As they were going towards the
station they met another constable, who inquired of the pri-
soner whether she had given herself up for something that
had happened in Cubitt's-court relating to two children, and
the prisoner answered, n Yes, I murdered them both." He
cautioned her not to say anything more, but, as they were
going along, she repeated her statement, and said, " I in-
tended to do this nine months ago, and now it is done—more
to my sorrow. I knew well what I was about."
Harriet Haywood, the female searcher of the Feather-
stone-street Police Station, deposed that when the prisoner
was brought in she begged of her not to touch her, for she
was a murderess.
George Maddam, a constable, who hail charge of the pri-
soner alter she was committed for trial, deposed that when
the examination was concluded, the prisoner told him she
had got through it better than she expected • all the wit-
nesses hed spoken truth, except Jerry Donoihue, and all
he said was false, for the girl litter cried murder at all ; and
she added that the poor little thing did not have the chance.
She then said that she put the children to bed, and watched
ores them' and thought they never would have gone to sleep,
and when they were asleep she blew the candle out, jumped
on the bed, seized the girl, and alter she had killed her, she
felt as though she could have killed a thousand children.
She then turned round, she said, and saw the boy, and
showed him no mercy, and she wanted none shown to her,
and she hoped she should not be transported for life.
Mr. Frederick Wright, surgeou, deposed that he was
called in on the morning of the tat January, to go to the
prisoner's room, and he was there shown the dead bodies of
two children. There were marks of violence upon the nose
and chin of both the children. He made a port-mortem
examination, and ascertained thet their deaths were occa-
sioned by suffocation, from the forcible closing of the mouth
and nose by the hand. His impression was that the act of
killing was committed while the children were asleep, and it
would not have been possible for either of them to cry out.
This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Clarkson then
addressed the jury for the prisoner. The jury, who did not
deliberate more than ten minutes, returned a verdict of
Guilty, but accompanied it with a strong recommendation to
mercy, on account of the unparalleled provocation she had
received.
Baron Alderson: The children gave her no provocation !
After a short interval, the prisoner was called up far
judgment, and Baron Alderson, both the judges having put
on their blackcaps, then proceeded to pass sentence upon
the prisoner. lie said this very painful cue had now been
brought to a conclusion, and the jury had returned the
only verdict it was possible for them to do upon the evi
dente. The recommendation to mercy which had accom-
panied their verdict should be forwarded to the proper
quarter, but he entreated her not to indulge any hope that it
would be of any effect. He could not but consider her offence
one of great aggravation. Prom a feeling of revenge
towards another person she had taken the lives of two unof-
fending children, and she committed the act while they were
in a sweet, innocent sleep. The man Blake had, so doubt,
behaved very ill to her; but whet ground was that for her
to wreak her revenge upon his children, who had given her
no offence ? ll e therefore entreated her to make the best use
of the short time that remained t a her in this world, and to
endeavour to obtain pardon where it was never refused, eves
at the eleventh hour, to those who sincerely repented. Sen.
tenet of death was then passed in the usual form.
The prisoner, when the sentence was declared, exclaimed,
"God forgive you, Blake ; you have brought me to this."
She was then asked whether she had anything to urge in stay
of execution ? She replied, in a faint voice, " Nothing I' ;end
was then removed from the bar.
HEW COURT.—Before Mr. Commissioner Bullock, Aldermen Sid-
my end Sir C.
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ROBBERY.—A Homan named 11,ssfirooel was indicted for
stealing four sovereigns and two M. Bank of England notes,
from the person of a merchant seaman, named William
Dawson. The case depended upon a question as to the
identity of the prisoner. The prosecutor deposed that she
met him in Ratcliff-highway. A few minutes before his
money was safe, but he found it gone directly the prisoner
had left him. As no one else had any opportunity to rob
him, he described her to the police. She was apprehended
a week afterwards, when a boy named Stems recognised her
as the woman who was with tke prosecutor at the time of the