The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-19 00:00:00

MRS. BACON'S SINGIYLAR CONFEI3ION.

1 ,v ee-ei, ad in the rep -,rt of the trial of Bann and his
v the close of the p o •ee,lingv, Lord Campbell,
,rter the jury had returned their vaedicr, in an emphatic
msener expressed his entire concurrence in that portion of
it which exonerated the male prisoner from any share in
the transaction, and he at the same time said it would no
doubt be satisfactory to the jury to hear that the woman had
admitted assuredly that she, and she alone, had committed
the dreadful crime, and that her husband had n thing
whatever to do with it. It has already been stated that
Bacon has all along asserted that this was the case, and he
had taken every opportunity to urge upon his wife to retract
the statement she had made at the police court, in which
she asserted that ber husband was the murderer, and
w ich was no doubt the foundation of the proceedings
which were ultimately taken against him. She, however,
maintained a 'dogged silence until the end of the first
dais's trial, when, shortly after she had been taken
beek to her cell, she expressed a desire to make a
statement, and upon some of the authorities of the gaol
ring to her, she at once said that' the statement iu ques-
tion was false, and that she had herself destroyed her
children. She stated also that it was quite true that Bacon
had left her in bed when he proceeded on his journey to
Reigate, and that very soon aftere-ards the i 'ea of des-
troying her children came into her mind. She first took
the little boy out of his bed and cut his threat, /led then
carr ed him down stairs and placed him in the chair in the
position in which he was found, with the toys before
him. She says that the child died almost instantaneously,
and uttere3 a very slight cry when she first cut him with
the knife. She states that she then determine to kill the
baby, but she felt great reluctance to destroy the youngest
child, and she did not do so until some time after the
little boy was dead ; but at length she could no longer
resist the desire for destruction, and she cut the
second child's throat in the same manner she had done the
first, but this child she left in the room where the deed was
committed. She says that she has very I.ttle recillection
of what occurred after yards ; but she ramembe-ed hearing
her relation, Mrs. Munro, knock at the door in the after-
noon, but was afraid to let her in ' • and she remainei in
the house with her dead children all the Monday and the
succeedieg night, and on the following morning went out
with the intention of paying her rent; and upon meeting
Mrs. Munro and her mother, the thought suddenly came
into her mind that she would tell them that a strange man
had got in at the window, and murdered the children, and
she expected that this would avert suspicion from herself.
She said that, finding it did not have this effect, and that
she was taken into custody,she then became alarmed,and her
mind began wandering, and after the women had been talk-
ing to her,and had told her that if she did not clear herself she
would in all probability lose her life, she resolved to
accuse her husband, and accordingly made the statement
which led to his bele g taken into custody, and to his
eventually being committed to take his trial along with
her for the murder. At this time the learned judges bad
left the court, but on their arrival on the following morn-
ing a communication was immediately made to t` .e Lord
Chief Justice of what had taken place ; but as there was
no means of legally bringing the matter before the jury
(1 statement of this description, made by one prisoner in
reference to another, not being legally adrui,sihle), the
only course that remained open to the learned judge was
to point out the entire absence of anything like positive
evidence against the male prisoner, and he summed up
the case very much in his favour, and the resnlr, was
that anticipated by everyone, namely, the acquittal of the
male prisoner. On Friday afternoon, before Bacon was
removed from Newgete, he expressed a desire to have an
interview with his wife, and the request being accede i to.
the interview took place in the presence of Mr. Weather.

head, the governor of the gaol, and the ordinary. They
were both very much affected, and Bacon, at the close, and
several times during the interview, earnestly entreated his
wife to speak the truth, and clear him from the
suspicion of being concerned in committing such a
dreadful crime, and she replied that she had done so.
In the course of the afternoon the male prisoner was
removed by Mr. Read, the chief officer of Stamford, under
a warrant charging him wi.h the murder of his mother.
Although this step has been taken, the probability is that
Bacon will be brought back to b 3 tried at the Central
Criminal Court. The coroner's inquisition has already
been removed, under Palmer's Act, to the Court of Queen's
Bench, ani when the grand jury, at the ensuing as-izes,
have returned a trus bill, that will also be rem,ved, and
the prisoner will in all probability be tried at the August
session of the Central Criminal Court. Mrs. Bacon has
not yet been removed trom Newgate, but she will
eventually be conveyed to the criminal ward of Bethlehem
Asylum.

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LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES.

CAPTAIN BOURNS, Vice-President of North Dispensary.
Mr. CHARLES BOOTH, Vice-Fresident of South Dispensary.
Mr. FRANCIS MILL, Tieasurer. 1 Mr. J. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
OFFICE-21, SOUTH CASTLE STREET.
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NORTH,

SOUTH. I TOTAL.

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