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was a wretched looking Thing, considerably inferior in quality to I
good cool bag, and not much, if at all, larger than one. Vet, OD
this unserabic hed the two prisoners and the deceased all slept. It
was greatly stained with blood, the marks of which had been vain-
ly attempted to be removed, by rubbing flour over it. The into.
not appeared to be funned of shavings of wood.
Mr. Robert Blair.—l am a surgeon, residing in Bloomsbury,
and attend Mr. Thomas's family. Mr. Thomas spoke to vie to
June or July last about a woman, the wife or sister of one of his
workmen, who had met with an ucciden•, but I never attended her.
Mr. Andrew Tweedela/e.—l am assistant surgeon of St. Giles's
parish work•bouae. On Sunday. 3d July, 1 examined the body
a woman who had received a severa injury• on her head. There
was a wound on the back p trt of the head, about too inches tong.
It appeared a recent wound. Saasequesitly, on the same day, I
esamhted the wound again more particulsily ; there was an eaten.
sive fracture of the skull, commencing at the left ear, and extend.
eg right across the head, it terminated at the base of the skull.
'!`here was a small collateral fracture in addition to the wound.
The wound appeared rrcent anti green ; I: WWI also inrised and
titan, es if cut with althorn instrument. I think it not unlikely
the axe now produced might have indicted the wound, which was
not the sort of wound that would be riecasioled by a fall down three
ix four stairs. An incised wound inflicted rith that axe, if given
with sufficient force, would have fractured the skull. I observed
on artery of the membrane of the brain which was cut by the bone
that was driven into the brain. There had been an einsion of
about four ounces of blood between the skull and the dura mater.
don't believe the wound 1 saw could have been inflicted more
than • - before the death of the deceased. I form this opl.
4' the edges of the wound. I dissected
was no organic disease, arid death was
n 1 on the heed. There was a slight
. nothing sufficient to have occasion.
flowed immediately from th- incised

could ban been (-awed

came in contact

the staircase, or'
particularly if the
appearance would not be
- if broken ; u slate tile

wound could have
deceased's death, judging
•t receiving such an injury
'ward the examination of
mtk who hail received
not have sat up and
have done.
ed from the last wit-
. capable of sustaining
received by the deceased.
To blows or falls, as the
wound, and must have
introducing his linger Into
nd with it, as it corn-
'the head. He also
falls. He agreed
wound, but thought
RS the Sunday. lie
received. There was
cull higher up than the
...e occasicned death, but
inflammation tif the brain,

that the tiles in the

Giles's parish, and
1 Lyons was there,
Mary Connor, and
r report accordingly.
defence—
, told respecting his
previous to, heedeath,
she sustained the in-
-I'soletnnly protesting

a cool and col-
deal in the course of.
n which the domestic
Wow prisoner was ex-
'her manner became
with a chair, at the
- she appeared coed:
•and much exhausted
Court, which weal
_ nis self-possession,
troughout, and two or
s placed in front of
•pritoner, to per-
ot that kind being
wbo are natives of
extremely humble
I to speak to the
to be of Ms own.

Mm a character for
Ellen Lyons,
idence, wad sharps'

their verdict at six
hours. After an ab.

into Cowl, when
Patrick Welch, and

most pagietie and
the enormity of his
loy on this slue the
mince of the 141. is

. for his execution.
_
e iring the progress of
his Ws' *IOW now to hive demi:Tied him. He hung e“.n his
beskind was removed fro .n tltc bas—previous to which he faintly
F.:atomd his tnaocence.

cp.
NEW cnsr.
frrtgamliiltw was indicted for stealing, on the 2Cth August,
ti handkirelnef, the'property of... Mr. Banks.
• Robert Bshks, en the day in question, was walking along Hid.'
'hero. and findiog a sudden jerk in his pocket, turned round, and
saw the prisoner near him. The handkerchief was not on him, but
it ',solving at a short distance.
Jesse Phillips saw"the prisoner take the handkerchief from Mr.
flankei.pioßket, and afterwards throw it down.
The priadtier denied the charge, and said that he had witnesses,
bit that they 'were•not here, as he did not expect to be tried
to-day.
The Jury immediately found him nifty.
Negated* Snag& was indicted fur stealing a watch on the 24:h of
jlf;oelyi Burnham stu examined.—On Sunday n4ht, the 24th of
July, untie wasio the Kent-road, lie was called to, and asked
if lobed lost any thing ; on examination he found that be had
leis Ma watch. lie saw it 'again at the watebbouse ; he 'was very
tipsy that night.
Coese.ciou.ined....-fle did not ay Mit the woman who rolibed
him oast muz.h.taller person that the prisoner, nor did he request
the wateliuse keeper to let bet go.
Re-examined'hy the townott.Settonawr.--Witness did rot
wish to prosecute her, because he woe ashamed of his conduct, not
heiag is the 'batik Qf •gening tipsy. Had not, to his knowledge,
'been walking with any other votenc.
Thonias Almond, inspector of the watch—On the night in
question witness ear the prosecutor up a coon in Wentworth'-street,
in the get of asijesting his dress t ant! ha also saw thertisoner run
meal from him;, witness followed her, and mme up with her in
about a hundred yards ; she was stooping down 4ainst a wall, and
he pulled tier away ; the watch was ly mg at Ler feet.
This was the case ter the newer:non.
, The prisoner, a nest, interesting lo king young sauna, streargly
protested her innocence.
The Jury found a verdict rtf Not cai.'4.
W:..iieplussee card G. Sierhen.n;ii were Indicted for stealing
ss ,eral uncles of clothing, de. oc the 36th of, July, •the progeny
Charles DutAtas, Esq.
Ctiwelos•Duadas Esq. being sworn, deposed. that he lies a house
asked the Al snot.' HOU... Chelsea; this boosts, when the robbery
vas coo.olittod, was in ti•:, cue of Charlotte eitephensur., a savant.
Ivaco had been :with him uir. rats.
Ily Mr. C. Put lades-11 is at your instance that this young
wa-i.sa prosecutes her imthere ?—Ves.
Charlotte Steohertion.-Het the care of the house of Mr. Du-
n Her brothns oecesinon!ly slept at the house. Does not know
where they slept on the rdi. Arilliam showed her some dupli-
cates ; she asked him where hr had got the articles parped, and
hadmissed several things in housed:: charged him with
having taken them, and he acknowledged be had, and gave her up
rise duplicates.
Several pawnbrokers *ere examined, who deposed to the several
artideastelen as having been IJ:edged with them by one cr other of
tbe prisoisers.
The Co ss ote-ien c Laser premised his summing up by ob..
Prolog. that there va. e..thing tit the evidence to atge the mi.
sonerajointly, and' therefor: uptin the indictment only one of the
prisoners could be canvioted ; sad sold, as the case was clearest'
aganst William Stephenson, If the Jury thought the theft brought'
dtstine4ly home to him., they would find him guilty.
Tl)e Jury found William Stepheown Gui!!y.
Nardi:qua was indicted for stealing on the 21 of Sept.
two intii.vy gorges. and other property.
David Motes se clerk to John George Nutting, button-rnak.er.'
King.street, Coreouganien ; saw the prisoner in the shop. Who
came to ask if they wasted an errand-boy; witness told him they
hid j'tst got one. After the prisoner sweat out witness missed a
parcel, cotainiug two military gotgets, &c. of the value of V/. Vs.
Cress-examined by air. C. Fitittrs—Did not ace the prisoner.
take she parcel, but missed it as soon as it we; gone.
Solomon Collins—Lists in Chi/odes-street. Covent-garlic% The
',moiler tome to his house on the ith of September, and of 'red
for see two military g,ngets, ore pair of engine.tureed /Cake,
d.c. ; witness detained the prisoner, who could net give any antis.
tactoty account of how lie got the &dela in question, and gave him
in custody to the officer.
The Jury, after consulting some time, found the ptisor.cr Net
Gritty.
. .

TZfflos Adcock vas indicted for stealing on the 13 ill 4/C .Itigust
me sovereigns, the property of Thomas Jordan.
Thomas Jortla• is • carpenter ; oa the 19th of August he way

than 44 hours before the death of the deceased. 1
nion from the ap ee of the edges of the wound
the head and. y : there was no organic disease, =
produced by the mjtery Inflicted on the head. There
e.,Frongeolebt of the bowels, but nothing sufficient to I
ad deeds. Blood must have flowed immediately fro
wound.
Crass.kamined.—l don't think the injury could bat
tiy a fall down three steps.
Would not that depend upon what the head car
with IL-That might moduli, a difference.
By the Colrbr.—A fall the whole length of the
from I great height, might occasion the injury, part
Trion tell upon any thing sharp. The appearance •
produced by a ran on an ordinary tile, even If broker
might occasion it.
Re-examined.--I don't think it possible the wow
been indicted on the Sunday before the deceased's d
from the of it. A pogo after receiving 5
eight rep,ead eonvershd. I heard the e
the weil ate eatisfled a petient4 who
iriSl
the hijgdes deceased minted could not ha
allied as tbaisellisseaesedbes Mary Welch to have
Mr. James Bedilieg• *ether surgeon, differed frorr
nese ii-to what wallah a patient might be capable
irter the inatedoW oleo& a wound as that received by
Ile alto, thought there must have been two blows oi
fixture did not correspond with the incised wound, a
been octeasioned at another time. On introducing 1
the cot, hafentel the fracture did not correspond with
meneed two inches beyond it, higher up in 'the he
gave it as his elitnion that there were two blows or falls
w:th the last entness as to the recent date of the wank
th 2 fracture might have occurred so far back as the
(r! a oat imagine the incised wound was then received.
9.o;re lirralranal of a blow or bruise on the skull high'
le .'sed wound., The fracture would hare occssicnc
the incised MOOD* able, without an inflammation i
Houk itot.
Pia Witness Bodge Ira Petalled, and stated, that t
tf,:use watt not slates, 'but paving tiles.
El'esbeth ilutler-1 am a searcher of St. Oiles'e
Tilled the healy of the deceased. The prisoner Lyor
std stared that the name of die deceased nos Mary
C.it she had died of a brain firer. I madinir tepee
. This was the ease for the prosecution.
, The.pest4tehating been edict/on for their defenc
W eVa r d the story he bad previously told r
se.fe.having ellen down' stuns on the Sunday previous
Ire'. t, azcotding tal:the prisoner's tutentent she sun
!ii.s that oceasiorM bee death ha'the Friday' followini
' The pdsonet Lyons contented herself withiolcmi
her ihnecance.
J3c*th
.prisofters uttered, few words In a 0
feted trtarthek.• The female' sMiled a good deal in
;he fly t% pottieularly at those parts of it, in which
orosoinj of herself, the deceped, and'het fallow-pri
ItAi"eci., liotretrer, vi the case rioeecded, 'het ma
e,c&au.bilued, and she was accommodated with a
humenk suggeaden of Mr. Baron firahatn, as she ap
dtteblytictsanced In a state of pregnancy, and TIM
4 the fair], of sanding and the heat 9f the Coon
oprowy.. The mile prisoner did not 'lose his se
verbiage we should call it indifference, 'throughout,
&ire times handed a glass of water, which was plan
t'.-e dock', foi the use of shim and his fellow-prise
sale standing below in the crowd, each motion of the
a. ~,,z;ipariiedr telth a smile. both prisoners (who at
I:es-wit ars lath& well-looking; theft dress was extra
• roethedefirret, three witnesses were called to 1
r'srseitt ft the male prhoner : they appeared to IN
c:as., in, life,4and gave him a very excellent one.
Welch% employer, Mr. Thomas, also gave him a
ta ;quaky rind good conduct.
No evidence was adduced to the character of Ellen
Mr. Baron Gnartax summed up the evidence,
the Jury at great length.
Tile Jury retired from the box, to consider their
o'gock, the trial having lasted exactly eight hours.-
hence of about twenty minutes. the Jury returned into
they
.yronounced a verdict of Guilty against Patrick
41e4upted _Ellen Lyons.
Proclimation of silence having bean made,
'the ElecbuDErt addreseed the prisoner in l mere'
jmpfesslve manner, and having commehted on the en
r. ass; and told hbn to entertain no hopes of mer'y or
rase, concluded by,prohouncing the awful sentence
tiie usual minder, and appointing Monday next for hi
The firameiraCahibited by thz prisoner dutin, tl