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had any reason why the sentence of the law should
not be executed upon her on Monday mitt ? and
being particularly asked whether she was then
pregnant ? she answered she did not know, and was
not certain of it ; but, upon the evidence of the
keeper of the House of CorreElion at Rotherham,
and Mr. Samuel Wilson, chief Turnkey of York
Castle, who told his Lordship that she had been
kept separate, and that no person had been per-
mitted to visit Ira without their pres:nce; his Lot d-
ship told the Prisoner she had better tell the truth,
for that she must undergo an examination which
would lead to the truth or falsehood of what she

said. In answer, she again fell down upon her
knees, and got hold of the iron railing at the bar,
which she would not leave until she was compelled
by force.
Agreeably to her sentence, she was executed on
Monday last, and her body sent to the York County
Hospital for dissi:Et:on.
gobs Wilkins:nu, of I lolheck, in the borough of
Leeds, in the West Riding, clothier, was indkted for
the wilful.murder of I lannah Wilkinson, his wife.
Ann Sporton sail she lived at llolbeck, near
Leeds, about one hundred yards from the Prisoner's
house ; that she knew the deceased, who worked at
her (the Witness's) house. She believes the Pri-
soner and his wife had been married about eight or
nine year, ; on the 12th day of hbvember, the day
on which the Privin.l's wife died, she was in ap-

parent good health and sp;rits, and came to her
work about nine o'clock i❑ the morning ; she went
to her dinner about noon, and returned abcut one

o'clock.; when she :ia I :.oine ILIA, the Wit.:ess talk-
ed to the deceAsed, w.o gave ter no ans,ver ; this
.was netween our and vv.+. I Ask rd tier what WAS

the reason she did not speak ? she answered, " I am
very poorly:" during which time ‘.he went out twice ;
the last time site stop/le:I sn ling I went to her, and
found her :.it crying,. When she came into the
house, she said " w:nit has this rogu.! done to me lir
she was very in her stomach !loth before and
after she went tut. I got some oil and gave it her,
and after that she welt from my house about two
o'clock. I shot tly atter went to her house, and
found her in bed very ill; I tin thought
her so. ill that she could not long survive. 'I he
sleceasesl said, " I am worse ind worse." She

SAW tLe Prisoner, who came do•.cr stairs, and emp-
tied the utensil containing what d. ceased had thrown
oil het stomach; when he came down stairs, lie
came sharply ; he did not stop in the room
ab•sve a minute or two ; he looked at the deceased,

a:id said, " nhAt a face thou bast!" I said, " she

might well have such a face." Upon my asking
for a towel to wipe her face, he threw me one.
Mary Rhodes said she knew the Prisoner and the
deceased, from living next &or to them ; on the
day the deceased died, she was passing by their
window, and saw the Prisoner and his two children
at dinner ; it was then about a quarter east eleven
o'clock ; she saw the deceased that night between
six and seven o'clock; their boy carve for her. The
deceased was then lying upon the floor very ill, but
quiet; she did not speak for some time; I got her
into bed; this was about a quarter of an houi beton:
she died. Has lived as neighbour to them about
four years; they lived upon disagreeable terms, and
were a very unhappy couple.
Upon her cross-examination, she said she was not
there when the deceased died ; nor was the Prisoner
there when the Witness first went. Upon being
asked by Mr. R•ist, whether she had ever had
any words with iaer husband ? she answered, she
certainly had had words with him, and hoped spin
to have some.
Hannah Alderson said she lived neighbour to the
prisoner, and was in his house on the 1 2th of No-
vember, about six or seven o'clock in the evenin7,
and saw the deceased. She corroborated the to sti-
ninny of the preceding witness as to her being ill,
and being on the floor, and put to bed ; said she
asked the deceased where her pain lay ; and she
replied," all over me." I went to the bed-side to
her, and she expired soon after.
Mr. Teale, of Leeds, surgeon, was next examin-
ed. He said he was called upon to examine the de-
ceased on the Wednesday after her death. He said.
that upon opening the stomach, he found the inter-
nal part in that state that left no room to doubt that
she had died by poison. In several parts of the
stomach he saw appearances of inflammation. In
the internal coat of the stomach several parts were
corroded ; upon minutely examining them, he was
enabled to detect several small particles in small
white grains, but their colour not quite clear, on
account of the mucus ; he colleßed a sufficient
number to submit them to the test of examination ;
he submitted the whole, after being carefully clean-
ed, to hot iron nearly red ; the result was, that the
whole exhaled in vapour, the smell of which fully
convinced him that the substance had been white ar-
senic ; he had no doubt but it had been the cause
of the deceased's death. The appearance of the
deceased's stomach corresponded with white arsenic.
He could discover before the experiment, that the
deceased had died of corrosive poison. Upon ex-
amining the body, it appeared to be that of a healthy
person.
Upon being cross-examined by Mr. Rare!, he
said, he did not perceive any swelling of the body,
but that does not follow in all cases of poison.—
The experiment, he said, was made at Dr. Hey's
house, and in his presence. In making the ex?eri-
meat, he said, his attention was so intent upon se-
eming the smell, that he did not pay attention to the
hue of the vapours.
The Prisoner's depositions taken before the In-
quest were then read, and it appeared he had denied
the charge.
James Overton, of Leeds, deposed, that he was
not acquainted with the Prisoner, but had seen him
on the evening of the Saturday the tOth of Novem•
ber, previous to the deceased's death. at the shop of
Mr. Rayson, the druggist; when he came in he
asked for three pennyworth of white mercury; the
boy told him they had none. The Prisoner had two
or three small fish in his hand, a -d said he wanted
w put ..rsenic into their insides to lay them for rats.
Witness asked him if rats liked fish ? he said they
did. Mr. Rayson then came in, and he asked him
for sonic arsenic, who likewise told him they had
none. He saw the Prisoner on the l'uesday follow-
ing, when he was in custody, and he appeared to
him to be the saline person that wasited to buy the
arsenic.
Upon his cross-examination, he said, that when
he went to see whether he could idsaiify the person of

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