The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-09-22 00:00:00

CHILD MURUER.

Ifetwi, alias Mane CJatoky, alias Canner, was
capitally is-eh/led for the murder of her infant lensale
bastard child. by suffocating and stifling her. The
indiainent also charged her with the murder, by
throWing it into a tuis of water.
Mr. GUIN cr 'toted the case on the pal of the
prosecution ; and it appeared that the unhappy Pri-
soner lodged at tie sign of the Three Jolly Weavers,
Brick-lane, in the parish of Bt. Luke ; about the
13th of July last she appeared much indisposed,
and meeting Mrs. Holden, a fellow lodger, 'on the
stairs, she sent her for something to chink. They
had a quantity of gin together, and Mrs. Holden
went away, and returned in about an hour and 'half,
when. trains some -yorarariced, and her own previohs
suspicions, she thought the Prisoner had delivered
herself of a child, and accordingly taxed her with' it,
and inquired what she had done with the infant
The Prisonei, at that time, positively denied the We
but when Mrs. Holden had procured the assistance
of two other female neig,h'sours, and had persuaded
the Prisoner to get up and have her bed made, they
discovered a female child, 'Velem, wrapped up in a
coarse cloth, and concealed under the pillows. She
then confessed the child to he her's, but said she
wished to conceal it. as the father was a married
man. A tub of water lay in one corner of the room,
which appe.ired discoloured, but there was no wet
or damp ttpr.o the tooth in which the child was
vrratipi ; up. The Prisoner acknowledged that she
had been a widow foe four years.
Mr. Evans, a surgeon, stated, that he bad ex-
amined the dead body, but could not find any marks
of-violence whatvvor open it..nor could lie take upon
himself to my that the infant bad beers born al Cr;
the longs were infl sted, arid appeared to have been in
play, but that lie considered 'as no criterion to form
a jsidgrdent op ts. as it often happened to be the
ease when children were bo, n dead.

Rar m Sorrow, in suirmin3 up the evidence to
'lie Jury, observed, that as there was no evidence that
the . hild WAS born alive, (from having read the very
ingenious and learned treatise by Dr. Hunter upon
thie softie., be was enald -el to say, that the in/La-
tin t of the lungs was a fallacious symptom to ju Ige
hr,) and even if there was evidence to that dim,
yet there was no proof whatever of the Prisoner's
being the hand that committed the fa& ; the Jury
were therefore hound to acquit her of the murder.
The next question they then had to consider was,
whether she had concealed the birth of a bastard
child P as in ease they found her guilty of this latter
crime, by a recent and very wholesome A. of Par-
liament, she Would be liable to a heavy punishment,
(two years isaprisonment.)
The Jury, after some consultation, acquitted her
of the murder, oat found her pally of eencesliss the
iota 01d1 &ward eh Id.

The PeiZIFT WAS much agitated during the whole
of the trill, .ird was'oalised to have a chair all the
time. appeared to be not less than basemen 40
an! 80 years Giese.
Foa‘9Elt`f. _ _ _

El.vnar She was Lid Arid • Capitally, for making
a- d puhli-ling. as tree: a ceitaid atitteor instrument,
purpoiting to be the will of. William Cooper,formerly
a seaman on board the merchant ship the Belisliiirs,
with intent to defraud John Cooper, his orrafof kis.
It appeared that the dcceuedwas drownintat Him
burgh; but for several rarspreviois tohis
_Oath had
colsabire4constantly with the witis; and
was frequently known to express his intention of Leay.
ing her every thin,' he was possessed of. The inskto.
/wont in questian devised the whole of his property
to the Pfisnaer. T; attesting witnesses appeared
to he Nlr, coombe, of &meson's Gaidess, and Ro-
b*
titer, his Clerk. l'lre signatures were denied
by those per-ms, which would have constituted
the forgery t but John Cooper, who claimed to be
nyft n! kin to the 'deceased, and who was a' native
of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, not being able to chew
that his relation and the deceased were one and the
same person, the allegation in the indl&ment was
thereby tvx sufficiently supported, ant the Prisoner
was coasequaitly aersiiied;

eLERKEIVWkLL SESSIONS, Sam CO.

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