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ahoet forty yards, going quitth, in the sane diteetton. The
Mua mot a darkish ant and brews women. 3 Miley. the pel-
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J. S. Barrett, coostabla of Suelepoet, on the eight of the 12th of
AorPods Ow the risooer goo* twenty minutes past eleven, nest
e,s own house. asked him where he had been that night at eight
u'ilock. lie said in the petty cun to meet a sweerbeert. I asked
him it he met ha, and he mid yes, at the gate leading across
lake's held. Allow nine, wino they parted, site went home towards
/lolly-wood. When he got three parts of the way. down he heard
.a toiae, and listened and heard some one moan. ile got over the
rule, and eaw,something on the ground light-coloured, and found
it to be a shawl and black lemma ; saw a woman lying in the
field below ; went and put his hand on her fate, and then went to
iihreep.hta two comrades ; the woman's face was quite wet. In-
formed FlL7patrick and Buckley that a woman was either drunk or
wdistress In the wood, and asit them to go with him. They
went to the body, returned and got a number of persons who car.
tied her away, while he held the botch. He said he loolod bi
the candle, and saw there was blood on his hand. The rainless of
the house and her daughter
d were in the room he went through to
le s comrades, but he not tell. therm I asked him why he did
not gtve the alarm at the house next to the place ; he said hi
thought ti better LO tell his fellow lodgers hest. Qn the following
day. about ten, my men, Booth and Shaw, brought the-prisoner to
the p by thy owlet. 1 saw some blood spotted about the
breast 01 his iiltirt--amall spots or squirts of blood, not ae if it lied
been tubbed or wiped there. I asked how be came to have those
ears et blood on his shirt. He said be did not know, I took it
and saw that the upper part only was marked with blvd. I
also ex-mated his trousers, and saw marks of blood inside, and
Cur on the outside on the thigh. He said he knew noshing about
H. I 44e4 him if he bad assisted to carry the-deceased ; he said
he had eot ; or whether he touched her 2...eltailt putting his hand
tate, he said he had nut. I asked him who the sweetheart
was ?be replied Eliza bleyrick. The hedges on the foot-road al-
loded to are about a yard high near the gate leading front the Add
to the rest'.
Crues-i.saminerl-1 did suspect the prisoner, and asked him
questions, teem eleven LO one. He then went away, and might have
gone limo the country if he pleased. It ryas a wet night, raining
Ironten till half-past four in the morning. (The shirt and
centaurs were then handed to the Jury, and while under examina-
tion the eyes of the prisoner were used on them with the most
imams* stare. and his fingers was pressed to his mouth, as if con-
tr..lling his agitation.)
The shin exhibited a few spots of blood as well as the trousers,
but the fame appeared to have been rubbed a little. Witness also
produced the apron which he received from William Booth on the
lath, end a piece of stone received from the are person on the
day of the inquest. There were several small hairs of a light
b:own colour on this stone, which have been rubbed off by the
paper its nnicii it woe kept.
John Houghton-31y house from where the deceased lay is
ritual Pt rods, on the high road. The creasing of the 12th of
August I had occasion to go into the yard : I heard a cry of dis-
tress about nine o'clock ; and saw a light going across to where the
mutes came from. I got over the knee into the field, went up to
the hotly, and saw 'event persons standing abnut it. The prisoner
held the lantern. We carried her to the dispensary. I went in
ir:ong with the prisoner. Thq prisoner said'he was the tint man
tat tou:nl her.
CI

_ assisted in carrying the woman and rot a few
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spots isf *edam say coat; she bled as we corned her. Whcn the
pristine( sok that he was the first that lliuntl die woman, he gave
bus name and satires..

114.4:ed Swindlehatn—l saw the prisoner with a lantern at half-
patt nine. I asked prisoner what was do. He replied, there
was a Pont woman found murdered in the wood; he said some girls
the road told him it wax Peggy Donnell, or Plummer. He then
mud he was coming down the road, and heani groans. Ile jumped
user the hedge, saw a woman rolling about, and thought she was
struck; ;hat be got down to her; her pettieoats were over her
head. and he pulled them down, on which she shrieked. He
thovzht there was slush upon her head. Ile kit upon her face,
wad thought her inside was coming out. 1 was also at the
dispensary. The prisoner lent me an apron to cover my head, as 1
Lad no bat. The apron was rolled round him before he gave it to
tee. I observed next miming a little blood upon it, and also a
lode blood upon toy own. He took the apron with him; this is
the smut. As f walked with the deceased, blued fell upon my own
a•;..r., and the prisoner's apron aid !Mae acre laid in the same,
I..are during the night, folded together.
Francis Cogard went on the 14th August where the deceased
• found the stone near the place within five yards of the spot.
A ,Iy.MC was a small Hag, about two pounds weight, and bore
• ,;f:t marks Of blood near tote of the edges.
tilltam Booth, an assistant to the police of Stockport, told the
9:*.r.:••rr Mr. Barrett slanted hint, about one o'clock in the morning
4.: the I:th of Angu-t. He refused, saying it was very late, and
ite was afraid no cou:e f.ack alone. Two men said they would bear
him company beet. D: then came with us. We stopped on the
road for a moment, when the prisoner took an opportunity of run.
sing away. He did not go to his lodgings that night, but we saw
bier in his workshop next day.
Croas-examined.—We did not tell him he was our prisoner, and
that was the second thee he was called out at bed. Prisoner left
us at one, and we found him at ten next day at work. He had
pkney of time to change his clothes.
I;4;abeth bleyrick--linew prisoner before 12th August, was
• him on that night, met him a few minutesymst eight, and re.
ELA.ned with him till ten minutes past nine. I left him where I
met him, at the topmost gate of Edgely-field, not above a yard
tram the path to Holly-wood road. I went from the wood towards
home, and the prisoner the contrary way, down the wood to the
bridge. We stood at the gate five ur seven minutes between the
:coineth and the high road. in going borne the prisoner would
'Llve to path the spot where the body was found. I beard the clock
strike nine about ten minutes before we parted.
.1 plan of the ground was now produced.
I.'„d ward Lacy, serfron—Attentled the deceased at the dismi-
ss...". The injury wo's chiefly on the left side of the head and face.
T! ere were four deco rum a large puncture, and many bruises.
stone lying on the table might have produced those wounds.
woman lived till thelath. I have no doubt but her death was
u. A. by the 'Solent., done to her head and face.
Clross-enaminod-1 also examined her person. Ido not know
wb:ther the was actually violated, but there was an injury which
vast have been effected by force. If a man came up int.,
medjately ea tke wounds were made on her head the blood might
hare spirted upon him if he touched her face, but it roust have
been soon 'Per. . _ I

Patrick Harlon.--The doctor asked at the diepeneary who four.d
ti woman diet, and the prisoner wrote 'fetence Connolly will
htt found at 3lr. Rlarksland'a, a block-maker ; he found her first."

Tbs yrisoner Itti this paper!tas the table.
Ba.-rett reca:led.—The prisoner, berme the Coroner, was naked
~ at trousers he had on on the Monday, and he said blue,
is :•1 took them down to show marks of blood. He said he got the
marks on the trousers now produced on the Friday night, In the
4112! way.

he prianrcr, being tailed on foe his defence, spoke in a distinct
snel v.:mpuseti manner, as follows:—The man who said he saw me
:a the green field that night must have spoken untrue, for I was
oat there that day or night. Bly Len!, on Friday night, at ten
minute. past nine, the young woman and I came up to the gate.
We were there two cr three minutes. when a man came up the
sah-rosd leading from Edgely. I was leaning on the outside of
vie gate, and she w:.. ou the inside, and I bid her stand by,'
su.d ket the man come nut. Elbe did so, and stooped her heed when
his roan passetL I porceived her smile. I asked if she knew
him ? she said she bzlievcr.l she slid, but he did not know ber. In
savor three minute...after I left her and proceeded home. Between
mediate and the top of the road I met a woman and her daughter,
wont I knew, hut I did nbt speak to' her; and on my entrance to
tie sad O* dot a man and woman stand. As I came up to
ehan the woman walked before, as I rather surprised them, and
toe woman turned quite short, and passed by. and the man fol-
k)/ ed her. They went the ralgely read, which I came, sad I went
-oil, we the wood. 1 walked very smart until I came to Mr. Gee's
I.,,ere en the right of the road, when I heard a bustling noise,
ch made me quicken my pace. I proceeded a few yartht, when
I.l.eard !noting. 1 then stopped, pat sty hands on the rail, and
Lae to see if I could see any oar coming.l heard. I thought, some.
body whistling in 31 raleulan's garden,and it encouraged me a little.
1 pia one kg over the rail, and the noise ceased. I stopped so 8 or 10
weconde, and it re:on:Alen:ed. I walked on very slowly about four
a Lve yards past where the woman lay, when I saw something
. white on the ground. I then west and put toy hand down, and
reached r bonnet. I wallrod to the edge of the hedge, and looked
owe:, and seeing a woman rolling about on thin ground, I thought
si was in a rate of inebrottian. I called to her twice, and finding
slue made no answer kernel down six or seven feet into the &Ad,
within two on three yards of the deceased. She kept moaning all
We time, end rubbing a hit the upper part of the body, in a state
uf greet agony. Her :lobes were about her head. I pulled them
dowa, and sti: n.e!e en effixt to sit up, but she fell down again at
tot! length. Ferret irg in her state that her head was In the mud,
1 put niy hand to her heed, and felt ayiece of the cheek loose. 1
sisoeght it was her tongue; and I immediately ran as fast as 1
(amid towards rr y own home, not wishing to claim the neighbo,,r.
hood. Knowing it was murder, I didnot like to alarm the migh-
hoorimoti. I never stopped until I got into my own house.
7.1 e. Sergeant t cosi, the prisones Counsel, here stopped the

prisamen, and Callod
John Warring—l was in company on the night with Edward
t.wen. Going trom the mad up the bridge, I beard, on the left
aide of the wood, soon-thing similar to groaning. It was where the
woman vies afterwards found. Owen and I stopped to listen, and
mid it was but two cats. 1 took up a stone and threw at somethiog
white, but it did not our. We went away without ascertaining
*tau it we,. When we got to the top of the wood, we heard the
Savory clock at I;dgely strike nine I'M quite sure we heard the
noise before the clock struck aloe. While we were going on. one
au and two women overtook and passed us. One was an oldish
woman, the mbar a young woman with a child. The younger said,
I ihs^k we hero got far enough with you now. and they parted.
..11.e Wit woman went up the wood. Two myn passed about the
same tir.ie. I have an acquaintance with the prisoner. Mr.
Orean's clerk is the only public clock in Edgety. I got home tea
witattles pest nine. It vas not ten.
Joseph Omion—l have an acquaintance with the prisoner.,
Winn this matter A...pinned, I was in Mr. Ore's field where the
7 akin is. I know the Etigely clock. 1 heard it strike nine about
two ni;antes before I left asy own door. I went into the field. I
west& through AM: gate dist leads to Ilolly.waod. I saw at the
ipso 6. man and woman, the man inside, the 'Om* outside. The 7
rialMi,beil themes l.passes: through ; the woman had a grey cloak'
on • as I found thou. on I left thew.
efou.exnvainetL-1 t is four se tire hundred yards flan my helm
tise mat yam. I was nine or ten minutes going from my house to
the eve.
Susan 31'Ottire.s.Was passing from Dtinkely to EdeelY litttmak

the wood that night between nine and ten. I met the prisons/ at
the top of the wood facing Mr. Gees gate.
Je‘ePh Coffinl',loll.—lt wanted a quarter of nine es I was in the
wood, nese lie. Omen's gate, on the FrWay night? 14 ow. Marge-
vet Tremor twenty or thirty yards from the got.going,to the Holly-
wood. I saw a man follow her ; he overtook her ; pored on and
did not attempt to speak to ha. That man was Edvtard Xlickenson.
The clock struck nine after I saw the women-
Edward Dickenson.—About half-past eight was moiling the
field towards the gate in Mr. Green's held. The woman was before
' me till I got within twenty yards of the gate; I overtook her ; she
was an oldish-looking woman ; wore a black bonnet, light shawl,
and a bed gown. low her go through the gate of Mr. Green's
field ; she turned to Hollywood and Ito Edgely. I know the pri-
; sorer by sight
I Cress-essmined.—l was dressed in a light jacket arid brown cord
trousers. I saw 31r. Baton on Monday; he told me that he heard 1
lonew something of this matter ; I said I did not, and he then told
me there was no use in coming.
James IVarburton, an overlooker at Mr. parkland's, where the
prisoner was employed, give hint an excellent character for the last
Itweisie months. __ .

'llia closed the defence.
Mr. Barrett WI/ recalled by the ATIOINEY-GENERAL, for
the purpne of contradicting the evidence of Carrington and Dick-
enson, as to the ootnniunication said by them to have been made
to him.

by MI. Sergeant Ckoss—Are you the

calor ?—No.

Have yuu not been instructing the Counsel all this day ?—No :
bit when they asked tn,.. questions I answered them.
• Well, you are now called to contrwlict witnesses 2—l am.
• A ud you do contradict what Carrington and Dickenson swore ?-
14 to . _

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And they contradict you ?—They do.
Well, you know that it 1: two to one against you ?—I know
it is..

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A laugh and clapping took place in every part of the Court,
which te Chief Justice reproved, and having noticed two men as
particularly forward, he ordered them to be committed to the dock.
One proval to be Dickenson the wifness.
The Foreman of the Jury wished to know from Dickenson what
reliaion he was, and if he attended the Roman Catholic Chapel ?
Dickenson said he was of no religion. lie was not• a Roman Ca-
tholic. and very seldom went to church.
Dlr. Barrett persisted in saying that Carrington and Dickenson
did not communicate to him before the inquest the evidence which
they now gave in Court.
The JUDGE then proceeded to sum up, and at eight o'clock in
the evening the Jury pronounced the prisoner Nol Guilty. 6
Females were excluded during the trial, and the Court was
crowded to suffocation.