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Thursday, 'Pesch•.eieh came into the workshop, and asked "
should be frightened to see a sick person." I said no, and went up t
the attic, where Welch's bed was, where I saw the female tie oe-
scribed as his sister, lying on her back on the bed. I would have
se /Trued her to be dead. Prisoner took hold of her left hand, w hicks
was clenched, and pulled it open, and it clotted again of itself,
inqatiredll he had had any medical assistance for the woman, and
he told te dire. Tbomas'e doctor had attended her. liefiree this,
Welch tdlt(, me Mr. Thomas, our employet, had letril lilm. some
Mane*, with-which he bad sent his wife home to Irelepl. Wel
I (VII t,itsatten pa to account fur the wonsan'af:lness. Pr. Thom
came that same afternoon, and I told him 1 had been ...)13ttaire an
related what I mai. diubsvouently I told 'Welch.' had mentionser"
the circumstance of his sifter's Mint to Mr. Thomas, and Welsh
mid "he had told Master of it, snit intaginxf he would bave
called to see her." I oblerved no blood about the bed or mom;
there 'were tiles at the foot of the stairs. On Friday,. the Ist Jut),,
die *ay deceased died, the prisotiet Lyons came doe Nand said the
woman " was gone," and requated somebody. meght be sent
for Welch: Welch wan 'cot for, and came. He rent upateirs.
and in about half an hour after, I heird a noise, me I .seppostd In
his MCATI. iVhen he came down I asked Welch what note, teal
was ? and he told me they had found a scratch in her pate. and the.
people above stairs were talking of sending for the berdle: He
also said he had been matt:bin for something above stairs, and
they asked hirt,what he tau looking for ? to which he answered
he IVILS sehing for a piper that contained Mme flour, which be
hid procured from somebody to' stop the hlood. Nothing farther occurred on that occasion. Welch told me on the same Ala, thee
on the Sunday before he had got more to drink than usual, std
had lain down on the bed, anderhiie there ifs eat Mycelia) woke
him up, and said his sister had pih pn coat and gone dowry stairs, and that he went alter her,Rhd in Waging het INVP *lll4
arms she had put her foot on thc sterand shoved them. both
hack, when she fell against the tilt 4, whi'th accident oecarimed
the scratch in her pate. -On the Thursday after the deceased's
death, I examinedahe tile; one by one, and could see do blood on,
theta, Pt OR ale Isiah-cam. Some of theatfles were whole, and
others broken. 'Welch told me that his sister expressed bee wish
trot he shouldfolley her es principel mourner, at; het hniband
was away ; and also drat she wished to be hurried in St. rsiles'e
Church-yartL I asked Welch if his sister was a married woman,
and he told me she was, andhad, meted from.ber husband.
Crows-examined by Mr. BARRY—The prisoner Welch told me
the deceased was his sister,. end-I did not knots!)e was his wife.
Antoinette Fenario--I am niece of Mr. Stunt', who keeps • pub;
lie-house, from which the prisopetAVelcliget hes beer. The woman
who died on the lot of July permed as.hle sister,; I ear bee two at
three hotels the week she died, when she appeitd very ill ; I was
there en ate Thursday before she died, About three &dab in the
afternoon; she was sitting behind the door, ape. seemed eitrentelv
ill ; the prisoner Lyons was there. Qn the name day I, asked
We!ch if the sick women was not his wife, [Mt he denied le.
I'hunday deceased was speaking .witb,me, and appeared oreat to
communicate something to nia, !flit Lyons mete mut the toom and
the decanted said "!rush," and stopped sheet. She appeared In
her senses at that time. •
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Ann Waldie—l am arient to Mr. Thomas. Ob the Ist pf July
the prisoner \i'elch came to m" master's home. On thejdondaw
he mole Sit the house to obtaidleave for the day, and spoke of hfri,
sieter's hrring been suddenly taken ill after breakfast with brae of,
he fits, lie said •" she had scratched her fire and his. herself lei;one (ghee fits,'? bet did not certain how. Qn the following 030111,,
,ing he, mkt; me " hehad had the parish ?mane With her, but the. .
physician ar :d lie could do nothing to 111:e:her." This second cone
versation was on Tuesday. 'On the lowing Friday, before
twelve, Welch came to ore and asked me for some flour to stop th
bleedipg from the scratches on his sister's chin and temple.
gave Eim about n teaspoonful of flour, and, he sold 'that wguld
enough. I asked him if that was,ail he warned, mid he sell yes...,
Cross-examined—I have known Welch khout a year, and ollee
thderetood the deceased to be las sister for teveral months before bet
John Willlams--I an: a Pidteer aid aleeier in the employment
of Mr. Thomas, and a .fellow-workman of the pritoper %Vetch-
Welch told me atone lithe his wife tees in Reading, and at another
that she was gone to Ireland. I understood faom Welch; that of:
this twq women living with him, one westis sister, and the other
her audit. On Friday morning, lit July. iValch came m me.
where I was at work, in Southampton row : this was between 1111:10
and ten o'clock ; he was very much agitated. I asked him for
some turpentine, and lie not appeating to understand the,
"Oh! I am maddened--distratel and entail.''-1 asked, "What's
the matter ?" Pritones answered, " She one." 1 asked him
What ? your glues ?" He said, " I es—my sister ;" atiti
bis
mimed in a most agitated state, putting lodide to his head.
asked theyrisoner, " Have you,got a coPin ?" His reply was, " My
master is very good tonic; he fill see to th.t." He further.said.
" He could unt bear to see her ; she had spruncupin her bed and
looked at tini." Th%t wes all, except that his sister had told hint
during her illness, nobody but himself Was to follow her, end Shit
was to he betted in St. Cites's. Prisoner said, "He shobld, bury
her on Sunday, and have her screwed down ai soon as poailble.,
for, poor`, reature, she would nct keep, or be fit to be nby any
body. hen Welch came to me that morning, he hed e Men
a Clean,
grey coat 7 had nerd- seen on him before, hie usual Teething dress
being a blue or fustian jacket, this occurred between nine and
ten in the mernieg. I have no doubt It was before eleven.
Cross-examined —I am sure from a Circumstance that occiirred
in my business that this conversation took place before eleeen. Pei..
loner was trying. I have related the conversation that tooltilace,
wore for word,
1111r..W. Theimaa—l am a master bnilder.-atui the Male prleona
was In my employment as labourer to Ott 7r.r.
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home lq_Little Turnstile, into wlikh,l put the et, tiekkn
It ";-1-rife him extteosr, and as I hell ah- ePtelon of hbn.
OR the 13th July, 11314, ht. came into my service, what I an 7
derelood him to be a married man, end that his wife then Ikea.
with him. In the course of last rioter he told, she hie hitt
was :taken seriously ill, in consequence of en acv dent that had
befallen, his children. lie represented the children to have drank
boiling water oet of the tea.ketde, Which occasioned theft: death.
He said his wife was subject to. fits, on account of her Oak f
procured, a subecriptien for him. Subsequently, some time In last
alarch,:he told me his wife wag gone to the country. Af Mid-
summer he went to my house in Little Turnstile, where he told me
his sister and cousin lived with him. I never aseertatned that.
the person he called his sister was really his wife till Sunday, the
3dJuly, the Sunday after her death. On Monday, June 27, a few
day* before her ileath,..l asked Witch how his sister did, and he an..
swe-ed, " Sue was vet,' ill,and last night net with a alight accitleat.”
I asset? thh natute of it, and he told nu; he laid laid himself down
on the bed by her and fell asleep, and that afterward' tits tousiet
awoke him and told him his sister had gone down stairs. He got
up and fp/lased her, end overtook her teterephe got to the area
door. He Olen took her round the Resist, and Wel in the set of
carrying her up stairs, when, having got to about the fourth ter
fifth step, she pu; out her foot, and by a sudden epting threw them
holh back ; in falling she struck her head lira against the sash;
teboUnded from thut, over the banister? upon the etooes, on
„which
she fell. ,Welch said either mopes or tiles, I am, not mid which,
'but Fe cntainly used the e:mression " Milt" , I eked if
she had been Mot ; he told Me ' she had a slißtit viratch on tile
back part of her head," describing the place. Qn the following
Fridat•le came to me, and meld " his suttee iree pee it last, and
would have gone half an hour before only she waited to see him, et
order to give directions about her funeml." (A laugh.) These
were \Vetch's words. He told me ier."l !'n the Owing that be
could rot sleep on the .bedstead where, his sister died, or In tles.
house again, for (MI. On the Eunda,l,- after the bd July 1 learned
that the deceased wait prisoner's wife, and not his sister,
Cross-esamined—l don't think it extraordinary prirogef shout
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reflise to Bleep on the bed Where the deceased died, parti6ularly
1 know him to_he of a timid disposition.
,Thamas Chandler_l am a baker in Little Turnstile. en SA:
Midas, morning, 2d July, about a quarter past seven, the female
}themes came to my shop, and asked me to give her a /itch flour r**7
put to a woman's bad head to stop the bleeding.
Did you give her any ?—,-No.
'Why ?—1 told her *acre she dealt for her bread they mgt:
perhaps, give her sonic flour, and to go there. She-was a strong*,
10 me, and did net deal with rite. 1 knew of the inquest wilesi
occurred.

Thormss Kennedy.—l am landlord of the Black Horde, ird b; -
thet to Mrs. Dooovan, the former witness. I Went to the hoofe
where the deceased Mary Welch was lying, and fbund die c.orwi.
in the coffin, and a number of persona preset', ready to attend toc
funeral. This was on Sunday ; the lid Was on the coffin, but ne•
nailed ; I lifted oft' the lid, and took the head of the mese up
when my hand went into a large wound on the beet part of At
bead ; cap and all went into the cot, and bleed was on lin? hand.
I fotbfd the funeral. Welch was present, and I inquired bow that.
had happened he shade answer " What was his wife to me ; IbPd
no business to interfere." I told him " there was evidenit, teadit-
thing wrong." I forbid the undertaker to bury the and pre-
vented the tiherel. li'elit said OS deceased bad sllfped on At:
bottotri step of the stairs. Next morning (Monday), I weac Wien the
beadle and examined the stairs Carefully, but could ftnt nr nice ht
Lobel there. I then examined the sacking of the liar. where the
woman .had slept; there was blood on it ; some fair had belt;
pteced 'ever it. I looked tit tbe bed and bolster, Mid thee wig blood
on them, and also on the bhards in the room. A cap I gar wit
also bloody ; Hour had Seen put over the bed ai le ell ay the sacking.
I saw a jacket, found in the room ; there tifizre markt of Hood on
the sleeve. The beadle found the jacket In a cupboard.
James Tayfor.--1 ant beadle of S.. Gile?.'s partsh. I tic'
Sunday to stop the funeral of 'Welch's wife. 1 told the male ph.
toner I had heard the deceased was mnoderbd, and should take hint
into custody. I observed, the body mast be examined by medial
men. I examined the body and florid a wound on the head 1
took Welch to the watchhouse. .te told me at list statchhouse
the deceased had fallen down stairs, and I asked hiM why he
not sent for a doctor ; he gave a vague.answer, and dal(' lie did rist
know Why he had not done so. I afterwards took Lyons into Hs,
tod.,,c-, and she asked one no questions why I did so. I examinee!
the staircase carefully, and found no blood marts on It in and pelt.
but therc.were marks of blood on the bed, the sacking, arid the.
&Oster ; there were also marks under the hid on the boars, which
appeared to have been caked by the blood
The floor seemed to have been washed, and flour strew^il
1 found a man's jletet between the bolster and Me ;
ere two etre
back part of the jacket was stained with bluedi ; taherc,e v
a handkerchief, en.passing thrraigh the odd
lan old clothadroani blood. e ipbnanl:elletnf
ar
sonic shavings ; these were all stain- with
olve was
ii,e.
the house 1 tound a hatchet, and under the she. . found,.
same state as at present.
er were hereeirodece,!, 'fel tiering bAen'
(The hatchet and hammer
by
coy,
jt
handed tip to the beeth, were examta the .t irn
hammer ; there was no blood mark on either, but were in e
y.
The !ratchet was a formidable looking weapon. The caps, ha d-
koechief, woollen cltith and jacket, rflith had be?n alluded ?ti in , e
evidence. were alsceexhibited, and submitted to the inspection of the
,vuep. They were all more oe lesietalred with btood, rartiettlirly
the jacks: which had considerable stains on the back put of'it,
and AIM *limit the sleeves. The bed, If it deserves thAztle.
has keen mote
that Once mectioned, was likewise
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