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babe& fluid not bun joining those who were drinking down
stairs. lin. Hunt and the deceased entered the room about three
mitnatee after I came in ; they were both drunk. The mother
sourelled with me for not ketping in the fire. The daughter told
her Lot to be scolding me, for I had nothing to do with it. They
then bejean to quarrel and the girl pushed her mother until she
tell down, and the chair with her, against the wall. The back part
•t the had went against the wall, Fut she did not complain of be-
ing hurt. She got up and went down stairs. The daughter was sitting
up feeding her child. bat she is not married. She continued up till
hen mother came hack ; there was • light in the room all the while. I
was in bed, but did not go to sleep. airs. Hunt came back at half_
pest IY, and the daughter wee still tip. When she came back I
ebbed the daughter to give me a sup of water, and Mrs. Hoot said
abe would see me d—d before she would let her daughter give
the any. I then put my gown net to go down stairs to get some:
noel 1 was-going to take the pitcher, and tae mother said she would
see me dam.. d afore I should have it. I left the pitcher, and went
omen stairs, and the mother then called me several insulting
names. When•l catne back they were both up Making a noise.
The daughter was begging the mother to go to bed, and the
cusughter did go to bed with the child. The mother then fail
asleep in the chair. I was afraid the house would be set on lint,
and could not sleep. In • abort time the mother fell off her
chair amass the .fire. She fell sideways on the lire. 1 heard
her bend strike flipiatt the wall. She fell on the left ride.
She did not make a noise bat continued to sleep on. I milled
tent to he 4 bat she did not 111111 Wet. Site continued in the same state
Leta' remained awake. The candle burnt out about two o'cloCk. I
was afraid et her, and therefore made no efhirt to assist her. After
site watch had called three, I hand her get Lie 'and go across the
wont towards the prisoner's bed; I heard him ask, hello ! whose
potties their hands upon my bed ? and she then began to curse
and swear, and say, she thought she was going to her own bed.
She then went Lenin the room to her daughter's, and told he she
had been to the young man's bed, thinking it was her own. She
told he; daughter to get a light, who refused, and the mother
dragged her out of bed. The daughter struck • tight, and the
mother knocked it out of her hand. They maarelled for some time,
and then the young man said he had put up with this work a good
*bile, and would not put up with it any longer. The deceased
began to call him all sorts of ill names. He repeated the words
again, and she then abused hint worse still. The prisoner end the
daughter told her to go to bed, but she would not ; and 1 then
heard her the ea.. - It then , seemed that
the .- I then heard a rustling
his bed. She Jumped up
take that, and then went
if it were a blow. I
prisoner. I then heard
seemed as if they were throw.
daughter cry out to the pre-
her another. All then be-
the tithe. The daughter
di, end struck a light. I
and the prisoner was stand.
mother was" dose" (dead)
and saw sonic blood on her
prisoner, you have murdered
pay ; and he said he was not
till the watchman came. The
prismier remained till he came,
I as so alarmed that I neither
at the deceased. I was
whether she recollected his going
igEdward, and telling him to go
not.
examined.—About one o'clock
se in George-street, V. bite-
of the deceased, and went
the door of the chamber.
wt killed her mother. I told
and he did so The woman
her dead. I asked how it hap-
prisoner had struck the woman
• srd this, and desired that I
head-board broken in two,
was another piece afterwards
pieces.

bed, and found the head.
a watchhouse ; on my way I
wilted -the prisoner how he came to do such a deed ? Ile said ha
did it. and was sorry for it, and ready to give himself up to the
laws of his country. I asked hint why he had hit her with the
bused, and whether he hit her more than once ? and he said " he
did, and he hoped that God would forgive hind." Ile said site
bed been must abusive all the night, and he could get no sleep
foe her.
By the priaaaa—The girl was noisy in the street while going to
watchhosse, The pasowa did mention, as soon as I entered
the room, that it win necessary to send for a surgeon.

Dr. Curtis examined—l am the surgeon who examined the body
the deceased. I think it was on the next day after her death.
The body was at the watchhouse. I found a considerable tumour
cast above tete angle of the right eve, a bruise on the right
temple, and a small scratch on the nose; those were the only ex-
ternal marks. I removed the skullcap, and found a considerable
effusion of blood oa the surtace of the brain, about two or three
ounce:i. I dissected the brain, and there appeared to have been
great injury inflicted on the external part of the head. I intend
smile coagulated Wood, which must have been eraduced by a blow
on the bead. These was a slight fracture of the skull bone on the
opposite side. The marks on the external part of the head were
such as were calculated to occasion the appearances on the brain.
A slight degree of violence en a person in liquor would perhaps
produce death. He thought the deceased was in liquor from the
turgid state ol the blood vessels. I thould think the blows on the
head, from the appearance, would produce immediate death.
By the 'o t; er-sA violent tall against a wall or a grate, by a
person in liquor might produce the appearances which were en the
bead ; and it was quite possible for such external blows to produce
the inertial injuries I have described, and cause death.
, The 4ughtee eras called, and re-examinedby the COL' Coat,—l
went to rmd at ten o'clock, and did not sit up feeding my child till
my nsother came benne.
This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner said in his defence, that the deceased was a woman
very much addicted to drinking, and when in that state she ems
most abusive. He had fur several nights been much annoyed by
her conduct, and had borne it patiently : at length he complained
sit it ; tied as he was a man who was obliged to rise early to gain
has bread, it was necessary he should have his night's rest. On the
night in question she was particularly drunk and abusive ; and he
assured the Court and Jury that he bad received two blows pre-
vious to his striking her the blow by whiten she fell; but lie did not
know whether the blee• or the fall occasioned her death.
To an answer from the Court, he said, he gut his bread prin.
eipelsy. in the warehouse of a Mr. Brown, a who:finger.
Ye. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, and observed upon
the very considerable discreparmy between the testimony of the
Wit04:114111, Whaullin and the daughter of the deceased; but at the
seals time, if theittry believed that the deceased's death was oc-
'Alarmed by the blow given tober by the presence, without any thing
wore than words being the provocation, then he cce,kl tell them
that in law the crime did not amount to murder, for no words
would justify death • there must be some previous blow given to
reAuct it to manslaughter; but if they could satisfy themeeleee
that the prisoner had been previously snuck by the deceased, then
tbey would be justified in finding him guilty of manslaughter
ouly, for which be also stood indicted upon the Coroner's Inquest.
It, however, any of those blows which the woman had received by
tier repeated falls against the wall and,the tire grate, and which
Wows, the respectable medical gentleman who bad been te-
em:used had said, were, in his opinion, capable of producing
Ws appearances on the brain which he had described, had oe-
easioaed the detail of the poor woman, then they would be bound
to oceuit the prisoner. The whole of the evidence most dearly
*sowed that no previous malice existed On the part of the
ptieoner towards die woman ; and in all cases of doubt, and dr
great doubt, like the present, their verdict ought to be on the side
of the accused.
The Jury, after consulting a short time, returned a verdict of
Manslaughter.
:Jr. Juana Pane observed, that the verdict was a very proper
voe, and quite in accordance with his own opinion on the cue.

heard her go towards the young 'nail's bed.
the young man was dreeang himself; and
es if he were pushing the deceased from his
and said she would be d—dif she would tak
won the room, and I head something as
thought the blow was given by her on the
another blow and a board break; it seem&
Mg one another upon it. I heard the daug
limier to ;:re over, or he would murder her
tame gmet. I remained in the bed all th,
west to the window, and called the watch,
faund the deceased lying on her back, and
log ey his own bedside. I could see the mot
While I waa in bed. I then got up, and a
forehead. The daughter said to the prisane
my mother, 1.6011.1 you go to run away ; a
go ug tgyun away, but would stop till the
waft fear the watchman, and the prisoac
and talk the prisoner into custody. 1 wag a
heard my name pass, not did I go to luuk
perfectly sober that night.
The paianner asked die witness whether al
the healer at the stairs and calling Edwari
• •• • 1 but she said abe did- not.
...,..:„.najlrown, the watchman, cumin
anise at the lodging-house it
• , fetched by the daughter of
_ .
and saw the prisoner at tr
•-••L" . me the man had almost kil
tSis pm . • to go back into the room, and
was Ifying on her back, and I found be,ee
panel, and the daughter said the prisoner
with ;he headboard. The prisoner heard I
would send fur the doctor. I saw the lira
andlring on the prisoner's bed. There was
holm' under the bed broken into three piece
The latter pieces were now peoditeed.
Witoesa-1 looked at the prisoner's be
Lard 'lnc. I took the prisoner to die teal