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London, England, 1855-06-12 00:00:00

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COL-BT.—June 11.

Louisa Harrison, a well-dressed, good-looking young
woman, with an infant in her arms, surrendered o take
her trial upon a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Counsel stated the case, which has been already pub-
lished in our police reports. The prisoner, some time
ago, swore, on the trial of a man named Mallett, that
he had entered her house, tied her hands, and robbed
her, "with violence." Mallet was sentenced to death,
but his sentence was commuted to transportation. Soon
afterwards the prisoner brought a similar charge against
another permn, and suspicion was created. Mallett re-
ceived a pardon, and the present prosecution was brougi t.
Formal proof of the trial and conviction of the man
Mallett was put in evidence, and Mr. Buckler, one of the
short-hand writers of the court, produced the notes of the
evidence given by the defendant upon the occasion. Her
statement was to the effect that she was sitting in her room
about half-past s:x o'clock on the evening of the 11th of
Decem:)er with her two children, the eldest of whom was
four years of age, when a man who was c irrving a bundle
knocked at the door, and told her he had brought her
some dressmaking work from his sister. She said that she
asked him into her room, and that he immediately blew
out the candle, and aaid he must have her money, and
forced her pocket from her gown, and took from it 20s.
in silver. The man then produced two pistols, and
threatened to shoot her children if she made any noise,
and then heat her with a stick, and afterwards tied her
hands together with a rope, and forced her down between
two chairs, in the position in which she was found by
the neighbours. She said that she described the appear-
ance of the trr.n to a constable named Finnis, and in
consequence of what he told her she went on the follow-
ing night, the 12th Dec., to a penny theatre in White-
chapel, where she saw the prisoner Mallett, and imme-
diately recognised him as the man who had robbed her,
and she swore positively to his identity.
John Harvey, a potman at the Bull tap, said that upon
hearing the alarm on the evening of the 11th of Decem-
ber, he went into the defendant's house, and found
her sitting on the knee of a man named Koster. Her
hands were tied together, and she was bleeding from the
temple, and seemed almost insensible.
'

Cross-examined—The defendant's hands were tied
tightly with two knots, and he was obliged to use his
teeth to untie them. There was not the slightest ap-
pearance of "shamming" in the conduct of the defend-
ant. The oldest child of the defendant first ran into the
tap and gave the alarm, by saying that a man had killed
her mother. The child appeared to be very much
frightened.
Thomas Koster, a person employed at the Bull inn-
yard, said that upon hearing the alarm given by the de-
fendant's child he went to her house, and found her
jammed in between two chairs, with blood flowing from
several wounds in her head. Her hands were tied toge-
ther, and the last witness had some difficulty in loosening
the cord. _ _ _ _

Cross-examined--The defendant's child was present,
and she appeared very much frightened. From the
manner the cord was tied round the wrists he did not
think it possible for the defendant to have tied it herself
—at all events, he (witness) could not have tied it round
his own wrists in the same manner. The defendant did
not appear to know him when he picked her up, and she
appeared almost insensible and unconscious of what was
going on.
Emma Ferguson, the conk at the Bull tap, said that
she saw the defendant very soon after the alarm bad
been given, and assisted in bringing her to herself.
Her husband was sent for, and a policeman came with
him, and the defendant then made a statement of her
having been robbed and assaulted by a man.
In answer to a question put by Mr. Ryland, the wit-
ness said that she did not think any one could have put
on such an appearance as that exhibited by the de-
fendant.

Mr. J. H. Cook, a surgeon, residing in the Minories,
deposed that he was called in to see the defendant on
the evening in question, and found her sitting on the
knee of the itness Koster, insensible and unable to
speak. She was bleeding from the nose, and upon ex-
amining her he discovered two abrasions on the right
temple, and also a contused wound on the back of the
head. He was now of opinion that all these injuries
might have been caused by the defendant herself.
Cross-examined.—Upon the trial of the man Mallett
witness was examined as a witness for the prosecution.
He did not then say that the injuries might have been
caused by the prosecutrix because he was not asked the
question. He considered that the wound at the back of
the head might have been occasioned by the defendant
knocking it against some' hard substance, such as the
corner of a mantel-shelf. He bad never in his experience
met with a case where a person had wilfully caused her-
self such an injury. In his evidence at the former trial
he stated that the injuries were in all probability in-
flicted by a stick that was found in the house, and such
an instrument would certainly have occasioned them.
There was blood on the stick when he saw it. If the
defendant had inflicted the injuries herself by that means
she must have tied her own hands afterwards. On the
11th of December he considered the defendant was three
months advanced in the family way, and she had since
been delivered of the child that was now in her arms.
During the evening the defendant had a convulsive fit.
It was undoubtedly a real one.
Charles Mallett was then examined. He declared
most positively that he was quite innocent of the rob-
bery, and said that he did not even know where the Bull
Inn-yard was.
Some other witnesses were then examined, who to a
certain extent confirmed the statement of Mallett as to
the manner in which he had passed the evening of the
robbery : and this closed the case for the prosecution.
The Recorder, upon the whole of the evidence that
had been adduced, said it appeared to him to be insuffi-
cient to support the charge ; they might, in charity,
come to the conclusion that the man Mallett was inno-
cent, and that the defendant had made a mistake as to
his identity ; but he really could not see how the jury
upon the facts before them could come to the conclusion
that no robbery had, in point of fact, been committed,
which they must do before they could convict the de-
fendant.
A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken.
There was a second charge of the same kind against
the defendant, but it was arranged that it should not be
taken until Friday morning.