The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-16 00:00:00

CHARGES OP MURDER.

Mary Stone, aged 29,wits charged 01l the oath or her sister,
H inlet II impten, with havltig wilfully 'murdered her female
Held, in September, NIG, at Richmond.
Toe prisoner, a most interesting young woman, was placed
co the seat 'err the table, as sheappeared too weak to sup.
hurt Itm st If in die 113941 glare where prisoners stand. She
s:ooned dejected and worn down ; her features, Whit:4 Were
imelligent and expressive, indicated C.:in:me anxiety and
emotion. tto bail;; arraigned, she pleaded in a faint mid
a4.,nixed tone, " Not Guilty."
Mrs. II mipton was pot into the witoesses box. She en.
geared a time voting woman, about 19 or 20 years ti,'age. oit
casting her eyes to where the prisoner sat, she burst late
tears, and exclaimed with great apparent auguit "0, nay
sever, my sister t"ree prisoner (Muted during her sister's
agitation, hut War speedily recovered; the latterofzer having
li-en taken out into the open air, was soma well erough to give
her evi.leuce, which she aid with less ent•preot entireness.
meant than mi4lit have bees expected. "In the month of,
September. PIG, she said, I slept, as was my custom,with my
sister. About too in the. morning she said she wire in extreme
pain, and shortly after she was delivered sir a female child ;
it cried, and I wanted to call in assistance, Ilnt she. would nut
111:!, Very shortly after the child was barn, my sister forced
bar brad into the infant's 111011111, anti rhaaked it, and then
thrust the bndy into a tyro under the bed. She threw herself,
on the bed, but got tip in at moment; I then said I'd coil fur
somebody; my sister replied, that it' I attempted to dose she
"took/ kill rue, snit !lieu herself. I WAS SU frightened that I
desisted. My sister left the bOdy in the pan that night, and
•tin the following 'nor ii iii made up a tireiu the rouin,atici tried'
te bluetit, but the dash made such a crackling noise that she was
emid it would be heard, and she took it .olf the fire acid re-
placed it in the pan. The neat morning she took it .duwe
stairs,and burnt it in the copper to ashes--she then cleaned the
Copper onl, and threw the ashes on the dunghill.'
Cross-examined.-1 first told this about twelve months ago,
or.shortly after I got married. I let it out one night in my
size's, and ou my being questioned by my husband, I cosi-
Afeased the truth. My sister kept the house we lived iu ; it had
only three rooms, and being thinly partitioned, so that what
passed within might be heard by the neighbours. My sister
sod Isle pt in the same bed; my sweetheart then, but husband
Vow, in the opposite room to ours ; a 311411 named Kenyon
*ad my bristlier geoerally slept in the hard room. I never
said my sister, who MIS iso unmarried woman, was pregnant,
before this matter took place. I don't know that any body
c.stieed it. My wisteria ill usage commenced about a fortnight
after it hap ;seneil ;the then threatened to turn me out ot doom:
She disliked my liii•trriage, tlimigh I never 1141 ill-will to her
or expressed myself to that etket to any body. I never said
to Mrs. Wilks that I'd ruin the prisoner, or that I wished her
dead to get the 5001. out of the bank. I lieVer said that is I
was not of age, I could not get the money yet, or hoped that
sere might die first. I believe we are entitled to 5101. which,
is in the Bank. My sister bad a child before this last, it
Isn grown boy, has always lived with her, and she heats ft
well.

.This was the sole witness fur the prosecution.
: -Mrs. Wilks said, that in September,' 1818, she lived at
where sue knew the prisoner. Witness repeatedly
.heard the prosecntria wish ter her sister's (the prisoner's)
death swing that site wanted her money. She remeni.
tiered :ie.• •ay Mg on cae tic:Asian, " I wish she was dead,
due then l oruid.l have the worry, and my hushand'aud me
valid get into business on our own account."
Mr. J:10 ice Aishott eoininvited upon the improbability of
-the whole story ; twit no one had observed the prisoner to be
pregnsut ; tlist wine in the hunse heard any noise, and that
proseenirix should have-su long coaccnied the der it
i ue, and concluded by observing to the Jury, that if the wi-
se:pa. had really conswitted.the act in the manner described,
nothing wan more unlikely than that she should have q garret:cif,
. and almost on:liediately after the fact, with the pesson who
balanced tier life in her hands.
• The Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of Not.
Citi;ty.

Mary Pnisiter,oahr thirteen years of age. last Junary, stood
charged with the der of hie bastaid child. Several wit-
nesses proved the bit th at' this child in a healthy state, on the
21111 Julie. The prisoner seeiued fond of it, but it was found
dead will/her two days afterwardsoud with some livid marks
about its mouth, which the WOllllll who assisted in dressing it,
after its birth, attriluited to aossietising like a convulsive tit.
The chief witness to prove that the child died a violent deaili,
was Mr. Newman, a surgeon, who was decidedly of opinion,
that it otet its death by crangnlatiuti and fractures in the
head; lint two witnesses, who eisirily-reniained with the pri-
soner and child, repeated their declaration, that her trtyt-
Saint of it seemed materially kind and attentive. Not

Mr. R. 'tampion wasslotlieted for eseapkig from tbe.ro!es
of the king's B
The facts were merely these:—The defendant's debts were
over:Ml.lle broke iliernles,was at Hamburg!), and other parts
of the north of Europe; and was out retaken mild two or
twee months ago.
Mr. Adolphus, for the defendant, contended, dent the pri.
woe,' cutdd be only amenable to indietenead for nu actual en-
tape from the walls of a prison. A breach of this contract
Man merely a departure from a morel obligation, and not
breach of a legal yeti-tract punishable as a ntisnetut•anor.
The Learoeil Judge disseuted from flis view of the ques-
tion, lulu de•t•iated that what were termed she tales legally
Imported act teal cotoluely, and that a breech uI them was a mis-
deal, ithor in toe eye of the law.
fin Jury found the defendant Guilty, and the Court sea•
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The Manchester papers state that affairs there still
continue in a menacing posture. A small portion, and
only a small portion, of the ref:ma:tory workmen have
availed themselves of the protection of the civil power,
to resume their labour : the great body of the discon-
tented remains in open defiance, subsisting oral preca-
rious bounty, or upon funds will. h must be rapidly di-
minishing. From 12 to 15,000 parson:4have Len now
nearly five weeks voluntarily Cregoing the ineuns of
supporting themselves and their families.