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door. It was then about 20 minutes after three
Mrs. Jane Goddard said she was related to the
Prisoner's wife. She recollected the Prisoner's
(*ming to her house ou the Monday r}fter the 14th
of Velyitary, and remembered the.boa being left
for Ilassey at her house. 'lt was opened about
three or four weeks after it was left. The list
thing she nark of was a silver ladle, arid then
some sheets and old clothes. The things were
stantl►• replaced in the box and corded up hcstiu.
It Wit swelled again two sir three hours afterwards,
in the presence of the com.table and others. Mosey
went •e to the trnstk rifwi it was in her house, and
Opened it. Until the tittle she mentioned nobody
had opened the t►unk but himself.
Cross-exansined.-11w holt WWI kept in the opeir
shop, and any hotly might have haul access to it,
tl gh she was stare nobody went. •
Re-examitted. —She remeitilrered I-Is►ssey's
say-
ing, ou Ilse 11th, that lie laid bought some sheets
fur his wife.

Thomas Goddard, the hoi.liand of the last wit•
nes•, said, that the boil %tomd on its Yid in the Alof,.
IVheis lie untied the cord mid took off the lid, he
found a Pair of pittaloon•, with a wine-grimier,
and some sheet* marked G. and B. There was
also a jacket. Ile immediately fastened down the
the truck, and sent over infornoituni of it.

Cross-exainitted.—The box was deposited with-
out any charge respecting the care of it ; any body
might have gone to it. Ile only knew the Po ioniser
biller Christmas; his general enavueter was good.
Thomas litabory, the Prisoner's brother, said, lie
saw him at rotor or five o'clock on the Sundae• the
minder was committed. He had expected him
that day by appointment, to dinner, at one o'clock.
When he came, lie said hr lad been sick in his
stomach, trout some porter he had taken. He then
asked ignores whether he had heard any thing
of that horrid murder at Greenwich. He said
no. The Prisoner then informed hint that in old
Gentleman and his housekeeper had been 'nor-
dered in a home opposite to where he had lodged,
and he said he would have been over time enough
for dinner, were it not that Greenwich was like
a fair about the murder. The Prisoner's dress
at that time was u black coat and waistcoat, and
mixed pantaloons. ‘Vitsiess asked his brother
to come to town with him the next morning,
hut he objected, saying he expected William
(fuming Hazleton) to come to inert him. In
the evening alter he retursied from London the
Prisoner said he had blipped into a ditch, ■nd
dirted his pantaloons. NVitsiess lent him another
pair to wear. On turtling nut his coat pocket
swine !nukes' pieces of silver buckle fell out,
awl as witness dealt iii vilver, he took it and
paid hint at the rate of ev, an ounce. He
kept these pieces until he heard that watcliee
had been discovered. 11'ituess having hearth about
the things, got vexed, threw them into the fire, but
took them out without their being melted, and
gave them to M►. Smith the Magistrate. The
Prisoner bought some of his sister's things at her
sale, but be did not kiwi., of his buying ally sheets.
Cruss•esauiaed.—The Prisoner had been left a
legacy ou the Wednesday after the murder. It
was about 60/.
Mr. Thomas Smith, the High Constable, said,
he received the pieces of buckle from the last wit-
ness at Peckham; he produced them in Court.
The Prisoner said they were part of the things in
the brindle lie found.

Mr. Richard Smith (the Magistrate) explained.
that he had got the piece of buckle lie now held in
his hand, ou the I4th March. from Thus. Hussey.
Thomas Humtry declared he had never given any
pieces of buckle to Mr. Smith, the constable.
This the latter directly contradicted in Court,
and declared that it was from the hands of Thomas
Hussey he got them.
Mrs. Godwin (sister to the Prisoner) said she
lived at Peckham, where there was a box belonging
to the Prisoner. %Viten she first saw it, it was full
of wearing apparel, which belonged to a deceased
kter. After the murder, and 'icier before, the
Prisoner came to the box twice; the last time was
on the Tuesday he returned from the cotiotry, three
weeks after the murder. When she opened the
box she found two watches and the hotel' in it. Her
husband stud brother took them. She saw psi one
of the watch papers the statue of Bird. Her de-
ceased sister had no sheets.
James Godwin was the husband of the last wit.
ness, rod a tailor at Peckham. His wife. found
the watches iii the box, hot he did not see them
there. and saw the moue of Bird on one of the
watch.papers. He gave them up to the Justice.
The watelwi tvere now produced.
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George Martin Bird looked at them, end declar-
ed theta to have been the property of his father.
He la►t raw them in his father's possession within
ten days of Ins death. Due of them had been his
mother's, and used to be hung up in hie tother'S
ritting•room. He had also another watery; Which
he constantly wore.
Cross•cramixed. —The housekeeper had been 14
or 15 years in his father's serener. but he was not
aware of bet having persons calling at times to see
her.

T. Larkin, a constable, produced a box whiCh
he foutid its Mr. Goddard's shop, corded up as it
was slow. It contained two shirts, two sheets; a soup
Wile, a wine strainer, a pair of gaiters, a pensioner's
ticket, and some clothes. He produced the pen-
sion ticket, which was made out in the name of
Charles Hussey, as a marine. He also gave in the
*heels, one of which was marked K. B. the other
G. B. He produced the gaiter., jacket, sponge,
&c. from the box. The gaiters had still small
marks of blood visible upon them.
Mrs. Litton was shewn these gaiters, which she
said were the same colour as those worn by the
Prisoner. It was mended in the same place that
she recollected to have once sewn it for hun.

Mr. Idiots examined the gaiters. and said that
he could slot positively sweat to their being the
Priauster'.-.lltey certainly reaesubled them iu colour.
Kemal' hell was again celled. She identified she
sheets as hemp; been the property of the late Mr.
Bud. and said. that a shirt slow produced to her out
of the hoz was Our she washed for the decanted on
the Amide), previous to hitt death. The rest of the
Clothe% *err she Prisoner's. .

Mr. Bird wire 'hewn the .direr ladle and wine-
strainer, which hr thought be saw iu his father's
house about s fortnight before lua death, but as at

was not marked he could not posit:vely'pP
identity, though he believed Ite.

Hodges, it cobstsble, prwliteetl
which were 6,usitl in the Pii•otier's box.;

the initials of Mr. Bird ul the.n.
al.o • piece of i.ew horn wl,i. la had MN. k.
(limn it, and a solver wiair.q.attirl. On going to
the pl.‘ce a• r,eklioan %heir Ilus.e)'s lona lay, we
at hie one pound and two 2/. notes on
each of wlich wo. I he endorsement of the deceased,
%%Inch %sus proved by Mr. !lira to be his (tuner's
liasad.i.sati,ig. U t Wt ay the Ist elnly, two
men orte rintaltrard to thaw the pond et Greta.
with, when the hammer he now produced
wii. found.
Llt owl was here called, identified the hunt.
trier, a. liewg that missed foam ammo
lota took, ern days Isadore the murder was committed.
Jolla. Bohm', the I)eddine.tott constialtle, said Its
irrebird the Prisniier, and found of))))) hint a watch
and letters, which he gave to Mr. Baron., at Bow.
'meet, The hi-oiler also admitted that ha low'
thrown • riot, to the miss.

The watch and ring were proved by Mr. Bird to
have been tint property of his father.
Hussey's' declaration before use Magistrate., nt
Gseetrivicli, was here proved by Mr. lisekssell, for
Solicitor for the prosecution, and remt to tho
Court—it merely related to his statestsesst of haviox,
found the bundle near the Greenwich Acusirm).
The Prisoner at the time, thisegte hr odium-11 his
declaration 'sus correctly reduced to orators, let
refused to sign it.
Two letters lOnsid on his person when rirre.ird
iu Oxfordshire, were also put m usid rt.hifl ; one 10:14
addressed to his brothers itstd sisters, the other to
Mr. Wrinisley. • Both contuissed a staieresent that
he Will then on hie passage to Americo—had found
the bundle and thing, by accident its the way al.
ready described. 0 r letter contained Ova se.
matkable declaration, that no imputation ought to
fall on William Hazleton us he knows notitint
about it."

The particulars of the tracing ottt tcol arresting'
the Prisoner at Deildingtoo, and of the watch sod
rings being found upon hi,,,, tool Ins etinfeesion of
having thrown one into the privy, wh. le It Wild af-
terwards discovered, were all proved by erititesses
in the same manner that they have been al!taitly des.
tailed to the public. Also the c rruulstaoce tut
Vickery ending another ring which fell Irwin Lis
boot at Buw-street.
George Young said that he lived 83 servant at
the Tiger's Head, Greenwich, where the Prisoner
used frequently to lodge—Hazleton was a compel.
nion of his, and he recollected the hose of his get.
ting cut by the accideilt, when he fell over a wall,
and cut his right hand. This was about a month
before Mr. Bird's Murder. Hasletoo, sheet hiti
hand was bleeding, came with tole Prieotter to the
Tiger's HeadL.the batter
Wed at
,Illett dress..-il
in a black coat, black waistcoat, and white trots-
sers.--.[Here the Prisoner's jacket, found in his
box with some marks of blood, was Aeon to the
witness, but he denied that the Prisoner was dreese I
in it on the night of Haaletoit's.accideist, or to gaiters
then.]—He did nut see the frowner until hitt-past
ten o'clock on the night when Mr. Bird Wt. sup-
posed to be murdered ; at that time he saw him its
the tap-room, and not before.
Cross-exaritined.—Pid not see the Prixotier the
day of the murder, Gut saw 111111 011 the night of the
murder at the hour he meittiooed ; he was then
dressed in a black coat and waistcoat, and grey
trowsers.
Witiosley; the lancila•ly of the Tiger's
Head, said, that she Ow Iva attended at I h t.te bar,
and oat the night in question She saw Hussey in the
lodge-room up stairs, as near as possible within a
few minutes before or after ten o'clock. He might
have been in the tap-ruotis before. anal she taught
have overlooked him. He was dressed in a black
coat, ataistcoat, cud trowsers. She could lint hear A
person walking about in the tap-room from her bar,
He might have been there long before she saw 1010,
George Spares said, that lie was in the tap-room
of the Tiger's Head oo the night an question. It
was certainly past ten o'clock on that night Wine
the Prisoner, who's+ he knew, came into the tap-
room ; he saw him again the neat mooning.
Cross-examined.—The only person sits witness
in the tap-room was his own labourer ; at vend
others were about the room.

Win. Halltbone, the Secretary of the gicicte
Odd Fellow., said he knew the Prisoner, who.was
an Odd Fellow, hut did not belong toalieir Loige.
To the hest of his recollection mode
on the alight alluded to, and to the best of his it.
membrance Hussey came in between Moe and ten
o'clock. The Lodge met before right o'clock, but
the Prisoner was not Certainly there for some time
after.
Stephen Epsom *as an attendant on the Mem.
bets of the Lodge. The Prisoner was th. re a con-
siderable time before the hour of Oolong the Lodge,
which wilt ten o'clock. He could not !peak pre-
cisely as to the time he entered.
11'illtain Coulter said that he knew the Prison, r
personally, and saw him enter the Lodge at about
a quarter before ten o'clock, and not earlier.
Mrs. Bennett said she was a washerwoman. On
the Sunday When the murder was discovered, the
Prisoner came to her house; and left it bi f ,Ie two
or three o'clock; or at the time the afternoon
Church bell. were ringing.
The case being now closed. The Court called on
the Prisoner for his defence.

The Prisoner then addressed the Court literally
as follows:

" My Lord and Gentlemen of the Jury, I soli innocent.
Satnrday, the 7th of February, at half.pvit tines
o'clock in the afternoon, I went part oft he way to Old that.
lOU with Wm. Haskton. We stopped at the Shit. soil
let ; I b• hese we had Iwo pinta of be.l, and inyse.l had a
pipe nf tobaece. We parted shortly after, mid 1 came for
the Tiger's Head through the Colleke at tot leisorc, and ar,
rived there shout live o'clock, or ouinewlo tr ni us that time.
reMained there tl.c lemaluder of the erelong'. or till ...veto
o'clock, or so, within half an hour. Dorms the tisoic 1 was
there, there was two women came tbs.. use of the consit.,
from 110.11 e pl..ct at a cousideo able dioanc.., for they saiii airy
had 45 miles that day ; one of thimo wax mini. latigited
mod fainted away; Mrs. WIMP'. y r. toys red 15... and hwlhrd
her temples with vinegar, soul atierward• bi 1.112111 6. r Mead
and this se and porter, and sieved %so to b. d Atc. that
there was a young man came in emi sot ii. she surn.• box as
myself, opposite to me; he was slrs-5.,...1 in a btu. kin and
troosaese, and called for a pint of be... Thor, tea, a y g
man, by the name of Brojamin Priestley, he went tulle.• fire to
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