The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-08 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

shouhl ife , one in the night—that he would not stop by tiny means.
. abint five, intim/es afterwards, she slipped r eloale, oil ter
held, and took the hammer from her solo, and struck him on the
1, sill ; he felt immediately, and beg::9 to bleed directly ; and,
when down, ow strtiek him two or three times, and " halt I" in
lily sight Tae7, I moved a little nearer, and looked at him, and
sax the blood fLyaring troin him. I said, now. 7,lary, I am hang
at well yon. She did not speak to me afterwatdt. I left her
NV:t4 tho de, eased, anal walked away, right across the gels),
manic flay V.•tv home as weil as I cold-1 think about 11 o'clot4k ;
my wile was fast a sleep in bed: and I undressed died got into bed.
Nhout 3 We; wk. in the sitortiiir4-. .Mary Chiforsl • came up to our
door, a. d asked,--" Are yoU at 110,W . I eats ? " I Uot up and
the do•Ir ; ;icing stark naked, I 2' t o be directly. She
did !lot trete into the r:ottn, nor speak one word, hut, 1 suspeet,
'.r%s hammer „test within the door, as I left it on Saturday night
east box, which is on the other side ot the room ; she
weal :ow,. stairs agt.in witnont speaking one word. I thought she
st onld le:ve come iw. When 1 got up, I tound the 11,11111nel* just liv
door, which Made Me suspect site had put it there. At half-
pas! ti . e T ue..rt to moll, and to,:k this hammer with me, and a
pair of bees I had in the-hou-e ; I took them with me into the
toed when I Milt to work. 1 came home to breakfast at eight
Welts: k, when my wire said Mary Cliff,,rd hail been there, enquir-
ing at'ier her husband. I wcut to work again ; and, retnitintg at
twelve o'clock to (honer, I met my wife at the cud of New -court
anal she said, " Oit, Jon ! Ned was murdered (or
kil (.0 hit night," 1 don't know • which ; I think she said she
Loned 1 hal no howl in it : 1 said, " well, if he is, it can't be
!wiped." Atter dinner, 1 went again to wink, till about three
o'clock, when the officers took me away. The great coat I had on,
when the murder was committed, my wife bought of Dennis Mar-
tin ; it Was loot pill fir; these might be some blood on it, for
aught 1 know, as the blood spirted from him. I threw the great ,
coat oil when I got home, and have not JVCII it since that time, ex-
ecpt at the Office in Hatton-garden.
(Signed) JAM ES LEA R Y.
• The prisoner. Leary being put to the bar, the first witness exa-
mined was
Marshall, a youth of genteel appearance ; he stated,
that on the mutating of the murder, at about ‘..N) miuntes after 4
O'clock, he pas,ed near to the sput where he since learnt it laid
been purpetrated ; he observed a woman walking slowly up and
down ; tic was not more than 1-2 yards front her ; thought he would
kin>w her, where he to sce her agzin.
Witness was then &sited to attend an officer, who took him to
Mrs. Clifford.
Witness returned.—" 1 have seen Mrs. Clifford ; she was not
the piTson i nwt. The ‘vonual 1 met or saw walkiug up and down,
was drts•:ed in a blue gown, and a black cap or bonnet ; when I
first saw her, she tvas not 1110 re than yards from where the min-
der was committed."
)Vitae-s was sent to see the wife of the prisoner Leary ; on his
retorts. lt. said Mrs. Leary W as not the woman whom he met,
Win:am I:roughtme, a bricklayer, deposed to -the finding of the
body in a pot of water, aial spoke ot the wound at the back of die
deeeased's head, and of the cut over his eye-brow. lie saw some
blood about three yards from the pond, where the deecat:ed was
t;tund ; and his Mill, Daniel Brewer, found some lnkias on the
spot. •
Daniel 11. ewer found part of the deceased's brains as before de-
Minted, bud the pound, about four yards Bum the pond, and close
to where the brains were Count, was dented in three or four places,
as if the hammer, which killed the deceased, had missed its aim
.and hit the earth. lie alto traced ;he marks of blood from where
the brains were found to the side of the pond.
Robert Shutt hew orth came up just as• the two preceding witnesses
WPM draning the body out of the pond. He examined the pockets
ot the deceased, and timid only three-halfpence. Ile saw the
marks in the earth made near to where they supposethe nail-der was
committed ; also the brains and Wood lying. He thinks the dews
made in the earth must have :teen by a hammer..
Three hammers were produced, and Shuttleworth, and the
other two t, ithesses, pointed oul the one they thought most likely
to have made the marks in tie earth. It was the smallest hammer,
and the only one that had the marks of blood on
Mr. Stephen, the surceon, was next ealted. He profes;ionally
described the two wounds., but was of opittian, that thew were ins
llteted 'uy a heavy instruntent, an+l with the corner of it. Being
fliewii the three hammers, hit was 01 opinion that the largest was
the most likely of the three to have been employed.
Hurlston the niasti.r lot I. ary, attetltd, and ,the

largest hammer of the three was his ; it hod been in his service, and
uu d ever since the mustier ; lie did not miss it from Lisa yard.
This hammer Leary, the prisoner, says, is the one with which
Mrs. Clitford committed the murder, inul that he brought it home
from his mater's yard uu the Saturday night, and took it back ou
Monday morning. .
shoemaker's hammer was produced, and is the same that
was found tinder the coals, in Lrary's room ; the third hammer is
mite!' :nnaller of the three, and the may one with Wood on it, and
the one the brieklayers speke of as most likely to have matte tire
holes in the earth.
At this period of the business the worthy Magistrate, Mr. Tinto
TON, adjourned the proceedings until next Week.
Mr. BOURKE, a respectable wine merchant. who bad been pre-
sent (krill!! the greater pint of the proceedings, came forward and
ititin-med Mr. TURTON, that lie was deputed by a party of °emit..
men to intrm him, that they had out red into a subscription Yoe
the widow of Chiliad, :eat at inusent it amounted to nearly 5'1.;
that the persons whom he represented woe e:t.ceedingly anxious
that this sum should lie properly applied ; and for that purpose he
had called on the Magisti atesfor their advice.
Mr. TUILTON politely informed Mr. IlounKE, that this horrid
transaction was yet involved in great mystery, and begged him for
the present to withhold his assistance, and that he (Mr. Teuvits)
would undertake to see the widow anti children taken proper care
of, though, for certain tea•on,, he believed he mast be under
the necessity of placing Mrs. Clifford trader the eye of those on
whom he eoull depend.
Mrs. Clifford tl.en called in, and Mr. Turton in the most
humane and delicate manner possible, hotted to her his wish that
she would consent to Ware herself tinder the . care of Mr. Adkins,
the Governor of Co:II-Bath Prison, until this singular affair was
farther proceeded in, und that Mr. Adkins, who was present,
would promise her every attention ; that her chilnien and ft iendir
should hate flee access to her, and that Mr. %Vei). the sur-'-ton
of
the prison, who was also present. had offered to attend bet during
her tyro in, which could not be many days distant. To this Mrs.
Clittord consented with some reluctance, stating that a lady in Bed-
toid square had proeurt ti for her it lodging in Fitzroy-market. Mr.
Tomei übseeved, that he hoped the time would soon arrive. wne43
both she and her children would receive the assistance of slich kind-
:warted and eh:aril:dile. Christians as the lady in question ; hut fur
the present he hop, it she -,,tti.ltt comply with his request. Mrs.
.Cliltord then %tent away a coach with the Governor of Cold-
butlt-th Ids Prison.
The ettlee in flatton•garden was nearly half filled with ladle))
dui nig the whole day.

FARTILEILPARTICULAItt TILE ABOVE MURDER.
Mari tt,t widow, or reputed widow, ut P.:award Clitiord,
who wit. so hatharously murdered, is how in tsie, 1-Lovse-or Coney.
I 1011. The eolitc.,,ithi of Leary hex not•tre ge4 licen read In her.,
but it Was jast nintcd to bei t'a a t eoute te‘ed. the deed, out charged
her Leant; cutlet.' heti with thin, %%high se-tmi 41 In niuke no nn.
IT•Sit:11 1111 *IV ,t CMS 11044 with het' rernovu.there, nu
coriditior of haying liberty of ireing tier chi-Mien frequently. No.
:thing in her cowling. as yet has appeared to lead to.a IV I)icion of
leer Iler children were removed on f 1.41111 Mrs.
Juke's, in Market stteet. Fitiony..qisare, to Panera% Wotklion,e.
appi ars that 1 vat etuiti--stou iv cot rect., us that a peropii
or the wane of IV,ir. •!I..ttery ..ecouipatoed Mr,. Clitiord to her
house, or room, in :•,.%%-eotirt,, n the :•:.uatiay, a7tl that she and her
hit.band stowe !Haim di•toite; t,at she .hateheei Ili% iat tioat
him, and that he tuft!' %volt uhd tu,uulit atm li r Witt the
dere:vied and !wary %%ere di-1111.10R at I lie iwu'r of one
(ii itii!iy ill
Cinorch-,treet. St. till,• on smolay emt,
it appears, that Mrs. Clithn d it tnttped to her
Clatiretelai.e ViCb n't•il 1111 6.111 !..); mon ; tont slie re-
maitied tit lonic t%% or rhree Slatter
titmed, heing a lodger of Clirford*., slept in i.e. saurt, Nil',
talking to her she came in, and sl.e iiiquirt.ti of aiio it bur hits-
hand wai come home? tie saw tier uo In licd, at. , ,t. a couple of.
hums asst r he saw her get up, as Weir was a candle in the
room; *hot he tlitit tell ;:,..ice p, atAl did not see or he..i her ,go out.
Ile attended at the C3root inque.t, out then In:4 c%itl: tial
nut ,ettli fleet ssAry.. Leary'. hr-t e4.ldoo,tuai ill'lolC Vt. .11-41Stf4lit'S
lit liiliillll-2ardCll, flit Isni eXiillll{l.llll/11, eutis tßiens fultu ihe 14N1 ;
he then laid he drat_' ao:a.110.1 the ‘‘ite of the
'heard her make so tierimis 401401 e agaits-t low., but ~tatetl., Itha ite
parted ((OM the ileees.eil a..1l lily the eud flt ley pi"( ; tuAt
tiny met two !ben', tin %%Tilt oil umpahk, %%itti Cl,lJtail
allatl 11•14 wide, ULM Ufa lie (Liar;) et:turned ltuti.l. It api,“.l3

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