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thrown down senseless. He was quite intisfled that
the blows were given Ely 'a bantam with a blunt
end sharp side, nr au instrument or t,"tt kind.
Krzisit Bell wtid *lie laved at Greenwich, and
was a wa.tHerssomou. She used to git out oceasion-

ally to do work for the late .Jr. 111;11. Mrs. Bird
died about two sear. and four months before the
murder. Mr. herd's hour of supper was rote
and he groierallv rat potatoes; ten o'clock
was Isis regular hour of going to bed, and his cur.
tom was to put on his slippers alter the cloth was
removed. She washed there on the Mutiday to-fore
the murder was conesuitteol, and had washed 18
shirt% After the murder she maw two shirts and a
white and red cotton handkerchief with the canasta.
tile, which she was sure she washed on the Monday
for Mr. Bird. Cake and Wine were generally kept
in the house on the sideboard ; he soistrtimes love
his housekeeper a glass.
Cross-examined.—Mr. Bird's general bed-time
we. about ten o'elipek ; hr was a very regular mail.
Mr. Thomas (the first witness) was here recalled
hr said that there was some fire still lighted in the
house on she Suitday ; it did out, however, appear
that any fresh coals hail been put on. This cer-
tainly appeared to him extraordinary at the time,
and when lie first ohaerveol the fire, he concluded
that meneloody was then its the home.
Mr. SMITH (ilie Nligistrate) being examined as
to the fact of this tire. said, it merely appeared to
him as the remains of embers from the preceding
night.
Hannah Cooper said, that she hit tier home, in
Woolwich, about eight o'clock, or a little earlier,
On the Satufolay evening. On passing by Mr.
Bird's door, she saw a man talking to his house-
keeiwr at the door, awl also observed Mr. Bird as
if apparently coaling f the parlour and scent-
ing (for she saw his moods moving) to speak to the
Wonilla. About a quarter past ten o'clock, as she
returned by the house, she found it shut.
John Litton said lie resided at the house called
the Greenwich Academy. His family occupied
one room. two pair of stairs up, and manlier lower
1101•11. lie was employed as a patrole at the time
the murder happened. lie knew the Poisoner for
about a twelvemonth ; when he left his master,
Mr. Steels/an, of Vaiwittart 'Terrace, he asked per-
mission to leave as box at wirnews's. which lie ac-
cordingly did about Christmas. There were two
staircases leading to witness rooms, and any body
might of course get, up to the Prisoner's box
without being observed by his faintly. There *own
door which communicated wads a passage by Smith's
house, and there were two privies, one of them
by the side near the lane where lie children stied to
play. There was at, mat ti ,gar rubbish there at the
titue the murder was said to li we been committed.
There was a casters§ close by the stair-case, which
always had plriity of waiter, and the kitcheas had a
pump. HP (W 11114.2,9 was • cooper by wide, and
kept his tools near a kitehril which was mint used.
He remembered hastaa lost as hammer shortly be-
fore the time of 11r. Bird's. murder ; it was called
a pod resetting hammer; it bail been broke a short-
ly before, and lie hail spliced it with three nails. He
had Slate seen the liao ttttt er with the Clerk of the So.
liritoi for die proiweiiten Hussey used frequently
to coin,. in an I out often to his box, which seemed
to have been only half full ; when he first left
the box it was secured merely with some thin pal k
thread, but when it was taken away it had a stronger
cord. Witness tank it to Mrs. Goddard who was a
relation of the Prosuiier's wife, said loved in Hughes's
Fields, Deptford. The Prisoner alien he loved at
Mr. SlevlSOn'il had the care of sonic horses and a
gig, and used to go to the pond, where witoiess un-
derstood the hammier was found, fur water to wash
the gig. Hassey therefore knew the spot very well.
He saw Hussey on the afternoon of the Sunday (she
day after the murder) about half-pest three o'clock,
and stopped until past five o'clock, when he set
out by the coach for his brother's at Peckham
to tea. He said he had that day dined at Mrs.
Bennett's, the washerwoman's. Witness whets lie
came in staid, " Charles, where have you been ?
you are quite groggy ?" He said lie had been the
night before at the Tiger's Head,atid had got snore
than lie was used to lwar, and that he had that day,

on his way to the Washerwoman's, met a man named
Jersey, and had with him three pints of hot (beer
nod spirits) at the Ship and Lart—he said he after-
wards dived with the washerwoman. and then could
not do less than give her something to drink. Ile
then asked what withers had to drink—but ou be-
ing offered some table beer, he refused, and sent
out for a pot of porter. Witness raw a pair of
gaiters at the Magistrate'r, which, hr thought, be-
longed to Hussey. One day before the murder
witness saw I lAzieton and the Prisoner to,gether, the
latter was pu hog on a pair of old gaiters, which,
lie said, he hail bought from the ostler at the Prince
of Oratige, fur 4s.
Cross•Pxamined.—He knew the Prisoner a long
time, and he bore 84 very good character up to the
time of this circiiinstance. The tux WS, but into
a room pointed out by witness near the family bed-
room. The box was merely secured by a cord the
whole time it remained in the housr. He never
saw any rubbish in the place near the yard. On
the Sunday the Prisoner was certainly in liquor.—
The children or any body else might have got into
the dark place where the tools were. He missed
the hammer about ten days or a fortnight before
the murder.

Maria Litton, the wife of the last witness, saw
Hussey's box when it was brought to the house; it
then contained a few clothes. Her husband carried
it afterwards for the Prisoner to Deptford. There
was very little rubbish, and no matting in the place
near the privy, certainly nut enough to cover a bun-
dle. She remembered the Sunday when the mur-
der was discovered—she believed the heard of it a
little before two. Hussey came in about four
o'clock, fur it was the time of their tra—he staid
till about five. The woollies:. of Vansittart-terr4ce
overlooked the whole et the growd where the Pri-
soner said Iw pocked no the bundle.
Cross-crmnisied.—She knew nothing about what
Hussey might -live carried backwards and Itirwatit
to his bus. When he ordered it to Deptford, he
did 1,01 ask her husband to carry it, hut rent any
one 'Hight be the bearer. Oil tht Sunday afternoon
Finney came in, lirdlll a hit ein liquor. She
knew that l►e used to wear a pair of drab-coloured
gaiters.
Wm. Litton said lie was a nephew of the former
witness, mid entered his mde's house 011 the Sun.
(lily evening, just as the Prisoner cause up to the