The National Register.
London, England, 1808-09-11 00:00:00

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ceased was no more, hejumpela and exclaimed" Good God !"
During the illness of the deceased, no medical man was sent for.
but she recollected hearing the prisoner ask her if he should
send for a Doctor; to which she replied, he can do me no good.
When the deceased was vomitting, she exclaimed to the witness,
" 0 Betty. what bare I got on my stomach ? I wish I had taken
an emetic long since."
The Rev. Mr. Viss, the minister of the parish, said he had
known the prisoner some years. On. the death of the deceased,
some very shocking reports were circulated in Liverpeol against
the prisoner; in consequence of which he thought it his duty to
call upon him to inform him of them, that he might refute them,
or bring the business to an investigation. The prisoner denied
that the deceased had been delivered of a child; he said it was
impossible for if she had he must have known it; and as to its
being by him, he assigned rather an extraordinary reason, viz.
that he had the most tender and affectionate regard for her, and
as to her being poisoned, that was impossible; forshe had taken
nothing hut what he bad given her, and he was, or ought to be,
a judge of the composition and decomposition of medicine. The
strongest thing he had given her, be said, was castor oil : he
had given her a black emetic also. - The term black emetic he
explained, by saying the discharge was black. The witness
had more conversation with the prisoner, during which he gave
some inconsistent and contradictory accounts of the transaction,
particularly denying being out of his house when the witness
saw him at the Atheneum, and conversed with him. This was
investigated, in consequence of its being insinuated that be con-
veyed the child away at that time. The prisoner told him the
deceased died the day previous (Saturday), and she died on the
Friday.
Jeremiah Steed deposed, that, about last Christmas, he was in
crinpany with the prisoner, at the house of Dr. Trail, to sup-
per, w hen the subject of anatomy was brought up ; some draw-
ings of females, &c. were introduced, when the prisoner said he.
*as skilled in anatomy and physic, and instructed some young
men in it, particularly in the dissection of the womb, and by
touching a certain µart of it, would cause abortion ; he had told
a young man of it, and he bad evade an improper use of it.
The Prisoner read a very long defence, in which lie strongly
protested leis innocence, and attributed the prosecution to the re-
venge and malice of two women in Liverpool.
Several women were called on behalf of the prisoner, who
were intimately acquainted with the deceased, to prove that she
was of a sickly habit of body, and that her increased size was
dropsically, and that it was a family complaint, her mother
having died of it. One of them lived as servant with the pri-
soner. On her cross examination, said, that on it being propo-
sed to tend for a doctor to the deceased, the prisoner smiled and
said, medicines would not do her any good." The deceased
frequently breakfasted in the prisoner's bed-room with him, and
the deceased used to take the tea-things from her at the door.
She thought the prisoner often took improperliberties with the
deceased ; so much so, that one day she asked her if she was not
going to marry the prisoner.
Doctor Cason said that he had seen the stomach and uterus
some days after the body was opened, in the possession of Mr.
Hay, and gave a very learned definition of the disorders of the
stomach, and the opinions of John Hunter, and other celebrated
writers on that subject ; and he was of opinion th it the dis-
ordered state of the stomach took place after death, and the en-
larged state of the uterus might be attributed to other causes be-
sides the supposed expulsion. Upon his cross-examination, he
said he was not an accoucher, and had not delivered any women.
The trial lasted till past three in the morning, and the Jury
acquitted Cie Prisoner.
RIOTERS.
SEPT. 5.---John Shepherd, John Rhodes, Joseph Sutcliffe,
and John Turner, were indicted for having, with divers persons
tn;kno wn, riotously assembled at Rochdale, and burnt-the prison
on the Ist day of June.
John Kershaw, an inhabitant of Rochdale, deposed, that at
noon, on the Ist day of June, the town was extremely agitated
by the entrance of a most alarming mob, to the number of about
two hundred, which increased in the course of the day to about
one thousand. Soon after they entered the toss!), ore of them
mounted on a large stone, and harangued the mob ; he valid not
hear what he said, but it appearei to please the mob in arneral,
as they shouted and huzzaed several times. Dr. Drake a d Mr.
Entw isle, the Magistrates, who la general conducted the busi-
ness of that part of the country, and who I*zside near there, came
into the town, and addressed the mob in the most mild ani per-

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