The National Register.
London, England, 1815-07-30 00:00:00

BURY ASSIZIN.

Elizabeth Woßerton, of Ilungow, was indicted for the murder of
Opaskes, six years of age. by infusing a quaetity of arsenic
tom cake, of which he ate. The prisoner was the wite old farmer.
and the mother of eight children, Mr. Clarke, of lneham was her
uncle, and had, a considerable time since, advanced her a loan of
2001 informing her, at the same time, that he had bequeathed I:er
in hiss will WI. For this generosity she soon after commenced a
system of favonra, and frequently made •a nnmber of cakes, which
she forwarded to her uncle, as presents, for his family's use. Some
of these, however. not agreeing with his stomach, and many of them
turning him sick, he at length requested the prisoner to refrain
trom making such cakes. It appeared, however, that she had bet•u
long in the habit of purchasing arsenic at the honse of• Mr. Long,
apothecary at Betneay, lead gone there for the same purpose on the
23i1 of June last, mud bought more than her usual quantity. Her
daughters, who were admitted as evidence against her, proved that
they •ow her subsequently make a large cake, and forward it to her
uncle. Upon its• arrival to him, however, he refused to taste
from the fiormer objections he had made, notwithstanding the recom.
mentlation of its excellence which accompanied the present. The
cake, therefore, he lett at the disposal of his housekeeper,
who, not wishing to use it herself, befloonght of the family
of her son•in-law, Sparkes,• the father of the deceased, and
sent it to him. Upon the receipt of, the cake, Mrs.
Sparkea, 'who had five children, divided it amongst them.- -
The deceased, her youngest child. had eaten a considerable portion
before the others had tasted it ; and scarcely had the others began
to use their part, when the deceased complained of dreadf►l tor-
tures in his stomach, and, after experiencing violent agony, expired
in a few hours. The others, warned by the first alarm, desisted
from eating. but *it till they experienced violent sickness. Medi-
cal aid, however, being called in. they were tecovered. The sum.
gems who opened the body of the decra•ed proved, that the cake
contained amnia sufficient to occasion almost instant death.

The prisoner, in her defence, persisted in her innocence, and at
one time ic tempted to attach the crime to her daughter, an interest-
ing girl, of fourteen years of age.
Chief Justice Gibbs summoned up the evidence, and the Jnry
found her Guilty.—Sentence of death was immediately pronouneed
upon her, stud •n Monday she was emiveyed from liceeles gaol to
Ipswich, where she was executed amid thousausls nfspectators. On
her way from the gaol to the place of execution she evinced a fitm-
nevi borderiug ou carelessness, and to the lit moment asserted her
innocence.

LORI) COCHRAYE.
SVRRY ASSIZES, CROYDON, THURSDAY. JULY 17.

The Assi7es began Mere to day, but nothing of the least interest
took place, except that tie Grand Jury found another Bill against
Lord Cochrane, for breach of prison. To the bill last found he
pleaded in abatement that he was Sir Thomas Cochrane, Knt. and
not Thomas Cochrane, Esq. ; in fact, altliongli he was expelled tits
Order of the Bath, vet he remained a Knight Baronet. Vise last
BM was therefore spid.slied, and .t new one presented to the Grand
Jury.

John Rllem. 11'110 was convicted at Chelmsford Assizes of a rope,
and left for execution, has received a respite during the Royal plea:
sure.
HORRID MI RDER.—A an of the name of Kilreavy, a prosecu-
tor at the Longford Assizes, who had been. on the evening of Mon-
day, the 10th inst. sent to Lord Forbes's for greater security, was,
on his way into the town on Tuesday, carried ofi by some persous
unknown, and not appeal ins as expected, the II ial in which he was
concerned was put off. On Friday last be wa- !Mond murdered in a
most shocking manner on the lands of Aughamore, his head bat-
tered with a spade or some such instrument, and 17 bayonet woond4
in differno parts of Ins bud,y,--I::enistilien Chronicle,