The Sun.
London, England, 1801-07-29 00:00:00

FRIDAYS JULY 25.

Re4ecen Reagewitt was indieted for_ the murder of •
her male bustard child,
..pti the Ist of July inst.
Sdannah Shaw, being the first . Witness called,
deposed,, . that she .was going, through the Turnpike-
gate, at Dog Fey-lane,. to take her hushai4d'sdinner,
when the prisoner asked her, if she would fetch her
two penny worth of strong- piper- (the prisoner -
kept the tool...bar) from :Klirkßdrton, to which the
Witness•assenred, ker return with the Paper,
the Prisoner tusked her if she could keep a secret ?
to which she"A:nel-iiered,:- there, were secrets .to be
kept, and secrets.riUrio be-kept. She then told
her, she had a child that she wanted burying,; and •
if the Witness would do it for her, she would give
her ios. 6d. prOided'she would inter it in: some
church. or -chapel yard,' the.Mitneis then wished
to see the child ;. the Prisoner -told her she had it in
a box, and immediately chewed it her. The child
was 'wrapped up in linen. The next night the Wit-
neis..:caine and fetched- the child, which was. sewed
up in the paper the Witness had bought, and, with
her husband,Lwent to the church yard, when -he (the
husband)-dug.a hole, and buried the child. •Crn the
Witness inquiring: of the Prisoner :how the 'child
was, born'? she told her; that, from . hard work` iu
removing some coals, she-had brought on 'a prema-
ture delivery;' that she-lived in a house by herself,
and 'wag-brought to bed at twelve at Might, and that
it was not alive ten minutes.

William Jackson deposed, that on the night of
the 24 of July, about eleven, be saw the Witness
Susannah Shaw, and her husband, walking towards
the church yard ; that lie went round another way,
and saw them bury something ;..upon which he went
to the house where he lodged, but they were gone
to bed. The next morning, he searched, and found
the child.

John Scholes, Surgeon,- deposedl that he was sent
or to examine-the child; that:there was a contu-
sion,en., the' fore. and back part of the head,- and a
great. neglett in the treatment of the child, imme-
diately after delivery ; 'l,vhichnnight :occasion it to
bleed to death ; - that there were other circumstances
attending
_the birth of the child -(as 'the woman vilat
delivered-at that:. time 'of night without assistance-1
which might occasion the aforesaid fradures or con-
tusions..
Several respeaable Witnesses swore to the huma-
nityand good conduit of the Prisoner. • ,
The Judge,. after summing. up the evidende,..re,
marked, that there • were many cittumstancei in
favour- of the Prisoner. In the first place, she lived
house.. by .herself; was delivered at a time of
night which rendered it inipossible to. get; .any
sistance that hadshe caused kii; death.of the child,.
she never would have given it to another person, a

IRISH STATE LOTTERY,

SJXT•H DAY.

No Prize above 81.

iW4RRIED.

Yesterday, at St. Mary's, Lainbeth, John Grammar, Esq.
of Storey's-gate, Westminster, to Miss Editha 11,14C6mb,
daughter of John M•Comb, Esq. of Walcst-p4ce, Lam-
beth. . ,

On the 23cl inst. at Dirttind, 'Mrs. Petret, in the 36th
year of her age.
On the loth inst. at Turnharn-green, Mr. john Lane, of
Old Bond-street. .

On the igth inst. Master Charles• Sheppard, son of Tho-
mas. Sheppard, Esq. Thornton-NCI; Bocklogllarnshirp.
Yesterday morning, ::t his apar6nents in the Atimiral4.,
Mr. Thomas Sandford. •

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3 per Cent. Con. 5'414 ;I.
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Ditto SifOrt Ann. 5-1-16 f. -
Ditto Scrip ,

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