The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-22 00:00:00

OLD 13JILE1", Sum 20.

Eleanor Skee Was• tried on an indi3ment for, felo-
-11164.4 forging and Counterfeiting,' and uttering the
same,' knoWing it to be so forged and connterfeited,.
'a-certain' paper writing, purporting to be the last
will'and testament of William Cooper, formerly a
Seaman ont board, the Beliswius,, of Livei pool; and
With was drowned in the 'year 1-7)9, in his voyage
.to Hambtirgh ; with intent to detrand'H. Cooper,
of Kirkwall, in the Orkneys.
This trial occupied a considerable tiMe,- but was
not of very material interest. The circumstances;
according to evidence, were, that the deceased, when
on shore in LoildbnibetWeeit his successive voyages;
had lodged and boarded ax the house of the Prisoner,
near Shadwell ; that they lived 'together like man
and wife, and that immediately previous•to his last
voyage be offered to marry the Prisoner; but that
she declined it until he should return. That during
his absence at sea she Usually managed his afThirs,
received the rent of some houses that belonged to
him ' • and when he'was on shore, ,he generally ap-
plied for money to her when he wanted any, as if
she'had been his wife. A Will was prOdiked, which,
on the part of the prosecution, was alledged to have
been forged. It purported to have been drawn by
an'Attorney named Coombe, and Witnessed by him
and his Clerk, as executed in their presence ; and it
bequeathed to the Prisoner all the property of the
deceased, revoking, as usual, all other Wilis.

Two female servants proved the foregoing circum-
stances ; said; they frequently saw the deceased give
to the Prisoner letters and other written papers, but.
Could not swear that any one of those was a will ;
but both agreed in stating that they frequently, heard
the deceaseddeclare the klisoner should have all his
property at his death, if it were a thousand times
more' than he then possessed.
H. Cooper, the person. against. whom the indi&-
ment alledged the fraud to haVe been intended, could
not prove himself to be heir at law to the deceased,
but merely that he was ereldtion of his.
Sir SIMON LE PLAN c, therefore, told the Jury,
that they must acquit the Prisoner, as this principal
alledgment was not proved.— Verdiß-7Not Guilty.
Hannah Conolly was .capitally indided for the.
murder of her bastard child, at the public-house
called the Jolly Weavers, in Brick-lane, in the pa-
rish of St. Luke, on Sunday the 13th, of July last ;
and also on another count, for concealing_ her bas-
tard child, which, .under Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S
Ad, incurs the penalty of two years' imprisonment.
It, was proved, on the testimony of three wit-
nesses, Anne Gibbon, Ilebecca Horne, and Mary
Rochell, that the Prisoner was delivered of a
female_ child on the day stated in the indidment ;
that Shk: was some time before suspe&ed of being.
pregnant, but denied the fad; that on the night
of
.that day the first witness went into her room,
and saw her lying .on her bed, asleep, and appa-
rently' intoxicated with spirituous liquor : and that,
from several circumstances, she perceived that
she had been delivered of a child. She waked
her, and asked her what had become of the

child ? but the Prisoner, at first, seemed con-
fused, and denied that she had had any child.
Two of the witnesses then insisted on her get-
ting up to have her bed made, which she re-
fused. They then lifted her into a chair, and on
taking off the bed-clothes to make the bed, they
found the_dead body of a female child, wrapped up
in a coarse cloth, concealed under that part of the
bed where her head lay. They discovered upon it
no .markiof violence : there was a tub, about two
feet-deep, half full of water, by the bedside, which
water was rather discoloured ; and one of the wit-
nesses, who was a Midwife, could not say whether
the child had been born alive or dead. They asked
the Prisoner,.how, she carrie to deny the child 2 and
she answered, that as she had been a .widow for four
years, and had had the child.by a married man, she
was ashamed to expose herself, and refused telling
his name for fear of creating disturbance in his fa-
mily.
Mr. Evans, a Surgeon in the neighbourhood, was
sent-for, about one in the morning : he examined
the child, and fOund that the
.lungs had been in-
flated, but could not take upon him to swear po-
sitively on so nice a point as whether the child was
aaually living or dead when born, as it was a mat-
ter which the Most eminent of the Faculty had not
been able to decide in similar cases.

Baron Sui-ros recapitulated the evidence to 'the
Jury with remarkable perspicuity, and was of opj-
Mon; ,that the 16t of the child's being aaually Jiv-
ing 'when born had not peen proved, and therefbre
that a yerdid of murder could not be justified.: the
fa& of concealment, then, was ail that remained for
their consideration. The • Jury, acquitted the Pri-
soner of the capital charge, and found her guilty of
the concealment only.
Sarah Hayimrd, a woman of the town, was.ca-
,pitally indided.for stealing, in a dwellipg-house, a
silver watch, value above 40s. from the person of
George Rich, his property.
The Prosecutor said, that he met the Prisoner
upon. Westminster-bridge on the night .of ,the t
of August. She asked him .for a glass of ale, with
which he treated her • and they afterwards. re-
paired to a .house in SVhitcombe-street, where the
Prosecutor laid his watch upon a. table, which the
Prisoner twnsferred to her pocket. The Proscutor
never missed his watch until it was too late, and the
Prisoner completely out of. reach ; however,. having
given information of kis loss at the Police-Office;
Hayward was
,taken five nights afterwards, with the
watch in her possession. .
The Prisoner, in her defence, said the Prosecutor
gave her.the watch in lieu of money
Sir StmON LE BLANC observed to the Jury, that
the capital charge was done away, as the property
was not under the protthion of the dwelling-house,
but of the Prosecutor's person.; the larceny, how-
ever, seethed.proved beyond all qUestion. verdict
Guilty of stolling generally.

On• Wednesday week, as two- men were working
in a quarry at Crooks, near Sheffield, a large mass of
stone, which they had looSened, fell down, and
killed one of them, named ,Abraham Bradshaw, on
the spot. He has left a wife and four children, one
of whom is blind. The other, who was dreadfully
bruised, was carried to the Infirmary, and is in a fair
way of recovery.

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