The Sun.
London, England, 1813-09-18 00:00:00

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•Mary was then Cress.txrunined.---4 Wasrtsti•angikr in London ; I was four days with Mrs,
Leary; 1 had never seen Leary.or his wile,bcture;
I %Val
away 'o.botit four'tveeks before Leary came
to see ti:s ; lie lived, 1 believe, at Fleet-gene, near
Veet4market. Ile had never called on us Wore;
I never .had mentioned ttl him that Cli!tord had
money nothing passed about mimey till they
cAme. On Sunchiy evening ; the woman was drunk,'
the multi sot.yer,;;we draul; A giilltka ($F beer
together, alter being with Mrs.Leao,fold
met.Slattery, \\limn I knew a long time before't,
Slattery did oot know what money We had ; it ut:-
ver was communicated to,hini. I was in Loriduo.
when I MIS a child 3, I lived with mydrotber'
in. .Parkor'.:-.laity. I do" not !stow hi 7v long.
I •liked in hondon. ram thirty-three be
u for years.of age. am •mairied twenty 'years, I
lived in Lomluo a year or two. I did not know
Iloi-
born ; I suppose 1 era; a girl big 'enough -to run
about the street ; I.tvas at least eight ()I.' nine years
of a:e ; used to go about' of errands :my bro=
•ther lives t;le,ie yet ; I did not go to my brothvr,
because it was early in the morning when I came
to totem : I event to rov brother the next day :
proposed to get another lodgiog forme. It is the
truth that, I got my money by sale of my house,
and that Clifford got his, by hind labour ; 1 sold
a little houSe and some hind, near Cahn', in lip,.
perary ; i had sold it sonic time before I cabal.
to.Eagland : it was sold for thirty, pounds : I
paid fifteen pounds for thy debts ; Iwtis paid in
Irish notes : the notei I gave to Mr. Lawrence
were English ; I got the Irish nines e:;ehaliged
,for English at Cork Clifford knew that I had
the money sewed tip in my pettiCoat : I di) nut
think that I said to the Magistrate, that Clifforc.4
money was the produce of the house and a horse
he sold for nine pounds : I sold the horse.: I do
not know how often I had been examined before
said that Clifford was not my. husban:! : I do
not kuow that it was in consequence of being
told that it hail been discovered by persons Who
had ‘vrit:ren. to Ireland.; we had no words at any
time : I did not give the money to 'Ali'. Lawrence:
tilketler ILV 1111110!Vr ; he keeps a chandler's shop
opposite where I lived; 1 told hint nothing when-
I gave him the money; IL: first" time I was he
tore the ,Justice, .I told him I had a trifle, but did
not say where it was, or how much,
Charles Cooke, a police officer, said, -he went
to Leary's room broke Open the door : while
he was searching a box, Thisticton piekqd op a-
hammer from under.some coals. .Thistleton and
he went to_the place where Leary worked ; Leary
wits coming with a hod on hia shoulder ; -witnes
said to .Thistleton, that is Leary ; he asked Leary
where was his.master ? Leary answered, " It is
not my master you want, it is me ;" witness said
"it was, and apprehended him: l'he witness
thOught the cut in the hat was made by sonic in-
strument like the hammer. On cross-examina-
tion, lie said, Leary was searched, and .nothing
found upon him but I piece ; nor teas any
mono/ found imhis room.

William Thistleton, a police officer, corrobo•
I ;get{ the statement of the last witness. He also
deposed,that ,While going to the office, Leary said,
I have heard of this pock man who has been
Viritness- asked how. he knew he was
killed ? he said, " never mind how I have heard,"
The hammel he finincl atLeary's was a shoe.
maker's hajmner, mit. such as are used by brick-
layets : it naci a white mark upon it. After Leary
was put in :the strong room,. he wished to see a
person of the name of M'Carthv ; witness
,told
M'Carthy, he'saw no objection, if they would speak
in English ; i‘l'Carthy went in : Leary said, what
do you think of this job of mine ? M'Carthy
replied, I think it 'a very bad cast, I think
the evidence brought against you will hang
you;" and pressed him to acknowledge his guilt.
Leary said, if he could get a. person to prove
that he was at home at tewo'Clock, it would • -t all
right ; M'Carthy said, "'soppose you could do
that, where were you between the time you part
ed with Mrs. Clifford and ten o'clock ?" Leary
replied, " there, is.whete 1 shall fail." M'Carthy
said, he thought there was nothing would gout hint
through it. Leary.said, " nothing but one
;and that is- to fix it, upon siimehotiv elst."—
M'Carthy replied, " if th'at.is what you want
me for, I will leave you to your fate, and you will
be tong like a dog, and not one of your country.
men shall come forward for you to,give one shil-
ling." On cross-examination, he he was in
the passage while the conversation, was ping on.
There was a gritting over the door, and a conver-
sation in the' common tone of voice might be
hon.(' in the passage.
Thomas M'Carthy, a Shoemaker, said, that
he knew the prisoner almost from the time of his
birth ; he deposed as. to the conver:iation which he
had had with Leary in the strong Nom at the po.
lice office, and which was substantially the same,
as that given by the preceding witness, On part-
ing with him, Leary said,
i" I know I shall be
hanged ; and, when hanged, , may Igo•to 117-41 if.
I have had any more to do with ,the
oer thaw you did not, ask the wit-
ness to procure a person to swear that he was
iu lied at 10 o'clock. lie only said, if sotnebiAy
could not be fottnd to prove that, list was lost.
Joseph Becket, turnkey at .the House of' Cor-
reetiou, deposed, that on the Ist of August Leary
said to hint he would tell him mho truth ; that be
did not commit the murder, but was present';
that Mrs. Clifford did it ; he did not know whether
there wits, any', blood on his. clothes ; Clifford
spouted blood. Witness asked hits on Monday
and Tuesday as to a knife; he denied any
,know-
It'dge of it ; but on Wc.dnesday he sand he had an
out knife at home, and described it—it agreed
with the knife found : Leary always denied having
any thing to do-with the murder. . r
D. nekton, for whom the prisoner had worked,
gave hint a good chariteter.
Hymn Barnett swore that Clifford ca
himself to purchase the hat, and was thetrwit came by
con t, Ts ,Ind got Chtlilp of
a hat ; he paid four su-n
a note. As he was receiving,the change 4 the
clime hi. The woman laid hold of the hat,
awl Clifford ran away from her.. She had asked
him tO give her the chatige, but he refused. They
hod the appearance of loivingouarrelled:
11. Siolsjejork deposes!, that the Cliffords lodged
with her, but gave uo material evidence, execpt