The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-15 00:00:00

Cross-examined by the prisoner—When you say

abused Celia, I was out of doors—now, on your oath, do
you not know that there was another woman at the next
door, whom I might have threatened, and not Cicely?
Witness—You were blowing Cicely up, and I believe you
meant her.

Prisoner—l don't contradict you, but do you reali
mean that ? Witness—Yes.

The prisoner here turned up his eyes to heaven, and be
pyed some emotion.
Frances Hawkins—l lived next door toSymmonds.

knew Celia Holloway, and once saw Ann Kennet.

It was

on the 4th of July. That evening I heard Holloway
quarrel with Celia, and say, " You d—d you shall
suffer for this." Symmonds was going to put him out of
doors. Ile went out and said, " Good night, Cely," an
she said, " Good night, John." I said, "If I was you,
Celia, I would not say good night to him. He said,
you don't know as much about me as a great many, or
you would mind your P.'s and Q's."
Mary M trchant—l lived at No. 10, Donkey-row. On
the 14th of July I saw the prisoner looking out of the
chamber window of No. 11. He told me his name was
John Gold,rnith. At a little after one o'clock (dinner
time), on the 14th of July, I saw Kennet come out of
No. 11. She left him looking out of the window. He said,
" Ann, shall you say ?" She replied, " I don't know."
She was very white-looking in the face. I went out ten
minutes before two o'clock, and left my son James at
home. A hole and crack are in the wall between the
chambers of No. 10 and 11, Donkey-row. A half-brick
is out, and there is a long crack. At nine at night
I heard two voices, a female's and a man's. They were
on the same floor as the hole. I heard a short cough. It
was a woman's. The coughing lasted an hour at dif-
fer.nt times. Whilst I was at supper on the Saturday
following (16th of July) I saw Holloway bring up a'
long wheelbarrow at six in the trifling. He put it in

the kitchen of No. 11, and locked the door and went
away. I asked him if he was going to leave us already,
and he said he did not know altogether about that. Ile
was in expectation of a situation, and if he got it, he
should not stay there. On the same night, a quarter be-
fore ten, lie had the barrow up in his hands with an old
paper trunk on it. [The pieces in Court are like.] A
feistale locked the door after him, and went to the head of

the barrow. She was t and thin, and like the woman
I had seen before. Holloway went with the harrow in
the direction of Preston. No. I I was the only hou•c
that had a shutter ; it was never open.
During a temporary abseils* of the Judge, the pri-
soner turned-round to the audience and exclaimed—" Ne-
ver mind comrades, I won't hetray you."
D. Folkard, the high constable of Brighton—On the
2d of September I went to Horsham, where Holloway
was confined. I went into the infirmary of the gaol.
Holloway (mine to me, and asked if Kennet was committed
for trial, I said, " Yes, she was committed to Lewes
gaol." He asked me if she hail confessed any thing. I
went again on the 3d of September, with Sir David Scott
and William Seymour, Esq., Mr. Tredcroft, and Mr.
Wetherhy, the Chaplain, accompanied me. I went into
the infirmary, Holloway came to me. Sir David Scott
told bins that he attended there at his request, that he need
not say any thing if he did not please, for what he did say
would be liable to be revealed. Kennet was present.
Holloway's statement was reduced in writing. Kennet
heard all that he said. I made memoranda of her obser-
vations. (Here the witness read his memoranda.) She
denied having pledged any thing but the shawl, and ob-
served that she did not go up Margaret-street with the
barrow. She reviled him, and said she was innocent.

Cross-examined—She called him a false villain, but de-
nied nothing but what I have referred to. She said she
was innocent, and had nothing to reveal.
Ann Lever—l reside at No. 7, Margaret-street. The
prisoners at the bar lodged in the house up to Friday fol-
lowing the Saturday I lent them the barrow. It was re-
turned o❑ Saturday. Ann Kennet had said that they bad
been smuggling, and I ob,erved that the barrow was all over
light clay, And seemed to have been over hills and dales. 1
heard Ann Kennet once say to Holloway, " You have been
with her again, you had better go for good and all." Who
" her" meant, I did not know.
Cross-examined—'The two prisoners lived at my house
three months, as man and wife. Ann Kennet was very
sociable and comfortable except as to the quarrels with
Holloway.

Cross-examined by the prisoner—Mrs. Lever, have you
not known me quarrel with Ann Kennet? Witness—
Yes, indeed I have.

The prisoner (with some emotion)—Did you ever know
her to return an angry word. Was she not always mild
and submissive. Did she not always sit down as if broken-
hearted. Oh, have I not abused her shamefully, and did
she ever say any thing in reply ? Witness—She was al-
ways submissive.
Prisoner—She has been bruised dreadfully by me. Her
arms have been beat black and blue. Her hairs have been
actually torn from her by me, and for what reasen I don't
know. It was my savage nature.
The female prisoner wept bitterly.
Matilda Johnson— I saw Holloway carry a bag from
Margaret-street. I had seen him carry a box in the bag
before. It was about a week before they left. Kennet
was with him when be carried the bag.
The prisoner here put a few questions in order to exone-
rate Kennet.
W. Bowen, eleven years of age, had seen the head and
legs taken out of the privy behind Lever's house, with a
ticken bag and a box. Had seen Holloway, with Kennet
a bag on his shoulder, with some-
behind him, carrying
thing in it. She had a box or a bundle. They went in
the yard. I never saw them after. The bag was a ticken
bag, like what was afterwards taken out of the privy.
There was something like blood on one corner.

Charlotte Thomas—The prisoners had lodged at my
home in High-street, Brighton. The mother of Hollo-
way once came in crying, and said, " Oh, John; oh,
John ; it's found," or, " she's found."
Cross-examined by the prisortet—Can you with a .clear

conscience say those words were the first used by my mo-
ther ? Witness—Yes, I can.
Prisoner—Did she not say, John, what have you done
—did you do it ? Witness—No.
Prisoner—As God is my judge, these are the words.
You are old enough to be my mother. God knows if I
speak the truth ; I shall stand before him in a few hours,
as you will shortly, and the truth will appear.
Robert Salvage, a butcher—On the 19th of July I was
returning from Cuckfield to Brig%ton, between nine and
ten o'clock in the evening. I saw the prison, rs cooling
from the spot where the body was buried. They got over
the stile, passed me, and went on to Brighton. lam po-
sitive it' was the prisoners. They made observations on
the bullock I was driving.
The prisoner strongly reproved the last witness for his
levity, when two human lives depended on his evidence.
here his manner to the female prisoner induced the Court
to order them to be separated. She became exceedingly
distressed.

W. Stedman produced the confession of Holloway, taken
before the Magistrates at Horsham gaol, and dated the
20th of August, 1831. The other confession, dated
September 3, was put in.
The prisoner demanded that a subsequent confession
should be put in. lie wished his letters to Sir D. Scott,
and to his mother, should be read. •

These later documents, some in his own handwriting,
were put in and proved.
The COURT said, that before the documents were read,
it was a duty to warn the Jury that the female prisoner
ought not to be affected by any thing Holloway had said.
It would be better therefore for the Jury at once to come
to a determination upon the case of Ann Kennett before
the confessions of Holloway were read.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence as it af-
fected Kennet, and the Jury acquitted the female prisoner
of the capital charge, and she was removed from the bar
into confinement to wait the filing of a new indictment.

The confessions of Holloway were the❑ read.
The first attributed his guilt to the marriage to which
he had been compelled by the parish, at the age of 19, the
woman having sworn a natural child against him. Ile
confessed to having strangled the woman, by stealing be-
hind her on the staircase under pretence of kissing her,
and mangled the body, and alleged that no other person
had been concerned in the crime.

In the second confession, dated the 3d of September,
the prisoner declared that the murder had been committed
by him in conjunction with Ann Kennet.
The prisoner persisted in having the others papers read.
The first was an attempt to exonerate the prisoner Ann
Kennet from the effects of the preceding confession, by pre-
tending that it alluded to another Ann Kennet, whom he
had forced to assist him by threats.
The prisoner was called upon for his defence.
The prisoner—My Lord, since a man named Winter,
who committed a shocking murder was pardoned, why
should Ibe hanged ? I don't wish to live. A man who
corn:nits murder ought to die, but I have the same right
to be sent out of the country that Winter had. I know
I committed the murder, but it is not plain or clear in
evidence. The woman might have made away with her-
self, and from fear I might have concealed it. I don't say
that it is the case ; but it might have been the case.
Whether Cicely was murdered or not, I don't wish to
live ; but let me say only this—Ann Kennet is innocent.
I have no witnesses to call ; I don't want witnesses to save
my life.

The Learned Judge PATTEaON summed up the evidence,
and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
After sentence was passed, he •imply ejaculated " Amen."
He is to be executed at Horsham on Friday.