The Sun.
London, England, 1815-09-18 00:00:00

C3RONEIt'S INQUEST.

Saturday morning an' Inquest was held at the
White Hart, facing Kennin;_,ton-Cross, before
Charles Jetionett, Esq. Coroner fur Surrey, Dta
the. body of Miss Elizabeth Ann Newman, Whose
death was, occasioned by •giving her arsenic in
some gruel for t•ttpper. --The „Jury was composed
-of the most respetable inhabitants in the neigh-
bourhood. After viewing the body,.ths first %%It,-
ntss'exaniine'd was
Eadm ivlro. being sworn, said, I am ser-
vant to Mr. Richard Newman; butcher, No. 8,
Kenningpm-Cross; I have lived in, the family
three yea Es. bast IVednesday evening, the 13th
i ant,r - abnut six o'clock, I accompanied my
mistress and her two clijldten, Elitabeth Ann,
the eldest (now dead), and Mary, the youngest,
to take a' walk we returned home about half
past seven o'clock I took the youngest babe,
Mary,• and undressed and gave her to my
mistress, who carried her Into her bed=room iu
her arms, and at cup of gruel 'in her hand, that
my fellow-servant, Elizabeth Miller, made for
the children's supper. My mistress ordered me
to 'get souk: nnigoesia ;And rhubarb to give her ; I
accordingly went to .the cupboard in the parlour,
I took a tea-spoon tall of the magnesia out of
a bltle' paper, and put it in a wine glass, and
then took a hoop of rhubarb out of the same
ct ehpboard,, .and grated part of it into are wine
glass witlr the inagoesia, and I . then carried
it intel 'the. bed-roan) to my mi,trtis. She
desired me to mix it with a► spoon-gull of the
,gruel with which .she was feeding the child Mary,
which I did out of the cup, ‘vhiCil was about half
a coffee-cup faq. .My mistress •gave the baby
Maya latge tea:spoon full of the mixture, and in
;Wont three minutes idtv;•ward, sh'e was taken very
and Nomited dreadfully. "i'lle• deceased,
zabeth &HI, came to the rontu door,- crying
must d matiner. My mistress desired
to let her its, which I did. She came in crying,
with .4
cup 'of-gruct in her hand, and a spoon in
it. My inistres asked her what -was the matter
with her, or had her father Wen -beating her ?
She answered No ; but desired Inc to nick her is
tier chair. I tookirerin Thylap,- mid 1 had her
not ten munites before -she began vomiting most
dreadfully. I said to my mistress, "'stile there
can he nothing in the gruel." My mistress an-
swered, " I hope not,' Mar-y.", • the chil-
dren kept.vomiting-constantly, and I "coiled my
master. in. Whendie came, he Called my fello,t.•
' servant, E'izaheth Wit:en-sloe came up,
my master asked her what she haul been (loin. to
the gruel.? She said she had clone nothing to it,
and then she began crying. My mistress then
'ordered her to bring tip .the basun . with all the
gruel in it. She went now!) and hromrht up the
()Ism) xrith a little gruel in it, and game it w my
miNtress. This was about half past SOTO or eight
• o'clock. I swallowed about two desert spoons
full;," I did not find any thing amiss with the •
taste, but sooo.after h found a hurtling heat in my
stouraen and throat.. My inaster seeiog that, said.
to her, Elizabeth Miller, now, to shew yoh
putt nothing in the gruel, and to prove your in-
nocence, take and Cat it op yourself." She stood
stiff, and did li;)t- touch it. Mr. James,Cross, a
neighbour, then came into the room, and having
seen the children, he tasted the gruel +l.lth the
point of a-knife, and he said ie made. his mouth •
very dry and hut. Mr. IVilkiuson, another neigh-
bour, canoe in, PO the children very ill,
he said td my mistress that she should; have slime
advice. My master and mistress semi lit.i-z...o)eth
Miller for ;',lr, Dixon,, the stir-gem) at Newing-
ton. Elizaberh returned first, and; Mr. .4)ixon
shortly afterwards. Mr: .I.);xoti enquired flow
:long they had been ill, and examined the stitice-

pi) the gruel was wade in, and ordered wlmt t as
left of the gruel, with the saucepan, spoon, and

some remaining gviT;i; to be locked•np, until he
had more lcisafe to examine then: minmeiy.
1). then stated his OrinioFi that :lie c.iilitren had
bt.ro pokoned, and desired that the set vant (Eli-
z.lbeth be. sent with bini to bring
back sonic castor oil, whirl, be ordered to be ad-
wittistcre(4 as speedily as possible. This' vas ac-
cordingly done, and caused increasing vonfiting.
I found myself exceedingly ill; and gave nty
mistress 0,,e child; I then went to the back door,
wherei i.otnited dreadfully, and my mistress or-
tiered me some castor "tVhielr 1 took. The

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children and 111V3Clt Cbil ti lilted ill outil•fivo o'clock
next- morning, when I remarkezl, about that time
to my mistress, that I thongs ht the.clliid Eiizubctli
Alin appeared better.; in about ii.-q;iartcr of au
hour after, the deceased asked for drink, of ttltich
I gave her, and observed she had changed coun-
tenance. I..called to Inv master trout an adioin.-
ing room; she .was their in a tit. i\ly master sent
I again -for Mr. Dixon : before Mr. Dixon came,
she had reepvered,lioin the first fit., lie gave bier
„a little white wine scat home again,
elite, which he gave to both children and myself.
Mr. Dixon staid nea r.v two hours ; after lie was
gocre, 'the child had three More lits,• and expired
'alma; nine o'clock: About eight o'clock I found
thyself svOise, much swelled, and very sick.

To. a question put by the Coroner---If she knew
of in the liotm:? she replied, About
two months, since she saw something iii LI paper
on the kitchen windOw, which one of :the young
Alien said kvas-poison, and cautione4 her not (9
touch it, as it Veils to be put with chopped beef,
upon cabbage leaves,. to be put into the slangh-
tcr-houst! to'poison rats. She did not know of
poisoß in the kitchen, or any part of the house,.
after that time. She .did not observe any thing
particular in the conduct of Elizabeth Miller to
induce her to suspect that she would or could have
given poison to them : she appeared tit times cross
to them. Shortly after, the death of Elizabeth
Anhe,.the witness went up to Miller's bed-room,
mfd found her !ocher! in t she opened the door,
tun! witness told'her the child was dead, upon
veineh she, stamped bet foot upon the floor; atilt
raved out," \Unit shall 1 do with tilYseli
Mr. Dixon; the'surgetin, corroborated the evi-
deuce, MiryEttles, and further deposed, that
when he took Miller with him home, to fetch the
ca•tor oil, he pauticularly questioned her, if She
prepared the gruel, what it was made of ?
She said, that the grits she got at Mc. 11olland's,
the Cc)rn-olia-kttacr's, and sbc thickened it with

nearq' tt table tpoonful ot-o7.linteal, whieli Oa tmtal
was part) she said, of some that was left about a
month ago; .by.one of the young men, who had
some gruel':lnadelortis fold. She denied, ally
knowledge Whatever of p0ii..9:1 being pin into.the
gruel. Mr. Dixon further stated, that he hail ana-
lyzed-the gruel in ihe'basin,,and also *hat was in
the tea-cup, in the presense of four philosophical
gentlemen, and that it -was evident it' was strongly
impregnated with arsenic. He also examined the
remaining- grits, and they appeared to be free from
limy poisonous ingredient. He further deposed,
that on opening the body of time child, he ?Icer,.
tabled she died of poison ; but that he had not
yet a tuilyZvd the contents of the stomach.
• Mrs. Newman deposed • nearly the - same evi-
dence as Mary Hades; and said it was not hear hi
tcution to keep her but a few day longer; but
she had not acquainted Miller with such intention,
that she was a head tempered girl, and appeared
cross to the children ; and the dt;teased
(not tour years old) did not like to go out .or be
with her; it was the first time .she ever made
gruel for the children.; and to a questiOrm from
Mrs. Newman why she made so much, 'she said,
y I suppoced you taught ,want some for vourself."
Last Ator.day ''sirs. Newman> scoHcal her twice for
sofiCring* the, taco- in the' shop .to take improper
liberties with her,

Fleury Wit hair-dress.er deposed, that
,about
two months since he prepaVcd some minced mew:,
mixed with it aquaiitityof arsebic„ aird , assisted by
Mr. Newman and his two jotirt.teywen, Anus and,
Allen, Stopped up the holes %yid) it in the slaugh-
ter-house and shop, nod about five' vv. eks since
he again repeated it, but is not aware that he lett
any b6hiinr bin/.

ilemy Aflt n, jout'ncynian'to Air. 'Newman, de-
posed, that ht had a cold about two mouths since,
and that he bought a halfpennyworth of. Oatmeal
at Mr, Coopet's, arid used the whOte

Newman deposed, that he did tibt know of
anypoisOnWhatevin- being -in the libuse. Aboti
-two vents and a half since he bought some stuff to
kilVrats, xvhieli he used for that puxpose.
•Brown, the Beadle, on conyeyin.,,, Miller to the
woikhouse, as 0 place cif security till the decision
of the Inquest,. deposed, that she said ghe Made
the grnel of grits, but not finding i,t thick enough,
she took nearly a table- spoonful of oatmeal front
o,paper that was in a jar in a 'cupboard in the
kitchen ; that • she mixed it up in a butter-boat,
and pu; 'it io the gruel, throwing the parer, with
a little oatmeal that was left, into the nee ; and
said that there was in the same jar oatmeal and
poison—hoth in separate papers. •
Hem-v. Hill, journeyman to Mr. Newman, de-
posed, that. Air. Walker, the hair-dresser, came
with some stuff to kill the rats, and that.., some
of 'left in a paper, Which the witness
took into • the kit•chen-,. when the 'maids were at
tea ; Ire, opened -the paper, and said it was -poison
to kill rats he does not recollect what became
of it. • .•

The Jury, after consulting near an hour, gave
their verdict, finding. Elizabeth Miller Guilty of
Wilful Murder; when the 'Coroner issued. a war-
rant for her committal to floriemonger-lime pri-
son, for trial at the next Surrey-Assizes..-=-She is
about 17 years of age, ani had lived in Mr. New-
man's family about lour months.

EXECUTION of T. BEDWORTH for Mt RDER.

Pursuant to his sentence, this unhappy man,
found guilty of the murder of Elizabeth 13eatuore,
was executed this morning. The, crowd asseut-
blA to witness- the awful ceremony was COnsider-
>able. The unhappy culprit was perfectly resigned
to hiS fate, and since his surrender to the Magi-
strates, nev(!r ceased to acknowledge his guilt,
and the Justice of the fate that awaited hint. The
apparent indifference, or opposition to this feel-
ing, which he manifested on his trial, arose.from
a few supposed errors detailed by the evidence,
but not as it regarded his actual guilt. From the
time of his conviction, to the latest period this
morning, he aw,:eared perfectly resigned, and gave
himf,elf up to constant devotion. On Sunday
nio“ And yesterday he obtained leave of the Rev.
Mr. COTTON to join the young Convict' School,
in singing the.evening and morning Hymns. In
his._ devotions, last night he was -attended by a
young Gentleman of a Dissenting Church, and
evinced much aniety for the period of his exe-
cution tit arrive. He renntrked, that the crowd
who were probably assembling to witness his fate,
bad het ter have " been at 'home Praying for them -
selves, if not for him." Upon the arrival of the
Sheriffs at his' cell, a few minutes 'before eight.
o'clock, he walked forth with great firmness, and
stepping up to Mr. Sheriff LEIGx, cordially shook
him by the hand. tie then assisted, with great
presence of mind, in knocking off his owfl irons,
and begged that a pair of gaiters he liad worn,
might be restored to the person from whom he
"had thew. The procession then moved forward,
and the eolprit, With his eyes fixed towai•cls hea7
vet), walked firmly to the scaffold, whiCh he as-
cended, with an undaunted step, and unassisted.
Alter remaining; a few moments in. prayer with
the Ordinary, and expressing an unshaken confi-'
thence in the mercy of God through the licde.enier,
he was Launched into eteimity. His body, when.,
curdown, was conveyed to be dissected.