The Sun.
London, England, 1805-08-16 00:00:00

TIIURSUAY.

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D 1,71111.131 ASSIZES,

THE KING V. NtitTc,m.r.
Richard illetca/f,',aod 33 yeat's, late tlf ip-
wearinouth, labourer, was charged by the Corcuer':s
Inquest with the wilful murder of John MeLAf,
au infant, lying dead at Biskopwearniontli aforesaid.
Mr. Los tt, for the prosecution, stated the india-
mitt.

Mr. Hora.ocx. stated the case .as will hereafter be
detailed in evidence ; he said that in this case Plain-
tiff's wife mold be brought in evidence against him,
and though in law, '4S his wife, she could not be
admitted as evidence, yet he was enabled to prove
that the marriage . was illegal, because the Prisoner
had a former, wife then living; and, at the time of
lai marriage With Mary Parker, she had borne a child
to another person, which the Prisoner well knew of,
and afterwards, becaine the unhappy vi Mini of the
PriSoner's wickedness.

The fit* witness, Luke Rutter, produced a regi-
ster of the marriage from the register books of the
parish of Bishopwearmouth between the Prisoner
and Ann Elliot, iii the year 1801.
Kink' Bent►icon • deposed that she knew the Pri-
soner about seven years ; that she knew Ann Elliot
also, and was at her marriage with the Prisoner
about tbur years ago, and signed her name or cross
in the church book at Bishopwearmouth churcl4--
After their marriage they lived tbr, a short time at
_byre's -Quay ;. she said she had known Ann Elliot
above a year before her marriage with the Prisoner,
and knew her family, who' lived with Mrs. Good.
child, at Palion, at the time of her marriage; she
thought her to be about 25 ywrs of age ; she did
not know that Ann Elliot .had another husband at
the time, nor had any children, but had lived with
her parents previous to her Marriage. • .
John Bennison deposed. that he' knew Ann Met-
calf, the Prisoner's first wife ; he had becaiat:The,
wedding dinner, and had seen Ann Metcalf on Whit-
Sun Wednesday at Barnardcastle, and she was at
that tinie• in good health ; knew 'the partieS'both
before and since their marriage, ►►nd knew of no
future marriage.'
. _ .

John Raine proved the marriage register by banns
between the Prisoner and Mary Parker, his present
Wife, at Monkwearmouth, on the 3d of March, 1805,
and that he knew they afterwards lived. together at
BishopWcarmouth.
Mary Parker, the Prisoner's second wife, deposed
that she lived-With the Prisoner, and had a child pre:.
vious to her marriage with him, which lived with
them, but. the Prisoner was not its father 5 she said
he, ,never, upbraided her with it, but seemed to ..be
very fond of it, always so before her. On the 6th
Of July last the .Prisoner sent for her to a public
house in \Varminstoii ; it was on the Saturday
night, about seven o'cloek, and she tOok the child
with her ; the Prisoner then gave her his week's
wages, after whiCh she left him, as she had to .go to
market ; she wished him to go with her ; he replied,
4‘ Go home, and get the child asleep, and I will fol.
low presently," 'which she did: Before the left the
public' house the Prisoner gave the child some ale;
it was then sixteen months old; the Prisoner came
hoine about half past seven ; she then left him in the
house, and went to market ; the child was then
quite well, and seemed asleep in the cradle; about
half an hoUr she returned home, and observed that
the cradle was not in the same Way which she left
it; she was alarmed, and went and brought in a
:young woman,. her neighbour, who lived next door;
she then took'. up, the child, bat she thought it was •
not her own child, it was so bruised and swelled ;
its mouth and tilde were all swelled; The prisoner
was not in the house when she returned from market,
and she otiserved that he had taken, away his better
clothes, which were hUng up in a knapsack. After
the child was taken out of the cradle it could not
breathe for :a quarter of an hour ; her neighbours,
were immediately alarmed ; it remained very ill all
night, and died about a quarter before seven o'clock
next morning ; the next day she, saw the Pri-
soner in the house of the constable, about three
o'clock in the afternoon ; she asked him what he
had done it for ? he'replied, it was passion ; he then
had on different clothes to those he, had on when
she had last seen !inn.

Question by the Judge, " Did you know Jane
Elliot ?"—" 1 did not." •

•
Elizabeth. 11.:(len was next caned; She deposed
that she lived next door to the Prisoner, and was
called into their_,,house about nine o'clock in the
e• vetting of the 6th of July last by the mother
of the deceased ; there was nobody in the house
but the mother, and she took the child out of
the cradle' it was lying close wrapped np, and she
took it up. The child had thrOwn up its supper,
and its face was, covered with it. , She took it up and
set it, upon' her knee ; and it bled at the nose and
mouth,•and did not stir tar a quarter of an hout; and
stopped with it until it died the next morning.-7
She said that Dr. Bell Was sent for a little after nine
o'clock, iu.the evening before its death ; she said die
child was Sore bruised at the back part of the head,
and its back all black and blue, and swelled.
A-4,n It obioson said site lived next door to the Pri-
soner, and was itt the house ahoti",: nine o'clock in
the evening of the tith of. July last. She described
the situation:pithe deceased nearly the same as the
two precedifig:witnesses. About three o'clock .in the
following morning saw the Prisoner at the back part
of his own ' house, he was then turning froth the back
part of the'window, seemingly to conceal himself. ,
She saw the body of the child after its death ; it ap-
peared black on the face, a great lump on the head,
and' very black. on the left side. .
Abraham Snowden lives near the Prisener's house, •
Which he was in on the title of July, about ten
O'clock at. night. 1k afterwards got up about two
o'clock in the morning, and went down a yard be-
hind the Prisoner's house,- anefent-d: the Prisoner
thetvi lying :01 the ground, in a corner of, the yard,
but: did not speak to him. The witness' returned,
and goLpat tof his addle?, on, and, going back-a Oe-
cond time, he found the Prisoner in custody.
Thomas Moor, a constabic of BishopWearmouth,
prf.)vcd do tug the Prisoner into custody about ludf
two o'co.k li. on the morning of ilic.7th-ot July.
.(said he) frnd limn lying in his own yard. I told
bird he was my PriSdner for ill using the ,
Upon being asked by the judge, upon the beginning
of the remainder of the evidence, he said, he had
not tisvd any threats or promises, to extort a copies-