The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-11 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.-(TMS DAY).

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Serjeant Attains.)
John Short stood indicted for breaking into tile house
of Win. Moore, at Pinner, on the 12th of March last, and
taking from thence two 51. notes of the Bank of England,
and various other articles, his property.—Verdict, " Guilty
of stealing in. a dwelling-house."
Ccitharine Welsh was indicted for the wilful murder of
Jutny Welsh, an infant, on the first day of last March.
'slaty Hickman deposed, that as she was passing through
Parsogreen on the 2d of March she observed the body
of a child lying in a ditch of water. She spewed the body
to her husband who was with her. It appeared about six
weeks old. The constable carried the body to his house.
ts.3°}ln Levett deposed that he is constable of the parish of
eau:, r.hied arn;
when he took the child out of the water he
it to his house, and from thence to the sign of the
White Horse, where Mr. Holmes, the surgeon, examined
the body in Are presence of the deponent.
Mr. Holmes, the surgeon, stated that the body of the
child exhibited several bruises, which might have been
caused either by blows or by falling against stones when
thrown into the ditch. Considered that the wound on the
forehead was not sufficient to have caused death. The
eyes were suffused with blood, and the eye-balls appeared
tto have sustained severe pressure. No marks appeared on
heneck to cause the appearance of being strangled.
Pressing the neck might have produced the blood in the
eyes in some degree. The child might have been strangled
Without any marks appearing on the throat ; particularly
if it had previously received a blow on the head. The
internal parts of the child were in a healthy
state. Considers the death to have been caused
by pressure on the trachea. The wound on the
temple he was certain had been inflicted while
the child was alive. Had seen the prisoner in the work-
house before he examined the child, and asked her if she had
been suckling a child ? She replied, that she had not for
two months before. He examined her breasts, and found
that they had contained milk, which she accounted for by
ZaYing, that she had been drawing her milk for that time, in
hope of getting a situation as wet-nurse; that her child had
;led two months before at the age of a fortnight ; it was
born on Saffron-hill, and had been baptised at the Spanish
Chapel.
Levett, the constable, produced a bundle of the prisoner's
clothes, which he had received from Catherine Barclay,
Of Parson's-green. There were no children's clothes in
that bundle. The place where the child was found was
about two miles from Catharine Barclay's house. About half-
past nine o'clock, on the morning that the child was
found, witness saw the prisoner walking near the ditch,
sad looking closely into the water. She went from thence
to King's-road. Witness told her he had found something
and asked her if it was her's ? She asked what it was, and
he replied a child, and asked her what she had done with
the child she had had the evening before. She said, she
had no child, and said, if witness wanted her, he would
find her at Mrs. Fitch's where she was going to work the
next (lay. She then went on, but the neighbours insisted
cdtil,, the witness going after her, which he accordingly
", and asked her to go- along with him to the
Place where she said she had slept the night before. She
said her child had been buried about two months, and that
t
was registered in the name of Johnny Wright. She said
h
Wars delivered at a house on Saffron-hill, but she did
"5t know the cumber, nor the name of the people. Wit •
015'7 asked her the name of the person who buried the
vd, but she prevaricated very much, and therefore wit-
t 'I
CB5 que.stiomed her no farther.
'lames Wright deposed that he lives in the King's-road,
4°(l knows the place where the child was found. Lives
nearly opposite to it. Was shewn it by a person named
jeBD• I saw a woman near that place about six o'clock
the evening of the day before the child was found.
‘v,s in the field at the time, and spoke to her. Witness%`(l) `' It is rather muddy welkin.- here ;" and she re-
T'ed, " Yes, my dear, it is." She'hal on the gown pro-
uCed, and a cloak over it. She had the cloak so wrapped
around her, that it seemed as if she had a child, or
sninething else, under the cloak. Witness did not either
"e or hear the child. She then went over the plank and
a:4Y from the place. I have seen that woman since at
the in and now at the bar. She is the same woman
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nave seen at the eel brook.
Mr. Holmes, the surgeon, recalled.—The child found
was a male child.
Caleb Stacey deposed, that he saw the child taken out
of the ditch. Saw the prisoner the day before two or
three times. She had something under a large cloak,
Which appeared to be a child. The third time witness
saw her, she was looking very closely in the ditch, and
then returned on the road towards London ; and she still
hAd'the same bundle under her cloak.
'Catharine. Barclay deposed, that she lives at Parsons'
reen, and the prisoner came to bee house about seven
fo'clock on Saturday night. She said she came looking
for Work, witness had seen her a couple of times before ;
we liked witness if she had any girls lodging with her ?
~be s
answered that she had, and mentioned their names;
~hee slept there that night, and had a bundle under her cloak;
we went out on Sunday morning but returned soon after
the constable.
lhe prisoner in her defence said, that she was delivered
~,;11 Saffron-hill, and her child lived only a fortnight. It
itZ buried in the old burying ground, High-street, Mary-
Yie• She had not a friend in the world to speak to
°, to amid her. She was never outside the doors with
bee child until it died.
lenLord TENTERDEN charged the Jury at considerable
fftli, after which they consulted together for about
haminute% in the box, but not agreeing, they retired at
Past twelve o'clock to consider of their verdict.
130 their return into Court, at half-past three, they
°tlnd the prisoner Guilty, but recommended her to mercy,
as the evidence was only circumstantial. On hearing this
N „',.r:linte the prisoner was powerfully affected ; and cried
-"` Several times, " My soul will b, in heaven, for I and
not guilty of this crime." She then fainted. She was
Ordered for execution on Monday.
.nutsel Brown was indicted for assaulting James Gal-
',67lY on the King's highway, and stealing from his person
'us., his property.
Ile prisoner, in his defence, said that he was quite in-
nocent of the crime laid to his charge.
Two witnesses gave him a good character for general
honesty.

After
Verdict--"
Which Mr. Justice PARK charged the Jury.
Guilty."

NEW COURT.
Thomas Ifollier was convicted of stealing several silver
Pons and forks, the property of Mrs. St. Leger, who re-
sides at 22, Baker-street.
On the morning of the 31st of March, the prisoner was
ksoi by the footman going out through the door of the
front area. He •was pursued, and on being searched, the
Phperty was found in his coat pocket. It was stated, that
Prisoner had leen for a considerable time in the habit of
Sneaking down the areas of houses in that nei4hbourhood,
under pretence of selling potatoes.
James Bailey was convicted of stealing three gallons of
wherry, the property of Mr. Lovegrove, the landlord of the
Percy Arms, in Rathbone_place.
Mr, CLARKSON, for the Prisoner, submitted, that the
article alleged to have been stolen was not sufficiently de-
leribed in the indictment. It was impossible, from what
aPPeared on the face of the indictment, to say whether the
r4ianner was charged with stealing wine, inasmuch as the
11ter stolen was merely designated " sherry."
The, COMMON SeituraNT was of Opinion that the Case
°Oqt to go to the Jury, it would be for them to say whe-
N-,,,er_;the evidence clearly explained what was meant by the
serf ° sherry." It appeared that -the prisoner was oti-
,,itleed.,sitting in a cart, in which there were two pipes of
his b, me property of prosecutor. The prisoner had
(2, he
to the horse, and was observed to be working at
°f the pipes as if in the act of boring with a gim-
h,;" This induced a beadle, who had for some time
min
watching his motions to approach the. cart,
aek—ill„which tlae prisoner dashed a nose hag violently
tai ,14‘ °l,e of the Wheels, and broke a large bottle con-
th-,..ng wine. The bottle was in the nose hag. Duringo
att„-°4fu,ion the carman absconded, and the prisoner
lea, to escape.
phrme-aa Proved that the pipe of wine which, to use the
107 ,(;t. the witness, had been " plundered," contained
London
L .ouoni of wine on delivery v to the carman, at the
groly, 'Jacks, and that on being guaged, at Mr. Love•
there was found to be a deficiency of three gallons.

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Mick "x,
BROKER'S CON VICT lONS.--At the
cut tel ~•3:s.sions (this day) a series of information The; :fors the Court, on appeals from convictions.
hVtatlbleite're laid by an informer named HAwLINS, who
employed by the well-known MvEtts. Mr.
tow, it, of No. I, Church-way, New-road, Somers-
' was the defendant.
St tEh
X:}:CLITION.—JOSEPIE PRES ros, convictei
pu,ea loe Stafford Assizes of incestuous rape, was executed
"e-4rtiors to his sentence
made durstig on Saturthe da
ta week to y mornirw. Great
,Pite had been el7in a re-.
tided
thatprieve for him ; but Mr. Baron VAutarAN d
the law must take its course. The wretched
i.:67ol)erlisited to the last in making the most solemn decla-
tuff of his innoceJournale crime for which he was to
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