The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-10 00:00:00

allowing such evidence;-and the wisest Judge which
England had ever produced (Sir Michael Foster),
had declared that confession by such means was
more liable to contain falsehood than truth, and was
of all evidence the very worst.
Mr. Bourne re-examined—Prisoner said, " I'll
tell you all about it." Witness cautioned him as to
a confession. Prisoner said it was true; he did go
down stairs again, and that he found Bagnall in bis
pantry; that she began quarrelling with him; that
he took up a stick and struck her repeated blows till
she fell; she kept screaming, and said she would
have him hanged. He by some means or other found
himself upon Bagnall; he knelt upon her, and took
a knife from his waistcoat pocket and cut her
throat ; he took away her purse, with some half-
pence; he put the halfpence in his waistcoat pocket,
and put the purse where it was found on the follow-
ing morning. He then washed his hands And knife
and went up stairs, took out the wine and spirits
from the cellaret, and drunk some, and threw some
of it away ; left the bottles as they were found.
Every thing that was packed up, the tea-urn and
bread, he also placed where they were found ; he
then went to bed.

Tugwell, Esq., Mayor of Bath, examined--
Was Mayor in January last; recollects going to the
gaol on the 2d Feb., accompanied by Mr. George,
the town clerk; he saw Gilham in Beurne's room;
prisoner said he did the deed; did nottake this down
in writing.—(The confession of the prisoner before
the Magistrates was then read in Court.)---The
confession was read over to the prisoner by Mr.
George, who asked him if he had any objection to
sign it ; he said his hand shook so, he could not
write his name, but it was all true.

George Wilcox took the prisoner to the county
gaol, on the 3d February; on the road the prisoner
said it was a horrible thing, but he could not help it;
he said he heard the deceased running out against
himself and wife, and that his blood was boiling.—
Prisoner said he did the deed at eleven► at night, and
was not more than three minutes about it. After
he had committed the deed he found his mind quite
relieved. The state of the premises (it will be re-
collected, they were found as if they had been broken
open externally) was occasioned by himself. He
broke open the door with a bill-hook; and he brought
down the urn from a plate chest, and scraped the
walls with a spade, to make it appear that some-
body had got over the wall.
The evidence for the prosecution closed at a quar-
ter past seven. The prisoner, on being called on
for his defence, merely said he was innocent. About
a quarter to ten, the Jury, after ten minutes' consi-
deration, returned a verdict of Guilty. His Lord-
ship immediately proceeded to pass the awful sen-
tence of death, without holding out the slightest
prospect of mercy. He was ordered to be executed
on Thursday next, and his body to be given over to
a surgeon for dissection.

The prisoner's countenance, during the trial, un-
derwent very little variation,; but on receiving sen-
tence he held down his head, a death-like paleness
came upon him, and he appeared to be at once la-
bouriag under the workings of an overburdened con-
science, and a sense of his dreadful situation.