The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

It affords us great pleasure in being able
to say her MAJESTY ConthlueS So Mitch bct -
ter, as to have been able to ride out in her
garden cheise fl,4Bitl, on Toesd4v, tor halt an
hour. Her MaiEsTY proceeded throng the plea-
sure ground attached to Kew Palace ; cite was
most affectionately accompanied by the Duchess
of GLOUCI:STeIt, the Princess AuctisTA, and the
Duke of SussKx. Her 11ASErr: %Val attended
one of her medical t!cmhintg, H. Ilfratotto.
The Patrics REGENT called to pAy his distitu:
respects to his beloved mother, on his way from
Hampton Court. The account from Kew yes-
terday was, " The Qua F iiaS had a good night
and is better."—(Court ('ircuLix .)

Alußnsß AT Erso M.—Some further particulars
have transpired teshecting the It rocions murder of
Ely Cox. Yesterday, JAMIts TILOTT.uIt, bird. Jo-
sers GittmsTEao, Est!. and several other Magis-
trates, assembled at Epsom, when the otlieets,
May and Hall, brought before them three men
strongly suspected to belong to a gang of poach-
ers. Their names are John Jones, William Borer,
and William Jefferies ; but after a long investiga
lion, no posi!ivc evidence was adduced to impli-
cate them in the murder, and they were di.-
charged. Hall, the officer, then stated, that iie
bad a commtmication to make respecting Thomas
Osborne (who continued in custody) which he
considered to be of great importance. Why!' Os-
borne wis; first apprehended, his cottage was
searched, but nothing was found that could sup-
port the suspicion of guilt, which led to his I,e-
-ing taken into custody. Subsequently to the dis-
covery of the bloody apron which was found in a
dart: room at his residence, and which caused hits
to be taken into custody a second tittle, another
search bad been made at his house, and a pair of
pantaloons extremely bloody,and a waistcoat with
several marks of blood upon it, had been found
between the sacking of his bedstead and the bed 5
a place which was searched in the first instance
in the must catelul manner, and where the bloody
apparel could not have been deposited willowt
being discovered. The pantaloons and waist coat
were very much torn, and a shirt, which had been
newly tvw=hed, and teas conce,iled in the saint.
place, was literally rent to pieces. Exettions
the detection 01 the guilty persons conlittue to be
carried on with unabated vigour. Osborne is con.
tined a iouin by 'damp..

SYjRREY 4ag. I I.

IleAre Mr. Justice ABBOTT.

t:1-1.11tCiES OF c;I-IILD

Mary Storze %iris charged 00 the oeth of Ver
sister, Ileiriet Hampton, with )roving wilfully
murdered a female child, of which she (the pri-
soner) was the mother, in the month of Septem-
ber !SIG, at Richmond.
The prisoner, who was a most intereiting look-
ing young %Tomei), was placed on the :teat neat'
the table, as she appeared too weak to siipport
herself in the nsital place where pt•isonets stand to
be arraigned. She seemed quite dejected nod
trot down. Her features, which were remark-
ably intelligent and expressive, indicated extreme
anxiety sod emotion. (hi being arraigned in the
usual manner, end called on for bet plea, she
replied, in a faint but agonized roue of voice—.
" Not guilty."
The nrosecirrix, Mrs. Harriet Hemptnn, sens
them put into the witness' box. Site appeared
to
he a fine yOn lig VV.II:d11, iihf,lll 19 or 20 years of
age. Ott casting her eyes downwards to where
tie pristmer sat, she burst into tears, and ex-
dinned, with great apparent anguish, 0, my
sister, my sister !" The prison ,r feinted (!heist;;
het' sister's aeitatioo, but was qeedily recovered;
the letter, sitter having beets raker tint into the
opee (sir, was soot; sufficiently well etiougb
to
give her evidence, which site did with less tippet-
reel ehlbarra•sinetot than mi:zht Rare been expect-
ed. Her evidence was as tollow•: •
" Its the month of September, 1616, 1 think on
-the 25th, 1 slept, as was my custom, with my
Fish r Mary Stolle. About two o'cleek in the
mottling she said sate' was in extreme pain, and
;)(tidy Ares site was delivered of a female ceild ;
it cried anti 1 wanted to seo oot and call in es•ist-
me!, , but she would not let me. Very shortly
after the child seas horn, it mieht be about half-
' peer two or three o'clock in the mottling at the
25th September, tny sister fusced her hand into
the infant's mouth aud eleraked it, and then thrust
the body into a pen under the bed. She after-
-wards threw herself On the bed, and got up in a
moment. I :hen said I'd cry out, awl call for
sonielmq to conic ; toy sister replied; that if I
attempted to do so she would kill me at the in-
stant, and then kill herself. 1 was therefore so
frightened that 1 desisted from attempting to give,
tiny slat in. My sistet left the body in the pan on
that night, and on the followiteg one made tip a
fire in the room, and tried to burn it, but the flesh
melds' such a crackling noise that site was afraid it
would he heard, end she took it off the fire and
replaced it in the pan. The next morning she took
it down stairs, tivri letrot it in the copper to ashes;
she then cleaned the copper out, and threw the
ashes on the dunghill,"
Cross-examined by the CO'NflstON ..`SF.IISI3.ANT.—"
am the sister of the prisnner. 1 first told this
story about twelve months age, or shortly alter I
got men led. I let it out one night in my sleep,
and 'on being questioned the telloeing, morning.by
my letsbanil, I confessed the truth to hint ; toy
husband is not hereto-day. My sister kept the •
house we lived in at, Richmond ; it was a Satan
house, having only three rooms, and being thinly
partitioned, so that what passed within may be
heard by the neighbours. My sister and I always
slept in the snipe ;my sweetheart then, but
hitshand note, slept in the opposite l'ooll to ours ;
a man of the name of Davis Kenyon, and my bro-
ther, generally slept in the third room. I never
said my sister, who was tin unmartied woman,
was in egnant before this matter took place. I
don't know that isey body noticed it, for she ge-
nerally slept in bed for a time before she lay in.
Wile!' she killed the child, I was afraid to >tisrttt
any burly, lest she'd carry her ti teat into execu-
tion of making; away with es both. My sister
este' me very ill since this transaction ; her ill
usage eommeoetel about a fortnight after it hap-
pened ; she then threatened to turn me out of
doors, nod wished the every bit I put into my
moulds might cituak use, She disliked my mar-
riage, though I never lead the smallest to
her, or expressed myself to that elf( et to any
hotly. I never said to Mrs. Wilkes that I'd ruin •
the prisoner, or that I wished her dead to get the
5001.011 c of the Balk. I never said that as I was
Hot of age, I could not get the money yet, or
heped that she might die first. 1 believe we are
entitled to 5001. which is in the Bank ; Messrs.
Smith and ‘S altos are the trustees fur soy brother,
sister, and self. Mv brother told toy husband of
our having this property, but I never mentioned
it to him. because I did not know, exactly how the
money stood. My sister had a child before this
last ; a grown boy, has always lived with
her, and she treats it well ; she !educed her last
child's bones to ashes, and threw the ashes on' the
• dunghill—this was what 1 said before the Me-
gistrates."—[On a retereects to this witness's de-
positions, het words were found to have been,
" My sister raked the bones Ott or the fire, see
then threw them on the dtingfill."] •

The ease for the prosecution being dosed, the
prisoner was called on for her defence, but she
declined saying any thing. The tollowilig
tirs•es were called in her beloalf ;
Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkes saiit, that in Septem-
ber, 1816. she lived at Trentham, where she
kliex it Proseentrix, but not the prisooer. Her
husband worked with her in shoe-making. Wit-
ness repeatedly heard the pioseentrix wish fur
her sister's (the prisoner's) death, saying on
such OCCaSiOitS, that she wanted her money, She
remembered her siviing on one particular occasion
" j wish she was dead, fur then 1 woidd have the
money, and toy loishand and me coidd get into
business on our own account." Anont three
weeks after the marriage of IlAniet Hampton,
she complained to witness, that the ptisiiner de-
manded a week from her hiohaud, for the tin,e
hitt wife hail liver{ with her before she knew him ;
and she added, " afraid she'll get the amount
horn the trustee, Mr. Smith, who is. her friend."
Mr. Walton, of Kingston, proved he was a
tros,ee under the trill pox produced, by which
500/. was bequeathed to the prisoner, her brothtr,
and sister, with the benefit of swvivorship. The
inalTied Sislem was not yet Of age.
Mr. Justice ABouTT.eliargeil the Jury. He
ti at the cousideration to which their at-
temi,n was HOW called presented, in WI‘PAPVeI
Way it could be viewed, one of the most mean.

. .
, Cli ti ,C
choiy instances of hum dcil.7aviti-- -'
mind could trill conceive. If they -1,). elieved .t,ll
witness for the prosecution, they ,mist con";e
tile prisoner of the foul and horrible criare of ,;'
murder of her own neiv.bort) child ; if OKI
believed her., they must decide that ()lie .t%t
il'sters had ta!sely atitt,imilattromily conspired aglii•qn"'
the life of the other, in the shocking expeet°'ll-:
of thereby con'ting a short time sooner to the
cssion of •,111.1! property than sire ,s °lr't
17 to do in he 11;n:ill course of thiugs.
either alternative the reil.ection was
re s
ing. The story, as related by the prisoner o
sister, tuition bt ediy went to ,how 1114
herself had not acted tt.;.; she 040. 13 it 'l,,
own state went were correct., for bbe
et
only, by Pier own confession, was present be
the 111111 tier, but lid refraiik,ed trot) trttc
slightest alarm, and also Concedieu it fur ;;I:
long period which hail inter,eticti between liiet-ts.
leged cominisSiot Of the act, and the tittre "-to
she gait the infomm, Aim). It Was f.,1- the JalY"..;
te
say ‘‘ helmet., q mhe St,) ti
could look upon it as (201111 ed 11) their Crcthile4.
Noi !ling was ely nitit e ifhprollabie rtlAn t°
I:eve ilia, a ‘C'n111;111 la a ',4.,,,7411 !loose like the Pi,rom
sutler's, with etery little room at the moment
Ctli,ied, MO so commul'ice;;lla.
i•
it irti the udj doing Looses that what peissca
one MIS ahmlible in time o•liet---nothing,l e r.
could be mote improlmable than tlfa'4l
tVOIII4II rdtc,tild have, vcithnut in :king the "1/I'llLin
no:se, or expressing the. slig!llest *train, 3° 85,
he audible outside her .rouin, hare boy thg „,
tt,rally severe and acute pains to ehildbearinl.
°
Th(re was 001, besides, time smallest evitleno
1,4
show that any hotly had seen the prisoner ir/.01
state of pregnancy before this occurrence
s,id to have taken place, and it was iu°s"ll-
- that an unmarried woman could have e°‘„,
ed observation in such a state. It the body teat
burned in the manner described, how had it liar'
n
.gelled that the very offensive arisittg.fr°ol
such a process had never attracted the li"lolfr'
any body in this small house ? the vit jolt
statement together, it stood unconfirmed 11 ced
testimony w hich triir;lit, were it true, be 0(1(11:
in its support.• 'lke Learned Judge concifide"ll,4
observing to the July, that if the
• prisoncrl
really'eorninitted the act in the manner descrlol„o
nothing tea, more unlikely that) that she h die
have quarreller!, t1,;11 almost immediately afterfile
fact, with the ro.twn who balanced her hilt
her hands. red''
'The Jury, without ihesitation, returned :1
diet of Nos •Goi//y. sJC
The next prisoner pot to the liar wai //frt.?! rf7.?m,e-toitr,,
H
date lonliittg unit thirteen (amt
stood eliarg-ed with the wilt i iourder of a fonalc
child, to which she gave birth all the 25)1* last ft.m'r
af
ilefilttulit,
Several withesses proved the hirth of dips child in rte
state; on the 24th .lane. 'Tie prisonersettned foffil,l 01'-
it was •found des.; her tWi• days
some livid atat.l.4 its nw,•
the 04,
plilllirtily':o9l,ltd If dressing the c!,i1,1 afttr its bi
tributen to something like cont vision Et. f
The chief witiiess prOve that t child died °' `Sf
death aas Mr. Newman, a poi', who was t'e4',o,ol,
opiniun, from the examination iit the itifaiit's head iiiittodxo
externally and internally, that u Lett 11,. death ity 0' 0.0)
(it'll and fractures in the head, which eaustd r"
its
swat, u: the vessels, anti xri eixtravas iti of I,lffi'd.•
Of two ut the turs)rr wit desics, rciaalo4 tut.;
the priioner and child, being recalled, they Oectr:iii3v:'
declarations, that her treatiocitt of the clual /601'-
Va
natty kind and attentive.
The Jury, ;liter au abie charge front tile Jag*
verdict ut—_Vcit
oseS; .
ESCAPE FROM THE KING'S IiENCII
TOE KING U. ROBERT HANIFT°t4OOst
This Was et case Of a vet y Lewd! otol
oloiot
portant !!.plate. It was all ji)(11( (11),11. Of I'
defendant for c.icttoing trout tame
King's Bench pri,on. „be cif;
LAwes opened the case, and S'atel islet' I';
Stances, which were atterwatmls Sul ""11,14, to
the testimony of Mr. 13roochhoir,
tapit d
Jones, the Imirsital, Iron) whose ev
tl' sec
tr
peered, that the dutesidant, a mail 01
able appearance, bad been removed 14 of 1)(11,111
Corpus troutthe ctistody of the Shy'
.ostotlY
don, upon a writ of Latitia, to
the Marshal of the King', Ilench. 1.4 e
had the benefit of the rules -of the Plisloll
wja
giving the usurpusurpsecurity to the Alar•el"r, spat
mouth the of March last he broke th 110
c esaped ;in consequence of • ,•„},
the. oto
was obliged to pay deb( 411 d. Cuss 1(,),. defrOd?.be
of 254/. lOs. A few months since It `%ra.ii, of 'F
vt as re-taken, ;11111 10(14,d Within the _whs.
prison, having been absent about il"1 robortt
informed witness .that he hailheen
ru
and other places on the Continent. no heil
OY -
Mr. pott's then addressed to _
e oJ (Pic"
half of the defendant with great -
jorl'
ingenuity.
his charg.
__ooo 0",0
„ to 01-
Mr. Justice ABBOTT, in
said, there could be no doubt that 3,1:• iry trio,/
fully placed in prison, would be bred' (1,1
offence against the law, if be were: whethe.r of
of such custody. 'I
he question voll:011/
rides of the Bench prison `c ii itl
law a prison, and whether aHip 014:
within those rules seas guillY 0t Nuor, 11/60001:
the law in departing therclroirrvete °
Rules of the King's Bench, pris°"benefit pee
mind that a person having rhe
3inst 111'10,1 tWe
Rides was guilty of all offe"eeLilt
he should escape therefrom, his
the Johiti
rsY5„Ol
the slightest doubt in delivel"lg C,Z,j005 reio;o0
matter of law ; ant( for this ,
„„) a it
to le
t-If
, ,►
that the Alarshal wont() [Pt, ere' 1 lt~
e,
escape, tit time snit of his ri'etv 0
stitieretl hint to depart the It"'lt-::p,i,mor),
wt re not to be.considered as 1.)1,,, that P„ef1
s°o,
cessary ctinsetpietted must lie, `.t.Ay fro!"
must tor the timilire he take') g'bortftliT,tot
Urig
to 11 pogo A
cool:tied in such cns.totly.
hesitam ion it) saying, that v 4 he '4,
io 1, this
10.,:0py Oltd,
time benefit of the Rules, de "1.1)c sosb odivit
and in departing those les' teas 00114 1006
escape ()in pririott• The 15.-.)111 biro g
de' OP
a" therefore the Jury must 0'
the golf 4
fonnt oto
The Jury accordingly font
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isoninent in the County
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