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" When do you intend to marry me ? You must
tell me the truth." I said I had told her many a
time I did not intend to be married vet. I said we
had nothing to be married with,—we had no Foods,
nor nothing to furnish a house with. She said her
father had signed, over all the goods to her : they
were all her 's if she had a mini I said that did
not signify to me. She said, if I did not- believe
her, she would fetch the paper, and show it to me.
She did fetch a paper out of the shop, and I read a
line or two; there was both writing and printing on
it, and her name was at the bottom ; I did not see
her father's name. I gave her it again, and said I did
not understand it. I saw the word " snuff" in it,
and I asked her what it meant. She said, the snuff
was in along with the rest of the goods and things.
James Shorrock, ay.',zugman of about 18.—I
know the prisoner and also George Richardson very
well. I saw Jane • between five and six on the
Sunday night. She. said, " I have just been
watching George go into the dandy shop, to Betty
Watson's. George thinks to make a fool of me.
I'll make a bigger fool of him. • He'll be here after
awhile." She then said, "My father and mother
are very badly. I'll go in ;.o supper; stop here
till I come back." She went away, and came again
in about 20 minutes, and said, " Oh, J em, my father
and mother are sure to die,—are sure to die." I
said, " We're all sure to die." She said, " We're
all sure to die, but not so soon as them." She added,
" Next week I am going to Manchester. I owe
you two shillings. Come to-morrow might and I'll
pay thee." She said, " When I come back from
Manchester, I'll be wed, and we'll have a bit of a
stir:" She did not say to whom she would be
wedded. She said, she would not ask every body,
but she would ask me, because I was such a nice
lad. She said, her father and mother had signed
over all to her, they had three houses, and when she
came back from Manchester, she would sell one,
which would set them up in some kind of business,
and then they weuid go to Liverpool to her Mary,
meaning her sister. _ _

Coss-examined.---I had known her well for four
or five years. I knew she was subject to fits. I
don't know whether they weakened her under-
standing.
Robert Brown, surgeon—i went to Scott's house
at about half after nine o'clock in the evening of
the Monday night. Mrs. Scott was sitting in a
chair in the kitchen, supported by Mrs. Cragg,
vomiting violently. From what I learnt I concluded
she was poisoned. I had some conversation with
Jane Scott.' Whilst the water was making ready I
desired to see the pan in which the porridge was
made. She bad told me at my house when she
came for me, that they had got ill immediately after
taking some porridge. Afterwards she told me that
she had made it. When I asked for the pan in
which it was made, she brought it ; there was
from half an ounce to an ounce of the porridge
remaining in it. I desired her and the other persons
present that it might be put on one side, that I
might examine it when I was more at leisure. It
was placed on the table under the window. • I asked
for the pan, in order to send it to my house. The
prisoner brought it, and I saw it was washed out. I
said I was surprised she should have meddled with
the pan after the orders I had given to preserve it.
She said, the water applied in the pump had been
boiled in the pan. I answered, that pan had not
been used at all. I had superintended the boiling of
rho water. Shp made no answer. I then asked her
for the basin from which Mr. Scott bad taken the
porridge. She said she had emptied it into the
canal. The canal is from 50 to 100 yards from the
house. I expressed my surprise that she should
have taken it so far. She said, her father had told
her to take it. 1 asked her if she was in the habit
of taking things so far. I think she said "no." She
afterwards produced to me a basin ; it appeared to
have been washed out. There were some very small
particles of meal adhering to the sides ; those par-
ticles appeared to have been boiled, but it was too
small a quantity to make any experiment upon. I
saw no marks of distress in her appearance; she
seemed ready to give help. On the next morning,
at half-past nine o'clock, I opened John ScOtt's
body. I examined Mrs. Scott's body. I should
certainly attribute their deaths to arsenic, or some
mineral poison.

Mr. Justice BAILEY addressed the Jury, an& said
there was a considerable defect in the proof; they
had not evidence of the result of the examination of
the meal, because the apprentice was not in attend-
ance, nor had they ally evidence of the contents of
the stomach to enable them to give any decided
judgment. There is another charge against the pri-
soner with reference to her mother.. Before that is
tried, the prosecutors will have an opportunity of
supplying the defects in the proof of this case. I
have conferred with Mr. Baron Bullock, and my
opinion is, that the safer course will be for you to
give a verdict for the prisoner, as that full examina-
tion which you ought to have is not now forthcom-
ing. It is the fault of the prosecutors that it is not.
Mr. Brown, the surgeon, here said, I went home
with the contents of the stomach. I assisted per-
sonally in carrying them ; I and my assistants went
together. We went together to Dr. Moore; we
there c:,:arnined them. Mr. Scott's stomach was
first examined ; the oesophagus and stomach were
very much inflamed. The fluids remaining in the
stomach of Mr. Scott were collected by themselves,
and submitted to the usual tests. A numerous set
of experiments were applied to real arsenic suspend-
ed in fluids. The arsenic was held in solution, and
the portion of the fluid taken from the stomach and
bowels of Mr. Scott underwent a filtre, and were
subjected to the same tests.
The prisoner, on being called upon for her defence,
said she knew nothing at all about it.
Mr. ARMSTRONG called

ilary Wood. I am the own sister of the prisoner.
I live at Liverpool. My father kept a bakehouse
and a jerry (chandler's) shop, at Bridge-street,Pres-
ton. My sister has been afflicted with fits the last
three or four years. lam sure her mind has been
very much weakened by them. There was no vari-
ance or falling out between my parents and my
sister. They always thought a great deal of her :
much more than they did of me. She was always
kind to them. I have known mz sister fall from
one fit into another, and have 5.0 nts in a day, and
be ill for aaweek afterwards. She has got up after
a fit, and gone to the fire-place, and raked all the
fire out. Sometimes she would say she had had
nothing to eat—she was starved. She has some-
times been two or three hours in that way, and
sometimes a shorter period,
Mrs. Alice Ben:lA.—l am a married woman, and
have been Mrs. Scott's neighbour for seven or eight
years. We were intimate. I have held the pri-
soner many times whilst she has been in fits. She
has been in the Dispensary at Preston, and the
Manchester infirmary. I have heard both her father
and mother say they were afraid their poor Jane
would never be able to work for her living, she had
such severe fits. I never saw her other than kind
from Preston
effete
hereccotimonea
(twenty-one miles)
at my own expense.
to her parents, and they so to her.
alnldiaNa•

Thereoc e
tions. By what means the deceased John Scott
of mistake
w
nincieg;hthu bteitilNivusstan fcreosm the came to his deanthA:LiEfYbysaipdo,istohne, whether that poi.
re were three ques.
soll:lNl:asJuasttlimeeinistered by the prisoner wilfully and
v
accom-
panying circumstances the Jury were to decide whe-
ther mistake could be applied K) the present easel
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The third question was,
whether thO- saner, tif flee time, had her mind so
conduct ltheis tiu -,
impaired as to be deprived of the knowledge of right
or wrong, and did not know the character of the act
she was doing. By want of due caution they had
not the opportunity of hearing what was 'the state
of the meal-taken to Mr. Brown's house by his ap-
prentice; neither had they the means of knowing
what there might have been in- the contents of that
which was pumped up from the stomach. His
Lordship summed up very minutely : when he came
to Shorrock's evidence, he said that he rather liked
to look at the conduct of parties than at the evidence
of conversations. With respect to the prisoner's
not appearing distressed, he said that many people
felt inwardly very strongly, without exhibiting any
external appearance. When his Lordship came
to that part of Mrs. Berchell's evidence that re-
lated to the prisoner's fits, she fell into a fit,
and was carried away. In a few minutes, ho*-
ever, she was brought back apparently recovered.
His Lordship observed that there did not appear any
thing to show that the prisoner's mind was so im-
paired as to destroy the knowledge of right and
wrong; yet, though there was not a total want of
intellect, her fits might have produced forgetfulness,
and make her more liable to mistakes; and it ought
not to be forgotten that she had a fit on the Friday
preceding the death of the deceased, and there was
a possibility that the fit left her mind confused.

One of the Jury asked, whether she had not told
Shorrock on the Sunday night that her mother was
bad.

Mr. Justice BATLEY.—She did, but you are to
judge what reliance you place on the evidence of the
conversations.

','he Jury retired flr t?n m'nutec, and then
brought in a verdict of " Not Guilty.

William Robinson, aged 34, was brought up and
arraigned upon an indictment, and on . the
Ellencoroner'sßobinson, briso
inquest, chasing
chaVat hcimiauwighthtont, on the
hemurdelrstohr
of August last.,
Mr. BROWN stated the ease, and called
Betty Plimley, a young girl, who said—l live
near the prisoner at Hall Moor-end, in Claughton
Mrs. Robinson, the prisoner's wife, had been
poorly, and was getting better; I waited on her
because she was poorly ; I remember her husband
coming home the day before she died; they had a
violent quarrel at night; I was there at dinner-time
on the day she died; he generally came home to
dinner at 12 o'clock ; Mrs. Robinson went out fire
minutes before the dinner-time; he came home five
minutes afterwards, and asked where she was gone;
I said I did not know; he stayed in, ate his dinner,
and went out to seek her; came back and told me
he could not find her, stepped a little, and then
went ; half an hour after he was gone, Mrs. Robin.-
son came in, and went out afterwards; Robinson
came home at half-past four, and she came in about
two minutes afterwards; he said something to her;
I can't say what it was, but she went out, remained
some time, and he went to seek her, and came back
saying he could not find her ; he went out again ;
she came in, and he came in about two munnes
after her ; he asked her, if " such like carryinrgs on
would do ;" she never answered, but went up
stairs; I heard her say something to him ',Alen she
was up stairs, but I don't know what it was; he said
" if she said two more words to him, he would kill
her," or "finish her ;" I don't know Itether he said
"kill" or " finish ;" in a minute or two afterwards lie.
went up stairs ; I heard them both quarrelling, but I.
could not tell what they said ; I heard him strike her ;
I was at the stairs' foot ; I heard more than one
blow. She said, " William, hest thou very near
done enough ?" He said, " No, not yet." I beard
him strike her again more than once. I heard
something guttling in her throat; I thought it was
in her throat. I heard him "side" (shuffling) about
very much ; he came down stairs and walked two
or three times over the floor; he then went up
stairs, and I heard him drag something on the floor,
It seemed as ;f he was dragging a chair with a gre:at
weight in it. He then came down stairs and 'went
a milking,—he had a cow, and took the pans out.
As soon as ever he got out of the house, j went up
and saw Mrs. Robinson sitting in a elrair with her
head reared up against the bed-post. I went down
again and fetched up her son, who is F.;bout 12 years
old. The son went to the chair. I was a yard off.
He got hold of her arm, and said, "Mother." She
never answered, and I thought she was quite dead.
I went down stairs and fetched my sister Anne who,
is older than me. We then went up together, an,
my sister went to the chair, put her hand down; her
breast, and said "Ellen," but she newer an-
swered. We then both came down. The pri-
soner was out about half an hour milking. He
asked if I had been up stairs. I said no. Ile
went up himself. I heard him move something, but
I thought it did not seem a very great weight. He
came down in about a minute, and said, " Dear me,
Betty, our Ellen has tumbled down in a fit. She
has lamed the side of her eye against the bed-rail."
He asked me to come up ; I went up stairs with him,
and found the chair shifted a little. Her head was
hanging over the bed-foot rail. We came down
stairs, and he asked me to fetch Ellen Almond and
Grace Lambert. They live a little bit off. Before I
went for them, he told me not to sayany thingof what
I saw above stairs. I went out for them. Grace
Lambert came up, and Ellen Almond and I after-
wards. We all went up stairs where he was. I,
came down stairs again, and he came down, and said.,
" Oh dear, Betty, I have a pain at my heart," and
he took me to the buttery, and said, " Betty, these
women say I have killed our Ellen. Thou knowist
whether I have or not ;" and he asked me if I would
be a friend of his, and say nothing about his abusing
Ellen. Almond and Lambert went away, and I did
not stop many minutes.

William Smith, of Garstaug, surgeon, viewed the
body; the blows and thr strangulation were each
sufficient to produce death; pressure on the throat
would prevent crying out ;
bed, but never struck
of pressure on each side of the neck.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, " On Friday
ethoweu,erleagliuVi
daerrtrefie
nllgrdeedhaeetxrme:easerkthies,
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aggi
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dadhfr myo;na
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naee was
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time,nt
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camel
home 011 Saturday
her. I went to my work at morning, and when I
night, she was intoxicated again ; she began swear-
ing; said she had done more for me than my first
wife had done, only she had not brought four rotten
children into the world; and she rushed at me, and
began kicking me, and I struck her. I had no idea
she was dead; when I came back I saw she was
dead."
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of murder,
and Mr. Justice /3.11.Eit pronounced the sentence
of the law upon him, that he should be hung by the
neck on Monday next til he was dead, and that
afterwards his body should be dissected and ana-
tomized. His Lordship admitted that the prisoner's
wife had not been free from blame, but said that the
crime of which he was guilty—that of
mur-
dering the wife of his bosom—was as wicked a crime
as could be conceived. wilfully v

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SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NEW W,,
The Chronicles of the Canungate, about to appear fr.om oRKF4
the
pen of the Author of Waverley, are three in nunabo :
I, The highland Widow,
IL The Two Drovers.
111. The Surgeon's Dauglate74.,
The first two will, we are enabled 4,0 state, occupy the
first volume; and the last, the seeor
volume. The work
will be published by the end of rJetober. The Tales of a
Grandfather, which we atunr‘nced some time since by dig
same author, have made, considerable progress, and will
probably follow the ',Airouirle4, IQ curly es Nemcber,...
.literary Ga;:ettc,