Star.
London, England, 1807-02-21 00:00:00

TRIALS FOR MURDER.

Elizabeth Godfrey, a woman of the town, was capi.
tally indifted for the wilful murder of Richard Prince,
in Mary-la-Bonne Parilh, on the 2sth December lafl,
by giving him a mortal wound with a pocket knife in
the left eye, of which wound he languifhed and died.
It appeared from the tetlimonv of Emily Biffet,who
cohabited with the deceafed, that the Prifoner had
come to lodge, tour days before the unfortunate event,
in the fame houfe, and in a back apartment of the
lame floor. That two nights before the tranfation, itf
confequence of fame altercation between the prifoner
and a man the had brought to her apartment, and
who complained of being t obbed of 18s. the deceafed
had called in the watch, and lent the p:ifoner to the
watch houfe, where the was detained all night ; that
on Chtifimas day, about five in the afternoon, as the
witnefs and the deceafed lat at tea, they heard a tap
t their room door ; the deceafed opened it, and tie-
ing nobody, doled it again. Immediately another
•ap was heard; he went a fecond time, when the wit.
nets Aced him why he did not take the candle ? It
was the prifoner who rapped, and faid the wanted to
fpeak to the deceafed, who went out to the landing
place. The prifoner afked him why he troubled his
head about fetching the watch to take her up fome
evenings fince ? and the witnefs immediately heard
her exclaim "tale that !" The deceafed inflantly came
hack into the room, Paid he was a dead man, and
pulled out of hi, left eye a knife which had been (luck
into is by the pi hinter, which he threw upon the flor,r.
It appeared bent and bloody:-., Mr. Scott, the mailer
of the houfe, ran up (lairs, and afked how the prifo-
ner could be fu wicked as to do fuch an a& towards
a fellow creature ? She anfwered, ,‘ It fervcd him
right." Witnefs scent for a furgeon, and the deceafed
was conveyed to the Middlefex Hofpital, where he
languifhed until the 18th-of January, and then died.
The deceafed was a Gentleman's coachman. Witnefs
knew of no previous acquaintance between them :
they had fome altercation the day before, at a o'clock,
but witnefs never Paw her afterwards, until the deed
was perpetrated. _

William Scott. the landlord of the lodgings, fuf-
taincd the evidence aa tar as related to him, and faid,
when he (poke its the prifoner, immediately after-
wards, the had. cafe knife in her hand. After the
prifoner had beeteliberated, on the previous day, from
the watch houfe, the witnefs advifed her to think- no
more of it ; but the faid, though the had no man to
take her part, the would not put up with it, nor let
it drop in that manner.

On his crofs examination, he faid the prifoner corn•
plained that the deceafed had cut her hand, and heard
fomething in the houfe about her getting a warrant
for him at Bori•firect.

Mr. Barry, Surgeon of the Middlefer Hofpital,
who attended the deceafed, proved that the wound in
his eye was the caufe of his death.
The prifoner (poke at fome length in her defence ;
Paid the had been beaten and ill treated by the de-
ceded, who fnatelted her patten from her hand, aimed
two blows at her'head, and wounded her with it in the
arm, and that at tl.c time of giving the wound, he had
tiruck at her; when the ran into her room, caught up
the knife in the dark, not knowing what it was, and
(truck the deceafed, without any intention to kill him.
Mr. JWIICC HbATH (rimmed up the evidence, and
the Jai y found the prifoner—Guilty.
I'he RrCORDSR immediately pronounced fentence
of death upon her, to be executed on Monday. Im-
mediately all her fit mnefs and recolleaion feemed to
fail her, an,i the appeared bordering upon a (fate of
phreray.

THE MURDERERS OF MR. STEEL.
After the former criminal had been removed,
Owen Haggerty and jobn Hz away were brought into
Court.

70/in Holloway, alias Oliver, alias Long Will, aril
Owen Haggerty, alias IVigerty, were indifted tor the
wilful murder of John Cole Steel, on the 6.h of No-
vember, 1802. The indiEtment charged the rt t.,
nert in one•count with murdering the deceafeJ by 4
blow on the head with a flick, and in another count
with flrangling him with a leather belt pallid round
his neck.

They advanced boldly to the Bar, and liffeced to
their indiament with much apparent apathy. The
countenances of both difplayed, that they had arrived
at that climax of villainy, at which every moral feel-
ing is completely obliterated. Theirs was the bort id
look of hardened depravity alone ; far diflant from
the efforts ufually made to conceal the confcioufnefs
of guilt, and equally different from that comFofure
which is the fuggeflion of innocence.
Mr. GURNEY flitted the circumftances of the cafe
to the Jury in a very clear manner. Mr. ALLEY and
Mr. GLEAD were alfo Counfel for the profecuticn.--
Mr. Antrim. was Counfel for the prifone'rs. The
, following was the evidence adduced on the part of
the profecution:
Mr. Mayer, the brother in law of Mr. Steel, Rated