Star.
London, England, 1825-09-17 00:00:00

NA VAL INI ELLIUENG E.

Arrived off Dartmouth, the Hanover, from Rio Janeiro.
Off Dover, the Tertius, Lavrrr, from Teneriffe.
The Fame, Rmrar, from Miramichi, was driven on shore near
Wexford, during a gale, on the 11th inst. Crew and materials saved.
FALMOUTH, SETT. S.W.—Sailed the Jane Stewart,
M`Kasims, for St, Domingo • and Hope transport, for Cork.
PLvstooru, Sen. 15.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Hope,
NORRIS, from New South Wales. On the 24th of April, off the
Ray of Islands, New Zealand, spoke with the Master and part of
the crew of the brig Mercury, having been boarded and taken pos.
session of by the natives of Whangarroa Bay, and with much diffi-
culty escaped witb their lives. Vessel and cargo entirely destroyed
—Master and crew returning to Port Jackson in the Pocklington,
Captain JONES, all well, with about 130 tons of sperm oil. Sailed
the Henry Davidson, —.--, and George, DAVIDSON, for London.
Poarsuouru, Se 16.—Wind S.—Passed by, the Ganges,
LLOYD, from Madras—sailed 26th March.
DEAL' Sm. 16.—Wind S. W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Moraleja, Wrung, from Bombay ; John, Sin, from
Jamaica; Wilson, ---, from Quebec; Nestor, WaA man, front
Honduras; Roiimrs, from ►
Rio de Janeiro; Coventry,
PURDY, from Jamaica; Peter Proctor, BROWN, from Dominica ;
Baltic Merchant transport, from Cowes • Aurora, BOATMAN, from
Bilboa ; Lustre, WOODFORD, from Quebec; and Ann, Smonseas,
from Oporto. Sailed the Castor, GRANT, for the-South Seas; and
Kingston, Balmer, for Halifax.
LisourrooL,.. Sen. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Gleaner,
BLANSHARD, from New York; and the Quebec packet, DITCHIURN,
from Quebec.

OLD DAILEY-TIM DAY.

MURDER.-
Cornelius SoNivel*, aged thirty-three, was indicted upon the Co
toner's Inquisition. for the wilful murder of Jane Earl, with whom
he cohabited, on the 2d of August last.
Mr. ADOLTN us stated the case for the prosecution, and called
Nary Mikis, who stated, that the prisoner at the bar lived in
White Horse-court, Tumulil-street, Clerkenwell. On the evening
of the 2J of August, the witness saw the deceased and the prisoner
come up,when he knocked her'down, and kicked her several times,
in the street; on the deceased recovering herself, she went into a
chandler's shop at the corner of the court. The prisoner dragged
her out by the hair of her head, again knocked her down, and
jumped on her twice. Witness said, " Pray Con. don't kill her."
Nothing material was elicited in her cross-examination.
Charlotte Davis, a single woman; lives near Tutnmill street, she
corroborated the last witness's testimony. •
Cross-examined—Has known the prisoner about a year, and the
deceased much longer; she did not fall down the steps, neither did
the prisoner stumble ; the witnessbad not drank anything that day.
Susan Welsh stated. that she saw the prisoner run into a chand-
ler's shop, and drag the deceased out by the hair of her head ;
he then kicked her, and pulled her down some steps, and then
dashed her within the door of their residence like a dog; he shut
the door and broke a chair beating her ; he gave her many blows as
many as nine ;it was a light chair. While be was beating her she
was on the ground, quite senseless; she was in that state when be
dragged her down the steps. Witness ran after him, and advised
Jim to govern his passion, but he threatened to serve her the same.
Witness was looking through the key-hoJe when he was beating the
deceased ; he also attempted to strangle her with a handkerchief.
Stephen Hound, a respectable looking man, proved that be kept
the chandler's shop in Turnmill-street, alluded to; about half past
eight o'clock on the evening of the 2d of August, the deceased
rushed into his sbop in an agitated state, as if anxious to conceal
herself; immediately after the prisoner followed, and pulled her
out; hearing a scuMe outside, the witness went out to protect his
windows, when he saw the deceased stretched on the ground, and
the prisoner stamping on het body ; the prisoner then took the de-
ceased in his arms, and carried her away.
Robert Smith also saw the deceased kicked and ill-treated by
the prisoner.
Mr. John Cooper, a surgeon, deposed to the deplorable state of
deceased, and described the extensive bruises, &c. on the body.
This closed the case on the part of the prosecution.
The prisoner was now called on for his defence, but declined
saying anything, and left it to his Counsel.
Mr. Justice Uri-I.2°mA summed up the evidence; and the Jury
consulted for some time, and at length found the prisoner Godly
Manslaughter.
The prisoner was then called up fur judgment, and the Re-
colitis,' sentenced him to be transported for lite.
Yesterday, Patrick Welch, aged 24, and Lllen Lyons,
26, were indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Welch
(wife of the ptisoner Patrick), in the parish of St. Giles,
on the 26th of June last, by striki-g her on the head
with a hatchet. There was another count, in which
the prisoners were charged with causing the death of
deceased by throwing her down a flight of stairs.
Mr. ANDREWS stated the case to the Jury. The
Leal ned Gentleman, with great minuteness and per-
spicuity, detailed the whole of the circumstances CDR•
netted with this very curious case, and called the fol-
lowing witnesses to •support it.
Mary Donovan, ex +mined by Mr. CaEswint, —I am
a married woman. I live at No. 19, Church-street, St.
G les's. My husband is a wood-cutter. I knew the de-
ceased many years She wits married to the prisoner,
Patrick W. lch, about *is years ago, in Ireland. I was
present at the marriage. They lived here as man and
wife. 1 knew them living at 20, Chun ch-street ; they
lived happily together ; I know Ellen I.yons; si,e came
to this country from Ireland al i:int five months ago ;
she was a first cousin to Alm Welch; are came and

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death, the prisoner told me that he and deceased had
been walking down stairs, and that she fell and was hurt.
James Hodge.—l am a journeyman carpenter, and
work for Mr. Thomas. of Bloomsbury. Welch also
worked for him. On Tuesday, the 28th of June, the
prisoner came to his seek at Turnstile. This was the
house where he lived. It was Mr. Thomas's. He came
to me and asked, if I was afraid to see a sick person?—
I said, no; and he took me up stairs to the attic, I
there saw a woman, whom he described tctillt as his
sister. Si:e was lying on her back on the bed. I
thought she was dead. He took hold of her hand,
which was clenched, and opened it—it closed again.
I asked him if he had any medical assistance? and he
said that Mrs. Thomas's doctor had attended her.-1
always understood from him that this woman was his;
sister. He told me that his wife had gone to Ireland
that his master hid advanced him some money for
the purpose of sending her there. He did not tell me
of any accident having happened to the woman I saw.
Welch told me that he had told his master of his sister's
illness, and that he would call to see her. On Friday,
when the woman died, Welch was sent for. When he
went up stairs I heard a noise, and on his return, I
asked hina what that eras? and he said it was among
the persons in his rcom ; that they had found a "scratch
in her (the deceased's; pate." and that they talked of
sending for the her Ile. He said that they (meaning
the women up stairs) had found a paper of &stir, which
he had got from his mistrea to stop the blood.—
Nothing farther passed then ; hut on the same day he
told me, that on the Sunday before he had get a little
more to drink than usual, and that he lay on the bed,
and that whilst he was there, his cousin (Lyons) awoke
him, and told him that hit sister (the wife) had got
his coat on and gone down stairs, and he went after
her, and in bringing her up, she kicked against the
stairs, and threw herself and him hack on some tiles,
and that that was the cause of the scratch on her
pate. I examined the tiles one by one, and found
some of them broken, but I saw no blood on them,
nor did any blond appear to have fallen on- the stairs.
The prisoner Welch also said, that his sister had
spoken to him that morning, and said she wished him
to follaw h:r to the grave, as he was her only friend,
her husband being abroad. 1 asked him was deceased
a married woman ? and he said she was, but she had
parted from her husband.
Antoinette Pinario.—l am the niece of Mr. Stewart,
who keeps the Ship wine-vaults, in Little Turnstile; I
went to see the deceased the day before her death ; she
was very ill, and told me she was very poorly ; she did
not say she had fallen down stairs ; I always took her
to be prisoner's (Welch's) sister ; he told me so. On the
Thursday evening I asked him whether the woman up
stairs„avas his wife or his sister? he said his sister, that
his :wife was in Ireland. When I was up stairs I saw
no blood in the room.
Anne Waldie.—l am a servant to Mr. Thomas ; I
remember the Monday before deceased's death; I saw
the prisoner Welch ; he said he was going id Mr.
Thomas to ask leave to go home for the day, as his
sister (the deceased) was very ill ; that she was taken
very ill after Ineakfasr, with one of her fits—that in onel
of her fits she had scratched her face, and hit herself.
On the next morning, he said to me that he had had
the parish doctor to her; but he said it was too late—
that she was now dying, an i he could be of no use. On
the Friday, before twelve o'clock, lie came to me and
asked ft* to-give hilts .a little flour to stop the bleeding
of the scratches; be had told me before, that one of the
scratches, was on her cheek, and the other on her tem.
plc ; I gavehim a small quantity, about a spoonful,
and he . said that would be enough. On any of those
occasions he never ,mentioned her saving received any
wound in the back of the head.
Thomas Kennedy—l am landlord of the Black Horse
.public house, St. Giles's, and brother to Mrs. Donovan
(the first witness); in consequence of what I beard, I
went to see the body of the deceased on the day on
which her husband was going to have her buried; I
put the lid of the coffin on one side, and put my hand
to the back of tile head, and it went into a large cut,
and my hand was quite bloody; I then said to the hus-
'band that there must be something wrong, and that I
would forbid the funeral; the husband said that it was
no affair of mine—that his wife had slipped down the
bottom of the stairs and had hurt herself; the next day'
I examined the stairs most carefully, and saw no trace
of blood en any of them; I examined the sacking under
the bed, and found it stained with blood, and flour over
it; there was a great deal of blood on the bolster and
on the cap; there was flour over the blood on the bed,
but none on that on the bolster ; some of the clothes of
the deceased were found stained with blood; there was
also blood on the floor.
The beadle who examined the place along with last
witness, and who took the prisoner Welth into custody,
corrobrrated his statement as to there being no blood
on the stairs, but there being strong. marks of blood on
the A )or and bed; he added, that it appeared to him
that the laor had been washed, and flour laid on it
between the sacking and bolster a jacket was found
stained with blood, and two woman's caps covered with
blood; in a cupboard, covered with shavings, I found an
old cloth, which appeared to have been used as an
apron; it was stained with blood; in the same place,
and under the shavings, I found an iron hammer, and
in the cellar below a hatchet ; there was no mark of
blood on either ; the sacking, the jacket, and caps were
now produced ; they were all marked with blood.
Mr. Blair, a surgeon, residing in king-street, Bloomsbury, stated,
that he newer attended the wife of the prisoner in Turnstile. (Pri-
soner bad stated that be bad Mr. Blair to attend her.)
Mr. Andrew Tweddale—l am assistant-surgeon at
the St. Giles's workhouse. On the 3d of July I exa-
mined the bOdy:of the deceased. There was a wound
at the buck a the head about two inches long. I exa-
mined it more particularly the same day, and opened
it. There was an extensive fracture at the back of the
skull, beginning at the left ear, and extending across
the head, and terminating at the base of the head on the
opposite side. This was in addition to the wound I
have mentioned. The wound was an incised wound as
if cut with a sharp instrument. I put my finger to it
and examined it. The axe now produced would have'
inflicted such a wound. It was not a wound that would
have been inflicted by a fall down three or four stairs ;
such a wound, if given with force, would be likely to
have produced such a fracture as 1 have described. I
f‘uticl an artery of .the brain cut by a part of the bone
of the skull being driven in; there had been an effusion
of about four oencet of blood between the skull and the
dare mater. From the appeal'ance of the wound, Ido
not think it could have beets inflicted mote'than twenty-
tour. hours before death had ensued. I dissetted•the
head ; the injury I have describe., was the cause of
death. I opetued the Body, aid found no organic dis-
ease ; there WAS some slight disorder in the bowels, but

lived with them at Church-street; Y can't say whether
they 41 slept in the same tied or not; froth 'etinich•
street they went to Little Turnstile, Holborn; iilshflinea
months before Mrs. Welch's death ; I called on her the
Tuesday before her death.; she hid been ill before Utis.
I had asked her what was the matter wi.h her? she
complained of her head, and I heard the cleigyaban
say she was deranged ; she old me she was jealous of
Nell Lyons, her cousin; I told this to the husband af-
terwards, and he told me she did not knew what Ae
was saying, a; she was folish I tr l I him thit the
wished to go back to live in Church-street, as she Was
jealous of her cousin Nell. He told me not to notice what
she said, as she did not know whit she was sayirig.
On Friday I heard of her death. I went down to
Turnstile, and I saw the body. It was on the bed.
This was between one and two o'clock. I saw Mrs.
C •rkorey and Nell Lyons there, (she had lived at M. s.
Corkorey's, in Church.street). I helped Mrs. Corkorey
to wash the body ; when I went to the head, I found
the cut. I asked Nell Lyols how it happened ? and she
told me that she fell down czai-s on the Sunday night.
and I said I would not wash her any further till I says,
Welch. I wished to have the head moved a liter
higher up on the pillow, but Lyons kept her hand cm
it, and said, it was very we'l as it was. I asked her
why she kept h ,r hand there? she said she (the deceased)
was pwging out of her mouth the' day before. I then
sent her for Welch. He came, and I asked WM how
it happened? and he told me that he was drunk on
Sunday night; that she (tine iseJ) had followe I him
down, that he was trying to carry her up, that she put
her foot on the stairs and fell back with her head on
the tiles, which were lying at one side of the dcvr.
I after this assisted in washing the b idy. I found a
cut on the head. with a piece of lint laid in it. There
was blood in the hair. It was on the back of the heat°.
I said I would go and alarm the " searchers." Nell
Lyons said the blond had come from her head on h.t
Sunday night when she came up stairs. There was the
appearance of flour on the head. I was present when the
searchers came next morning. Lyons was present also.
—The scare ers asked Lyons what was her illness? and
she said that she had been ill a long time, but she did
not know what was the matter with her. She did not
shew them the cut. I went on the Sunday to attend
the funeral, but it was prevented by Mr. Kennedy; he
went to the coffin, and put his finger in the cut in de.
c.-ased's head, and then said the funeral should not take
place that day ; Welch said, he should not prevent li'm
from burying his own wife. Kennedy then went for
the beadle. When I went to see the deceased on Tues-
day, she was speechless.
Cress-examined by Mr. BARlM—Prisoner had lived
happily with his wife as far as I saw ; I saw her only
twice after she left Church-street ; the mai Jen name of
the deceased was Mary Connor. I don't know that it
is a custom in Ireland for married women to be bur;ed
in their maiden name ; they sometimes go by their
maiden name after marriage. I never heard from de-
ceased that she had got an illness in her head in her
lying-in. 1 think deceased was a little flighty. It is'a
custom in Ireland, in many places, to bury in two days
after death, and sometimes the next day.
Re-examined.—Deceased always went by' the name of Weleh
since she was married.

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Margaret Corkorey.—l have known the prisoner
Welch for more than a year. He and his wife lodged
at my house in Church•street; they appeared to live
happily together ; Nell Lyons came to live with them
about March last ; I and my husband slept in one bed,
and the two prisoners and the deceased slept altogether
in another bed in the same room with us. I saw
no
disunion between them before they left my place. I
called to see deceased the Sunday befnre her d ath.—
She had called on me about a fortnight before ; she
was in a low state of health; she appeared to me to be
a little out of her mind ; it was about four o'clock .on
Sunday evening when I called ; Welch met me and
my husband, and he asked us to go to see his wife, and
we went ;we found her sitting up an the bed. She ap-
peared a little better. Welch was tipsy. On a former
occasion she told me she was jealous of her cousin Lyons.
She was out of her mind then. I saw her on the
Tuesday before her death. Stir was then speechless.—
, Lyons was present. In lifting her up we found a hand-
kerchief round her head ; Lyons said it was pt round
her head, because her head was light ; she did not
say a word at this time about her having met any
accident on the Sunday; I went on the Friday ; the
husband sent for me; when I went, the dec.astd was
speechless; she was " in the last minute;" I was there
when she died; Lyons and the husband were in the
room when I came; but he was not present at her
death ; I sent for him when she died, an I told him
that she was dead; when washingthe body, we saw
the cut on the head; I asked Welch the cause of it ? he
said he was tipsy on Sunday, and was stretched on the
bed.; while he was lying down, his wife gat up. and
Gwent down stairs, and Lyons followed her, and called
him to bring her up ; he caught hold of her vs bring
her up, but she kicked against the stairs, and fell back
against the tiles; I saw a spot of blood on the neck of
the deceased and on the bolster, and Lyons said it was
caused by her having purged out-at the mouth; while
we were washing the body, Lyons kept her hand on the
back of the head ; I wanted to turn the body, but she
said there was no occasion; on this Mrs. Donovan (the
first witness) turned the boJy, and found the cut. She
then called out that the woman was murdered, and
fainted away. There was blood on the cut, and in the
hair. We then refused to wash the body until the
searchers were sent for. They did not come till the
next day. Before the Friday neither Welch nor Lyons
ever told me of any accident havisig:happened to d. -
ceasid. They said nothing 'abouv,st 431 I discovered
the cut.
Cross-examined by Mr. BARRY-• 4 was in the habit
;nhae wsllTbs ninadartaeffretchteioyniatite
of visiting
IWsaelwchsba.nidhheiswwasifege
my house; he appeared anxious while she was ill ; I
attended the deceased on two occasions of her lying-ia;
she had a still-born child each time ; she was never
very well from that period.
James Stack—l am acquainted with the prisoner
Welch ; I was in company with him on Sunday, the
96th of Jane, the Sunday before his wife's death ; he
was not very drunk, bpt was in liquor. He came to
Corkorey's, and asked me out to take a pot of beer ? we
went, and from thence to Wekh's house ; he asked me
Ito go and see Mary (his wife)? I saw her; she was very
ill in bed; Welch and I then went out; he told me
that he and his wife and Nell Lyons used to sleep in
one bed together, and that he thought Nell was with
child ; I did sot ask by whom, but I supposed it must
he by himself, as they slept in one
.bed togethei,—
(This produced a titter among some of the delitati fe-
males whortmained in Court during the trial, in which
the prisoner 149nsjoiPed).—On *44erday after her

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