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nothing to have caused death. From the nature of the
ncised-wound, blood mutt have immediately flowed at
the time it was received.
By Mr. Baron GILAIIA3L—A fall down a Bight of stairs might
have produced a similar wound, if she had fallen on anything sharp.
A commas die would not have produced such a cut.
Nothing of Importance was eHeited by the cross.ezaminatioe of
this witness.
Re-examined.—Frons the appearance of the wound,
it was impossible it could have been inflicted on the
Sunday. A person having received such an injury on
the Sunday could not have sat up and conversed as the
witness Pinario had described the deceased to have
dope, on the Thursday. The injury of which the de-
ceased had died must have been inflicted after that day.
An alter surgeon, who had examined the deceased
along with the last witness, expressed his concurrence
in the opinion given by him, except in two points.
The first was, he thought that a person who had re-
ceived such an injury on the Sunday might have sat
up and conversed on the Thursday. It would depend
on whether the effusion of blood on the brain was
slow or quick. In the second point, he thought that
tilt incised %Gond and the fracture could not have been
inflicted at the same time, or by the same blow. It must
have been by another injury or fall. From the ap-
pearance of the incised wound, it could not have been
inflicted on the Sunday before ; the fracture might.
The fracture would have caused death: the incised
wound, unless followed by inflammation, would not.
The witness Hodge was recalled, and said, that the tiles on which
the prisoner said his wife fell, were common flat hearth tiles.
Elizabeth Butler, one cf the searchers who saw the body, said,
that the prisoner Lyons told her that the name of deceased was
Mary Connor, and that she had died of a brain-fever. The witness
made her report accordingly. This was the case for the prosecution.
Welch was now asked what be had to say? He, in a very firat
and collected tune. repeated the story about his wife having fallen
down stairs, and received the kart in that way.
The female prisoner declared to GOD that she was wholly inno-
cent of the crime laid to her charge.—Some witnesses were now
called, who gave the prisoner Welch a good character for humanity.
At four o'clock Mr. Baron GRAHAM began to sum
up the evidence, the reading of which occupied his
Lordship nearly two hours. Having gone through the
whole, be called the attention of the Jury in particular
to the circumstances of the prisoner Welch not having
called in any medical assistance to his wife, if his story
about her fall were true. He also remarked on the
nature of the wounds which the deceased had received,
and the utter impossibility of her having received them
in * fall on the Sunday before, and having conversed
with the witness Pinario on the Thursday, without sry-
ing a word to her on the subject. The case was, he
must confess, a strong one against the male prisoner, but
he did not mean to say that it was impossible to believe
that the accident mentioned by the husband might not
have caused the wounds. That was not impossible,
but undoubtedly it was extremely improbable. The
case was u•lt at ail the same with respect to the woman.
However criminal she might be in concealing the cause
of the death, still thdte was no evidence to spew that
she was aiding and.assisting in procuring it. The Jury
would take the whole of the circumstances into their
most serious consideration, and if they had any doubt,
they would give the prisoner the benefit of it.
I lis Lordship concluded his charge at about ten minutes to six.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Patrick
Welch, and found Ellen Lyons, the female prisoner,
Not
the usual proclamation having been made in Court,
The RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence on Welch
in a manner the most solemn and impressive. He ani-
madverted on the peculiar enormity of the prisoner's
offence under the circumstances of hie case—on the
reasonable expectation that his wife might have formed
of finding in him who had proved to be her destroyer,
het protection and support in the hour of danger—and
on the shortness of the period which must elapse be-
tweeu• the passing of this sentence and the ignominious
death by which the law required he should expiate his
crime. After seriously and earnestly exhorting the
prisoner to employ the remainder of his existence ►n
player, the RECORDER pronounced sentence of Death,
and ordered him for execution on Monday next.
The conduct of the prisoner during the trial was
tiectly cool and collected. - Indeed, on the part of
the man it had the appearance of an almost indifference
to what Was going on. The woman seemed extremely
attentive to the proceedings, thoueh she did not ap-
pear to be at all affected by any of the details respect.
ing the death of her unfortunate relation. In the early
part of the trial, her manner had something in it
approaching to levity ; but as the case proceeded she
became more serious, and towards the conclusion
evinced a considerable degree of anxiety.
While the Jury we►e out of Court, the prisoners were
allowsni to retire: On their return the woman was
quite changed. She was obliged to be held up by two
men. There was a degree of-wildness in her look, and
she appeared to be labouring under that kind of tem-
porary delirium which often succeeds a fainting fit.
The prisoner Welch returned to Court with his former
composure. When the verdict was pronounced, a
person in the dock told the woman that she had been
acquitted. She did not seem to be conscious of the
alteration which that fact made in her condition Shc
wa. taken out of Court in a man's arms. She is a
in al and father pretty woman, and looks much
younger than the air given in the c 4lendar—twenty-six.
Welsh looked very earnestly at his fellow-prisoner on
hearing the verdict of Guilty against him, and a kind
of flush passed for a moment over his countenance,
but it was only for a moment. He immediately regained
his previous composure, which never left him during
the address of the RECORDER, or the passing of the
awful sentence. Oa leaving the Court, he said in a
mild but firm tone, " Indeed, lam innocent." He is
a genteel-looking young man, apparently not more
than twenty, though entered on the calendar as twenty-
four years of age.
The trial, particularly towards the close, appeared
to excite a considerable degree of interest, and the
Court was most inconveniently crowded during the day.
We understand, that shortly after the prisoner's
removal from the bar, the confidence that he had-main-
tained tt youghout the trial erai:ely forsook him; and,
on being locked up in his cell, he requested an interview
with Mr. Wontoer, who afterwards visited him, .and
to whom he • made a full confession of his guilt, and
stated that the blows which caused the death of the
deceased were laic ed by him with i scrubbing brush,
while she lay in bed asleep.
Comma* or Luearass—Mary Keau, aged 45, for stealing a
bat; Thaws Kelly, 15, and William Riley, 12, for ;ceiling a
handkerchief from the person; William Stephenson, 19, for Stealing
two table cloths, Sm. Thomas Adcock. 0, for stealing two sove-
reigns ; Sarah Bann', MI, for stealing two sheets and other articles;
Margaret Brown, 0, for stealing 18 yard, sat printed cotton;
Thomas Dover, 92, for stewing i pair of trowsers ; Alexander
Bonder; el, mad George Schwartz, 90, For Stealing a let of harness,
a flute, Ice. Edward Cleavland, IS, for stealing a cane, four books,
&c. Jams Green, 21, for *Maine A bird Cage and other articles;
and Cassandra Gaucheron. 30, for stealing a napkin.