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London, England, 1818-08-13 00:00:00

withih die•ptewribcd lirt*i, were out of .th• .
aVkl an ptrvari who shouji veiitare to.a?reilhfreir,
wouli bs •consi.lere3 ha;AarCesi..,,iped isiitg the
lezal custody of the NlirshAl..
.Nlr..ln,ttre hii chard
observed, that the qUesti.in of I INV in the c,se
whether what are calle3 The Rules of the King's
Beach Prisoi, were, in point of law. a prison?
whet ter a person in custody within those Rule;

guilty- of an offence azainst the law in dvarting
therefrom? Nov that the Rules of the King's Bench
prison- were a prison, and that a person having. the
bentfit of those Ilales, ;mas wrilty of as offence
against the law, if he should escape therefrorn,,his
Lordship had not the' figlites doubt in delivering
,o :he Jury to be matter of law: and CT IlliitAvious
reason, that the sla..shal would be liable to an aCtinn
of eicA,,e, at the salt of his pri.one-'s- creditor, if he
sulrered him to depart the Rules. If the Rules were
not to be considered as the prison, the necessary
consequence must be, that. that privilege most, for
the future, be taken away froni persons confi tea is
such custody. his Lordship had no hesitation, in
saying, that when the defendant had the heaefit of,
the Rules, he wa; in law in prison, and in deparling
those Rules, he was guilt.), of an escape from pri;on.
The escape was admitted, and therefore the Jury
must find him guilty. •
The Jury accoidiiigly found the defendant
and ht was sentenced- to four Months' impriionusent
in the county gaol.

CROWN iIDR.
CHARGE OF' CHILD MURDER.

• .
Miry Stone, aged 29, was charted oft
.the oath of
her Sister, Hirriet ilAmpton. with having wilfully
murdered a fema'e childEof which she (the prisoner)
was-the *other, in the month of September,, 18i6,
at Riclurrond. •

The Prisoner; who was a most interesting looking
young woman. was plated on the scat near the mirk,
as she appeared too weak to support herself in the
usual place where prisoners stand to be arraitrnea.--.
She seemed q lire dejectef:Md'wons down her fr.',
twes which were reniarkabiy intelligent aad exp..-es•
sive, iadicated extreme anxiety arid emotion. On
being arraigned in the usual manner,' and .called on
!or her plea, she replied in a feint beet tone
of voice " Not Guilty."
• -..

The pmsectitrix, Mrs. Harriet Ilarniit• en. was then
put into the witness's box. She appeared to be a &v.:
young woman, about 19 or 2.) years of sage.. On,
casting her eyes downwards to 'where the prisoner
sat, she burst into tears, and esclsimid,'irlth great
apparent anguish, 00 my sister, Mys.l-tei ' The
prisoner fainted during her sinters egizatitin? but *as
speedily recovered; the latter, after having been
taken out into the open air, was soon sufficiently well
enough to give her evideace, which she dil with leis
apparent embarrarsment than Might, have' been ex-
pected. Her evidence was as in:lows:
In the month of September, 1816, I think on 'he
25th, 1 slept, as was my custom, with my sister,
Mary Stone. About two o'clock in the morning she
said she was in extreme pain, and shortly after she
was delivered of a female child ; it cried, and I want-
ed to go out and tall in assistance but she would
not lit me. Very shortly after the child weal) .rti, it
might be about half-past two or three o'clocli on the
'mottling of the 25th September, my sister 'forced hir
hand intcrthe infant's moat', and elteltedlt, artithett
thrust the body into a pan under' the bed. 'She after-
wards threw herself os the bed, and got up in a ma.
meat, as if to do something ; I then said I'd cry oafs
an call for somebody to come in ; 'my sister replied
that if I attempted to tie so she would kill me at die
instant, and then kill herself. 1 was therefme so
frigh ened, that I desisted Irons attempting to give'
any alatim. My sister left' the body io the-pat on
that night, .and ea the foliewingene made up a fire
in the room, and tried to beets it, but the flesh ..nade
such a crackling noise that she vas afraid k %valid
be heard, and the took it off the•fire and replaced' t
is the pal.- The next morning she took it down'
stairs, and burnt it in the copper to ashes—a 4 then
cleaned the chpper out, and threw the ashes on the
dunghill..
Cross-examined by. the Cbsissos StRJEA nT;-lam
the sister of the prltinner. lirst told this storyahouts
twelve months ago, or,' shortly aftei I. got married.'
I let it out one Welt in mzsleep, and on being eines:
boned the following morning by stay husband, Ipm-
fessed the truth to him; my husband is ncitshereto-
day. My sister kept the house we at ,Rich
mond ; it was a small house, having oily three.
rooms, and being thinly partitioned, s-.) *et what
passed within may be heard by the reighbou.-s. My
sister and I always slept in the same bed ; my t-teet-
, heart then, but husband now, slept in the opposite
room to oar's ; a man of the name of Davis Kenyon,
rand my brother, generally slept in the third room:—
I never sa'd my sister,, who was an unmarried wo-
man, was pregnant before this matter took plate. ' I
don't know that any body noticed it, for she gene.
rally slept in bed for a time before she lay in. When
she killed the child, I *as afraid to alarm any body,
lest she should carry her threat into 'execution of
making away with us both. My sister used use rory
ill since this transaction; her ill usage coiiiiientei
about a fortnight after it happened ; she then thre.ate•
cited to turn ase out of doors, anal wished that every
bit 1 pet aa nay mouth might choke me. She dis-
liked my marriage, though I never bad the smallest
ill-will to her, or expressed myself to that effect to•
any body. I never said to Mrs. Wilkes that I'd ruin
the prisoner, or that I wished her dead to get the.
£soo'out of the Bank. I never said that as I was
not of age, I could not get the money yet, or hoped
that she might die first. I believe we are entitled to
£5OO, which is in the Batik ; Messrs. Smith and
Walton are the trustees for my brother, sister,, and',
self. My brother told my husband of our harlug'
this property, but I never mentioned it to hi
cause I did not know exactly how the money-40dt
My sister had a child before this last, it is a grown
boy, has always lived with her, and she treats it well.
She reduced her last child's bones to ashes, and.threw
the ashes on the dunghill—this Was whet I said be-,
fore the Magistrate.—On a Teenage ta.thiawitaess's
depositions, her words were found to nave been," My;
tiger raked the bones out of the fire, and threw them
on the dunghill.”—The case for the prosecutihn being
• closed, the Prisoner was called on for het defence,

but sbc declined saying any thing.--Tbe followin
witnesses Amy called on her behalf: . .

Mts. Elisabeth Wilkes said, that in Septtynber.
1816, she lived at Trentham, where she knew the