Star.
London, England, 1827-08-06 00:00:00

" If it did good, GOD give
we must say nothing about it." The pr ismer:had*
the powder from out of the parlour, where I heard
open and afterwards lock a boa, of which he all,
kept the keys; when he came out of the parlour,
brought the powder in a cup, and he give the gin and
water to the child, who drank it, and he afterwards put
the cup in the closet; about eleven o'clock the child
grew convulsed and sick; it seemed in great pain, and
was very much purged; it died about four o'clock;
the prisoner went to thecow-house, and lay down; we
had some talk about the child; he said it died of. the
heart-heaves; it was buried°. tionWedisuley ; its body,
legs, and hands, were black: ' • ,;•-•
Cross-examined—The priest baptized• the two'chil-
dren. The ceremony was in Latin. I. am not quite
certain that the prieSt mentioned the names" William"
and " James." I had a child about a year before I
lived with the prisoner. It is called Mary Jane: That
child is now with my mother, at Kirby Thorn, and
quite well. I have said that the prisoner was not the
father of the thildren. I have sworn them to a man
named Birkett, and a warrant was granted against him
in Westmoreland. Birkett was then at Crooley. I left
Westmoreland when I went to live with the prisoner.
Birkett followed me as a sweetheart ; bat nothing: im
proper ever passed between us. The prisoner wished
me to swear that Birkett was the father of the child,
and promised to marry me if I would do so. I never
said to Donald that I did not know whether the prisoner
was a man or woman; but I did tell him that Birkett
was the father of the two children. It was after the
inquiries about them that I said the prisoner was their
father. The prisoner spoke to me on the Ihronday.after
the birth of Abe children at Mrs. Robioson's, in a whis-
per; Ellen etas there; she is my niece. She was talk.
ing to two men who were in the room, all the time the
prisoner was there. One wits John Maynard, the other
was Cornelius Robinson; Robinson was old and deaf.
The prisoner whispered that they sleight not bear hie].
I had told Mrs. Robinson that the prisoner wanted me
to smother the children, and I begged of her to listen
when he came. The prisoner, before he went away that
night, told me not to harm the children, for they should
be able to bring them up. Ile said this in the bearing
of Mrs. Robinson; he wished them both good night.
The powder was white, like-magnesia. Ellen is a mar-
ried woman, and is my niece. Alter tke children were
buried, Donald, the overseer, removed me to Westmore-
land. He told me it was rumoured the children had
been put away, and I then told him all about the white
powder. I have had quarrels with tie prisoner since
the death of the children, but not because I was jealous
of Eleanor. I never threatened him that I would bring
a charge against him it he would riot marry me. 1
would marry him now if he would have me. •
Anne Hammond deposed, thht the prisoner came for
her on the afternoon of the Monday when the child died.
Its nails were black. She-saw it. die, and laid it out.
She was at the burial, both of this and of the other child,
at Bower. Anne Hamilton seemed me her tongue after
the child was buried. it wassmuch swollen.
Cross.examined,Wnoess was the mother of seven
children.

'it if it did_

Wisest a child dics of con, ulbions, its nails
and lips sonietiraes aura blacks
Joshua Monkbouse, a grocer and druggist at Bar-
nard-castle, stated. that the prisoner came to his shop
in the beginning of last May twice for some mercury,
but witness would not let him base any.
Cross-examined.—The prisoner said he wanted it for
a warble on a horse's back. Witness recommended a
mixture

which would *Li as wall. and which the pri-
goner took.
Jonathan A wdi was present when the prisoner's.house
OH searched ou'tl►e day be was ,apprehended. A box
was broken open in the parlour. At the touosn of it
there was a sosisll white powder. Witness took s ime of
iit upon the point of his knife, and tasted it. It blistered
Isis tongue.
Cross-examined.—Wittess knew the prisoassr Mild
ever heard any ill of him. He holds a farm of dawn
ivy acres.

Thomas Donald, constable and overseer of Luting-
ton, apprehended the prisoner, and 'oak 'bins to wit-
ness's house. The prisoner said he wss clear, and did
not fear. The next morning my wife asked hie what
kind of a night he had? He said he had never passed
such a night before; if the children were taken up, and
poison found in them, it would be hard indeed that he'
should suffer for %%hat Anne had given them. Witness
gathered the powder together. and carefully put in a
paper, which he delivered to Mr. Miles Lawson.

Cross-examined.—The prisoner came to witness the
day before he was apprehended, and complained of
Anne Hamilton. He said she had first fathered the
children upon another man, and now laid them to him.
—The prisoner made no resistance when he was ap-
prehended.
Mr. Miles Lawson was present when the powder was
taken out of the prisoner's box; he received the powder
from Donald, and kept it carefully until the Coroner's
Inquest was held, when he gave it to Mr. Kiplin; wit-
ness produced a bond from the prisoner, indemnifying
the parish from the expense of maintaining the children;
witness had examined the partition between the two
rooms in Robinson's house; there were a great many
holes in it; a person on one side might easily hear a
person speaking on the other side; the head of the bed
was close to the partition where the holes were; the
partition was lath and plaster.

Martha Sayer, sister to the sexton at Bowes, proved
the situation of the place where the child was buried.
William Walton was pre,ent when the graves were
opened and the children taken up; the children were
opened, and their bowels were given to him ; he put the
bowels of one child in a basin, and of the other on a
plate, and locked them up at Mr. Rudd's, where the
Inquest was held.
Mr. Thomas Kipling. surgeon, of Barnard Castle—
Witness on the Bth of June opened the bodies of the
children at Bowes ; he applied several tests to the con-
tents of the stomach ; he applied ammoniaco nitrite,
which produced a yellow precipitate inclining to orange
colour. It appeared to witness to detect arsenic. 'llle
stomach was inflamed enough to cause death ; he attri-
buted the inflammati-:n to arsenic. He placed the con-
tents of the stomach between two plates of heated steel.
White powder came upon the plates. He also tried a
solution of the sulphur of copper. bat that did not produce
any arsenic. Witness received the powder from Lawson
on the 9th of June. He made the same experinapis wi:h
it as he had done with the contents of the stomach, and
with the same effect. He saved part of the contents of
the stomach, and sealed it in a bottle, which he gave to
Mr. Davies of Manchester, with the remainder of the
powder he received from Lawson. If a child were to
take arsenic, it would produce paln,leat, vomiting, and
thirst ; it would also turn the body black.
Cross-elamined-2Atsenie is volatile; if put Into gin