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last words I came out in a passion, and flew at bias, and
said." George, begone from my house, do you intend
to commit murder?" He got up to go away. but she
cried out, and he c +me back and bid her hold her
tongue, and said he would have her shifted very soon.
I said, " It you dare to hurt a hair of their beads, I will
follow you both to York, and hang you both." The
prisoner then went away, and never came to the house
again. Anne was in my house a fortnight all but a day;
she then went away with the children. They were then
b - h well.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serpent JONI'S .—I am a
Catholic. The children were baptised by Mr. Ellis.
He pronounced their names in English, the rest of the
service was Latin. On the Monday night, at the time
the prisoner and Anne were talking, Eleanor Thompson
,was in the room with them. She was a good bit from
them ; she Will near the fireside. I listened in the next
room. There are many holes that go quite through the
wall where the bed stands. I was close to Anne's head.
Anne was lying in bed when I ordered the prisoner
,away. I, was very angry with him. I was very cross
with her after be was gone. I never left the children
while they were in the house. I slept with the dear
;,babies every night. (The witness here burst into-tears).
I told the neighbours what .1 overheard, and I sent
Tommy Cleasby to tell the overseer that I wanted to
see him, but he never came. I did not see Mr. Donald,
the constable, until after the children were dead. I beg-
ged Anne not to go to the prisoner's house, but to go to
a magistrate and take what would be allowed her, and
then go to her mother's. There never was a tenderer
mother over her children than Anne was whilst she
was with me.
Re-examiner.—The prisoner said he should have
liked to have hid the younger child called " George,"
elifter himself. It was always called James, the other
„child was called William. The latter part of the con-
• wersation i overheard was louder than the first part. I
heard horn the first. The prisoner was kneeling near
the bed. His head was close to the place where I stood.'
By Mr. Baron HULLOCK.—The walls of the partition
• are in the same state now as they were then.

" Anne Hamilton, examined by Mr. STARICIL-4 WWI
never married. I went to live with the prisoner ms,
May-day, 1826 ; some time after that I was witlfehild
by the prisoner; I continued with him until Martinmat
last; I then went to my mother's, and stayed with het
until after New-year's day, and then I went to the Oen.
who placed me with Mrs. Sarah Robinson, at
Lartingtons lavas pot to bed on the 19th of April, and
delivered of two male children ; they were baptized by
"?. Mr. Ellis in my presence; they were named William
and James ; the younger was called James until the
prisbner sent for me to his house ; the prisoner then
gave him the name of George, and he was called George
up to his death. The prisoner was at Mrs. Robinson's
• the night I was confined ; he came to my bedside that
night, and asked how 1 was, and' whispered to me,
"Now make away with the younger boy." I made
him no answer. He came to me the next Friday even
ing, and asked me." Why I had not dense according to
his words, and made away with the younger child ?" I
told him I had not. He asked if I had riot had an op-I
portunity of
:doing it? I said, I hod not.; he then t
me I must smother the younger child that everting ;.•
could not give an answer so that. He came again tits
next day,-Saturday, and brought me souse 'victuals. ai4
reproached me for not having made away with Jail*
and said, " Make away with him to-night, and send
one word to-morrow morning." He told meto lay upon
-the child, and if I could not get rid of it that way, to
• put its head under the pillow, and lie upon it. He
'tame again on •Sunday afternoon, but we were not
much alone then. He did ask me then why I had
not put away James? I said the woman had slept
with me. lie then said, if 1 did not smother James
that night, he would bring me no more victuals, but
would le*ve me on the parish, and they might
do what they liked with me. He came again on the
Monday evening, with Eleanor Thompson. I was then
up. He desired me to go back to bed, and I did so.
He then came to me, and said, he had had his uncle
from Bowes, and if I did not make away with the child
he would sell his stock and go off to the Indies. 1 said,
the woman slept with me again. He said, that was no
reason why I should not have done it. I said, I would
have done it, but I was afraid the woman would have
caught me. Witness here protested that she never meant
to harm the child ; she only said so to pacify the pri-
soner. She continued :—The prisoner then asked me
to give up the elder child, and to shift with the younger
as well as 1 could. Mrs. Robinson then came in, and
asked me what I was crying about? The prisoner an-
swered, that I was afraid of being put in prison; but he
would take care uf that, for he would take me to his
own house and provide for me. Mrs. Robinson told
the prisoner to ge from her house, for he made it mi-
serable. The prisoner did not come again while I was
at Mrs. Robinson's, where I stayed 13 days after my
confinement. The prisoner then sent Eleanor Thomp-
son, his housekeeper, with a cart for me and the chil-
dren, when we went to his house. That was on a Wed-
nesday. Nothing then ailed the children. George was
buried that day fortnight. On the Sunday before he.
seemed convulsed, and in the afternoon at eleven
o'clock he was ill, but not much so. His mouth and
finger nails turned blue; he was. very ill during the
night. 1 had not mirk enough lot both; I fed them with
boiled bread and milk. The prisoner, on the Monday
morning, asked me hoW the child was? I said it was
very ill. I then we, t with the prisoner a-milking, and
when we came home, he said, " Poor little thing ;
the bairn is worse." He then got some boily in a
tea-cap, with some white stuff in it, but the child had
none of it at that time. It was between six and seven
when we went a-milking, and we might begone three
quarters of an hour. When we returned, Eleanor
had the child upon her knee; the prisoner poured the
boily out of a tin mug into a tea-cup; there was some-
thing in it, parent which cleaved to the side of the cup,
and part swam on the top of the boily ; Eleanor asked
him " what that was that he was going to give the
child?" He said, " Nothing that would hurt it; it
was what they might all take; he should be sorry to
hurt the child." He gave me a spoonful, and I swal-
lowed-it, and he put the cup to his mouth, but I could
not tell whether be tasted it or not ; the prisoner then
threw the contents of the cup behind the fire, and rinsed
it out with warm water; what I took caused my mouth,
tongue, and throat, to swell, so that I could scarcely
swallow, and made me a little sick; the soieress con-
tinued a week; after the child was dead, 1 shewed my
tongue to Anne Hammond ; the prisoner came in again
from his work about ten o'clock that morning, and asked
if the child was not better ? and he went and got a sup
of gin •hnd water, and put some white powder in it;
asked him what the pywder was? he said it was given
hint by a doctor, for a pain in his own breast; he said,

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