Star.
London, England, 1817-04-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILE r.

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CHARGE OP MURDER.
Yesterday 'alit Wild, aged 28, was charged, on the
inquisition of the Coroner, with the wilful murder of
her male bastard child, by tying a handkerchief
round the infant's head, and over its mouth and nose,
and thus sm uttering it, in the parish of St. Andrew,
Holborn. The first witness called was
Mary Walsingham, a charwoman, who lodged in
the same house as the pi ironer, where she had lodged
for four months. Witness had perceived the prisoner
to be in the family way, and on Friday, the 21st of
February, at twelve o'clock, she saw the prisoner at
breakfast with her landlady, Mrs. White. About
half-past two o'clock witness went again to Mrs.'
White's room, where she saw the prisoner, and clap.
ping her hand on her shoulder, said, " Jane, you was-
in the family way ?" Prisoner replied, " Yes." Wit-
ness said " Are yon now ?" Prisoner an; w ered " No."
Upon which witness asked her where the child was ?
and she said she hacegot it. Witness insisted uponl
knowing where it was, and prisoner went into her I,
own room, and turning back the pillow and bolster of
her bed, took the dead child up in her arms. It was
naked, except wearing a cap and flannel, and it had a
handkerchief tied across its mouth. Witness said,

" You hussey, you have murdered your child l" She
said she had not. Witness asked what the handker-
chief was tied in that manner fora and she replied it
was to keep the jaw from falling. Witness told her
that was not the way to tie it, and the pris,ner sat
down and took the hatadkerchief off. The handker-
chief came a little above the mouth ; it was a silk one,
but was not wet. Prisoner sat down, and witness left
the room to fetch a parish Officer. The child was
quite warm. The prisoner passed as a single woman.
Witness saw the body of the child aitei wards. and
could not discover any marks of violence upon it.—
She knew it was a custom of women to tie something
round the jaw soon after life was extinct.
She was re-examined by Mr. CURVIOOD, but no-
thing new was elicited. The witness gave the pri-
soner the best possible character for humanity and
general conduct.
Elizabeth White slept in the next room to the pri-
soner. but did not hear any child cry in the night of
Thursday or the morning of Friday. About seven
o'clock on Friday morning witness saw prisoner, who
appeared indisposed; she had been so a few days.—
,About ten o'clock witness asked prisoner to come and
help her to wash, and she said she was very poorly.
In about an hour witness went to prisoner again, who
was in bed, but said she thought she should soon be
able to getup and assist her. Witness went into, the
room again about two o'clock, when prisoner was
washing in •another room, and witness, upon turning
tip the pillow, saw the head of a child; sopa which
she went to her mother, and, in consequence, the last
witness iuterrogated the prisoner in the manner she
Lad already stated. When Mrs.Walsingham (the last
Intatss) called prisoner " a murdering huseey," pri.
boom said, " she had not murdered it; it died soon
after it "was born." Prisoner, in the course of the
same day, attempted to leave the house, with a bundle,
bdt witness would not let her go. Prisoner said she
want to go, because they said she had murdered
the child, and she did not.
.14012.0v;5h, one of the Overseers of the parish,
took the prisoner to the workhouse, and an theway
asked her why she tied the handkerchief round the
child's head t She answered, it was to keep its jaw
from dropping.. Witness asked lief what time she
delivered herself of the child I and she answered be.
tween four and five, or between Ave and six-o'clock
• in the morning, for she heard the watchman crying
the dine. Witness asked her if the child cried when it
was born She said it did not.
James Taylor, a surgeon, act ompanied the last
witness to the lodgings of the prisoner and examined
. the'body of the child. Its cap and flannel were taken
off in his presence : there was no appearance what-
ever of external injury on the face and neck,and no
• Pmtenion or appearance denoting violence of any
)rind. He afterwards opened the body, and thought,
from the appearance of its lungs, that it had not'been
. barn alive; the lungs were collapsed, and if it had
been born alive it. most have died instantly. Upon
re examination the witness said, the lungs did not
appear ever to hate been been inflated.
J ihn Vincent, a surgeon, confirmed the testimony
of last witness. was decidedly of opinion, that
the function of respiration had never been duly per-
formed; that the child, in fact, had not been born alive.
The prisoner, on being asked if she wished to say
any thing in her defence, answered, as well as she
was able from the nppreuion of bar feelings, in the

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negative.
.14r. Berm Wooer, in summing up to the Jury, re-
marked, that by the statute 21 James I. it was enacted,
- that, although the child could not be proved to be
born alive, and the mother concealed the child, she
would be equally spiky of a 'wind offence, unless the
Flamer could, by one witneaff prove the child to have
been burn deed. The Legislatttre; istivitever, wisely
eonsidering this law to be too oppreasi re, repealed the
statute thirteen years ago ; and in its stead, enacted,
that it ought to he lawful for a Jury to find, in case
it should appear in evidence that the infant was se-
-creted, either by burying it or otherwise, the prisoner
guilty of conceding the child, thereby subjecting her
to a discretiosery punishment in the power of the
Court, not exceeding two years' imprisonment. In
order to convict the prisoner of Murdering the infant,
the Jury must be satisfied of 'two things s Ist, that
the child was bon alive; and if, this be distinctly
proved, then, Idly, whether, after it was so born
alive, she wilfully murdered it? The Learned Junes,
gave it as his opinion, that neither of these facts bad
been mode outs and as so the point of COMMONS('
it was for the Jury to *tether the birth of the
child was wilfully sectitadf
After a short consideration, the Jur/ acquitted the
;Amer of the *hole cbarge.-.During the trial the
prnouer seemed much affected, and the-Court al-
lowed her a char in consequence.
Dow, gay and- Charlotte Buds were indicted ca-
pitally for a highway robbery, by violently assault-
ing John Ward, end taking from his person *men
Li Bank of England notes, and some silver.
The protestor was a mariner; and it appeared
on his examination, that on the 18th of February last,
alt*t having biee at. Drory-buie Theetre, be went
fume with the female prisoner in 01d-street, gr„
Lake% accompanied by another man. lie bad
oat boa fangbefore tie prisonery and another

man (Haryat, who was innvicted at the last Old'
Bailey Sessiont), came into the room where the pro-
secutor was, and forcibly took the Bank notes and
silver stated in the, indictment from the fob of hil
breeches. With this booty they made off, and the'
prosecutor immediately went to the watch-house, and'
informed then of the robbery. An Officer imme-
diately went in search, and a day or two afterwards
found the prisoners at their lodgings, in Ball-alley,
Caolden-lane. Kelly being informed of the reason
why he was apprehended, opened the window and'
jumped into the street ; but he was taken in Golden.
lane, from the accident of having fallen down: The
female prisoner was taken about ten days afterwards.'
While Kelly and Haryat were taking the money from
the prosecutor, Charlotte Bryan was not present, but
bad gone oat of the room, saying she was sick.
. The Jury retired for a short time, and returned a
verdict of Guilty against Dennis Kelly, and acquit-
ted Charlotte Bryan.
Charles Burney and Charlotte Dexter, were indicted
for stealing six glass decanters, and other articles, the
property of William Hammond. It was stated in
evidence, that the prosecutor kept a public-house,'
and that the prisoners called there and stole the pro.
perty out of a cupboard. Verdict—Nut Guilty.
Samuel Chapman and Edward Jones, were indicted
for privately stealing in the shop of Janes Ilbery, 20
quires of foolscap paper, his property. The prose-
cutor was mot aware that be had been robbed until he
was shewn his paper by a police officer, who saw the
prisoners and another youth, in the middle of the
day of the 213th of March, in Wardour-street, Soho.
The other lad went into weevil shops, and asked if
they wanted a box ! The officer at length discovered
a bundle upon Chapman, which proved to be the
property of the prosecutor. Chapman. in his de-
fence, said he found the bundle of paper.
The Jury Acquitted both the prisoners.-
William Rains was charged with .stealing in the
dwelling-house of Lord Say and Sele. two silver
candlesticks, a suutler.tray, and a pair of snuffers,
value £l5, the property of his Lordship. The-bot.
ler of his Lordship discovered the prisoner going up
the area steps, and found the property upon him,
upon which he asked fur forgiveness; Verdict—
Guilty, Death.
Mx Clayton was charged with picking the pocket
of Charles Cox, of a pocketbook, containing a se.;
bank note, and a ring.
John O'Gorman said, he was walking a little way
behind his friend, the prosecutor, and saw a man take
the pockit-book nut of the prosecutor's pocket, give
it to the prisoner, and run awal. The witness col.
' hired the prisoner, who upon flits threw. the pocket-
book on the ground.
The prisoner put in a written defence, to the effect
that he did not know the person who gave him the
pocket-book.—Guilty.
John Chamberlain was indicted for burglary in the
house of Thomas Clifford, of Hillingdon, and steal-
ing a counterpane and other articles of furniture, his
property. in the evening of the 29th of March. The
house was entered in the absence of the prosecutor,
and the counterpane was sold the same night in a
woman who kept a, shop in the neighbourhood, who_
identified the poisoner as the person of whom she
had bought it.
The prisoner said he found the counterpane.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned
Juan, acquitted him of the burglary! but found
him Guilty of stealing to the value of 19s. in a
dwelling-house.
Robert Webley, the who was charged en the
Coroner's Inquest, with manslaushtern , in killing
James Gulliver, eras not pot on his trial to answer
the Inquisition, it being quashed for informality:—
This was the ease of the turnpike-man on the New-
road, Mary-la-Bonne, who received a blow from the
prisoner, in disputing about change, which occa.
stoned his death.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
H. Hart, a Jew, was round guilty of keeping a
disorderly house in a court in H..lborn. As were
Mary Davis, Sarah Smith, and another, of a like of-
fence, in a street in the same vicinage.
S. Lanai, a pickpocket, who has been tried several
times, and once convicted, was charged upon an in-
dictment with hustling an old man, assisted by four
others, and stealing from his person a pound of sugar
—Guilty. Sentenced to seven years

About half past seven, on Thursday evening, dn.
ring the absence of the housekeeper, the house of Mr.
Denman, Cobourg.row, Westminster, was forcibly
entered by picklock keys, and robbed of all the linen
and wearing apparel to a considerable amount.
Some robbers broke into' the Dissenting Chapel in
Moor-street, Soho, on Thursday night, and stole the
service plate, prayer-books, and all the portable ar-
ticles they could lay their ands upon.
At the Cork Assizes D. Word and J. Lowy, were
put to the bar, charged with the murder of Colonel
C. Newman, at Newberry. near Mallow, on the 11th
of November last t also with a burglary at the same
time and place. After a long -hearing the prisoners
were found Guilty, and sentenced to death.
Ltuanicz. Aran, lg.—Yesterday a matt of the
name of 1). Ryan, haviug a warrant which. we un-
derstand, he surreptitioudy received. from a .distant
*gist:ate, went to the neighbourhood of Doonas to
execute it, when a scuSe ensued between the panies,,
io which a yarn; =RD of excellent character, ass*
T. Hayes. was lulled.
,
CLostru. Aears.l2.-4400dAy evening, aman it
the name of COU400; was waylaid on his recant from
the fair of nodes. 'and murdered -by the blow of a
stone on the head. His character is said to have bona
that of an industrious and well-disposed man. •
RUPTUUD PATISPTS, aCC.DII,,COOPZIR,
sad Co. of Charlotte House, opposite the Rev. Row.'
lend Hill's Chapel, have e
established a Medical Board
Woo4Mockditvottroet. ada Mew Bond street
tame Plipitiss d;e
Alreabejn et the Royal j
14184011. et thirty years experience. reside, aoll irbereCttfetbol
Mensbon of the Board alternately attend. That dolma& have
beim restored to koala by those, without esalthigisag, Is is.
diapalaws, after brttpitels had tailed. !airtime is the bard,
tamm, sod body, ulcerated throat. Ike. Ste. are tbs.
of improper treattoort.—Mesers. Coom Meares. sod are
41 MO

48.44 dady, atDoth Douro, seta . .at ethers are
rids doors K each Molests, and private rooms for limbs.—Adoles
ratter at Charlotte House, Illackfriars, Tuesday, Thursday, and
iroaday ; sod at Woodcock House, Monday, Wadesalay, Fri.
day, and Sundays, mg Twelve o'clocke—••• The Piles and,
Ilona aired without autting:—....er Rutter :1 Patlismalliad
at Markets How al Mondays ald Fdlia". and a I=
Heise so Wednesdays, mho ate mod et
Morton on asientilis and anatomical prielths, *dope Nisi.
cal operatise or the ban szscotariss.