Star.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

My washerwoman will be able to say whether she ever observed
it Wore. I have never blooded it, sad if these were my last
moments I had to live j should say it with a clear conscience.
The jacket has never been on my back since I left Stevlson's,
nor did I wear my covered hat, as has been said, on the Satur-
day evening. This is as false as GOD is true."
He uttered this with considerable fluency and
'composure. No look of terror appeared in his face,
but he seemed fatigued by standing in a crowded
Court for so many hours.—The prisoner then wished
Hallibone to be called again, to be examined as to
the time he entered the Lodge on Saturday night.
Hallibonew as called, and said he recollected Ste-
phen Epsom having called Hussey out of the room
of the Odd Fellows Lodge on the Saturday alter the
murder, to question him on the business.
Larkin was called up again; he said, that on the
14th February he heard Hussey and Hazleton had
absconded from the Tiger's Head, he went there and
found the information had been incorrect, as Hussey
war there; and on being asked about money, he said
he had got it by a legacy of between 60 and £7O,
which, on inquiry, proved to be correct. He received
legacy on the Wednesday after the murder.
Mr. Serjeant LENS, who sat as Judge in the cri-
minal Court, then summed up. This was a case
which deserved attention from the Jury, and he was
happy to see that it had received it. The Learned Ser-
jeant had said that the evidence of circumstances
was stronger than testimony, but still it must de-
pend upon testimony. Though the evidence was
long, it might be brought within a narrow compass.
The circumstances of the murder could not be doubt-
ed ; but the question was, were they brought home
to the individual at the bar ? The time within which
the murder must have been perpetrated was nearly
fixed. The murders must have been committed be-
tween the hours of eight and nine o'clock. The dc.
ceased was a man of regular habits, and went to bed
before ten o'clock. The supper was prepared ; the
potatoes were in the oven ; the water was boiling ;
and the table-cloth was about to be laid on the table.
The Jury had heard a circumstantial account of the
state in which the bodies and the house were found.
It was not necessary to detail them. There was al-
most no doubt that the woman was coming to the
door when the crime was perpetrated, and that Mr.
Bird was in the attitude conjectured. The Learned
Judge then weft over the evidence, with great int-
partiality and discrimination. He charged the Jury
to make up their minds, and pronounce their consci
entious conviction, however fatal it might be to the
prisoner at the bar.
At twenty minutes before ten o'clock, the Jury con-
sulted upon their verdict, and in about six minutes,
and without withdrawing from the box, founil a yr+
dict of'.Grilty.
The Clerk of Arraigns then called on the prisoner
in the usual form, to know if he had any thing to say
why sen!ence of death should not be passed upon him?
The prisoner, in a fat:he-kg accent, and vi:th a
pate and agitated courter.ance, said,
" My Lord!—any Lord:4—
The .1' I:D —" Cbtries I lussey, hare you any th:ng
to say:"
The Prisoner—‘• Yes. my-Lord. It is most awful
surely for my life to be 111-,.:; violently taken away
from me—to be suddenly to r. rrom racy hut'e family;
my relations and friends, for a crime of whir% I :tr.
not guilty. I know, my Lord, I dccrrvc my f.tte for
concealing the property; I feel I did wrong in taking
it; but I am as innocent of the guilt of murder, as
you, my Lord, who sit there. The ALNI.CIIITY
given me power to say this. lie has given me the
power of meeting him shortly with fortitude, where
I shall attest what he knows to be the ttuth. lam
prepared for death. I have made my peace with
Goo, as well as the small means allowed me enabled
me to do. I was long since told, indeed, that I could
not escape--that I must suffer. I now again repeat,
I am innocent of the murder—Gov knows it."

Mr. Serjeant LENS their prepared to pronounce thel
awful sentence of the law, which he did with great
solemnity and feeling. It was a painful duty to him
to attend to this day's proceedings, and the most
painful part of it still remained to be performed.—
After what the Cunrt hid heard to-day. and. after
the conclusion to which the Jury were .forced to
come, he wished the prisoner had spared the decla-
ration he made of his innocence. He hoped he would
still be brought to repentance and contrition for kis
crime, of which tilete could remain no doubt in the
mind of any reasonable man ; and in the few hours
which yet remained, that he would make his peace
with Con, from whom all disguise was ineffectual or
impossible. In this way he might secure pardon
above, while there was no chance of it here. Nothing
now remained for him but to pronounce the sentence
of the law, which was, that the prisoner be taken'
hence to the place from whence he Game, and on
Monday be carried to the place of execution, and
there hung by the seek till dead, and his body given
to be anatomized, and the Loan have mercy upon
Ins soul.

At tire conclusion of the sentence, the prisoner cast
rn anxious agonizing look towards the Bench, appa-
rently wishing again to addreis the Judge. He did
not do so, however, but retired under charge of the
officers without speaking. His composure and firm-
ness of nerve during the whole trial was remarkable,
and could only be explained on the supposition of a
confidence in his acquittal. If any thing could have
' affected him, it was the conduct of his sister and
brothers, who were so overpo-Nered by their feelings,
in giving their evidence, they could neither look to-1
wards him or the Court. His ,s:s:er especially seemed
overwhelmed, and wept bitterly. Dar ♦oice was so
stifled with her distress, that she could not be heard
by the Court. Oh her examination, a seat was or-
dered her, and her•depositions were obliged to be re-
peated to the Court and Jury, by a Gentleman of the
Bar who sat near her. Towards the evening the
crowd without the Court was immense, and their
anxiety to know the verdict extreme; but there were
no testimonies, either of satisfaction or disapproba-
tion, shewi: at the result. The trial lasted from ten
o'clock in the morning till near ten at night.