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London, England, 1820-07-24 00:00:00

some cloth. Her clothes night have done it, but I
can't say.
By the Courr.--I saw no blood near the wall or
the drawers. The second blood near the bottom at
the side of the bed.
Mr. W. Sharp.--.I am a surgeon at Bradford. I
was called in by the Coroner, to examine slw body of
Mary Oldfield, on the 29th of June. It was lying on
two tables in_the back parlour,. On the body I ob-
served a variety of bruises ; one on the outside of the
right thigh ; one on the lefrbreast, small ; one on the
left cheek ; one on the left arm, small, below the
elbow ; one external and one internal wound on
another part. I saw no other !nark. The wound of
which he had spoken had broken the skin ; it had not
been made by a sharp instrument." None of these
could have accounted for death. Considerable quan-
tities of blood had escaped from the wound. All the
bruises, save that on the right side, might have been
occasioned by falls. The wound could not have been
occasioned without falling on a stick or post. The
same fall could not have occasioned all. I opened the
head; I found a bruise•wound on thq, left side; a
small bruise on the front, but no wound. On the
right side, lying immediately on the brain, I found a
large quantity of extravasated blood escaped from the
vessels, and pressing on the brain. In my opinion it
occasioned death; I have no doubt at all of it. The
bruise had been on the opposite side ; it might have
occasioned the extravasation. The • skull was not
fractured. I believe a person after that extravasation
could not have moved from- the bed-room to the
kitchen. It must have been a very hard substance
indeed that could have produced the injury ; the fist
I think could not do it. There must have been a
considerable impetus either of the body to a hard sub-
stance, or of a hard substance to the body. •
Cross-examined by Mr. WILLIAMS.—The traces
of blood had exactly the appearance of falling from
one walking.; they might have fallen from the parti-
cular wound mentioned. The cause of death un-
doubtedly was apoplexy, to which persons addicted to
liquor are more disposed than others. 'The bruise on
the left, and extravasation on the right side, might
have been occasioned by a chair; a fall on a chair after
the extravasation might have occasioned the bruise,
The bruises did not appear to be all of the same date.
.fte•examined by Mr. Jourts.—lt was not so likely
to have happened by a fall. The extravasation was
confined to one spot. Apoplexy without an external
wound would• probably shew a fulness of all the
vessels. In this case there was so much blood extra-
vasated that the vessels'must have been emptied.

By the COURT.—I mean by the drops coming from
one walking, that the body was in an upright posi-
tion: Force of any kind might have occasioned the
injuries.
Wheatley was recalled, and stated, that the head
had been on the frame of the chair, the temple on
the frame. It was lying rather to the left side, with
the' knees bending up. There was nothing on the
floor to cause a tumble—it was a level flagtfloor—
there were no holes and no carpet. She could not
have fallen as I found her, for her head could not
have fallen into the frame, to my thinking.
Cross-examined by Mr. HARDY.—I think the head
would have been on the seat of the chair if she had
fallen. There was blood between the body and the
door of the kitchen.

By the COURT.—The bar was in the front of the
chair. I think the bar was too near the seat for the
head to have fallen as it lay. She was fully dressed,
excepting her shoes and cap. I did not see the cap.
Mr. Sharp was again examined by Mr. WIL-
LIAMS.—The position, if I understand Wheatley cor-
rectly, was such as it would have been if she had
been thrown violently against the chair. The mark on
the head was in the form of a star, not longitudinally.
By Mr. JONES.—If•it had been a fall, she must
have been running violently.
By the Counr—There were many bloody foot-
marks in the kitchen: according to appearances,
they were a woman's.
The prisoner, who was decently dressed in black,
said he had found the back-door of his'house open
when he came home. I found her lying on the bed,
with her clothes on and her face red. I saw the sort
of state she was in, and took her by the shoulders to
make her rise : she fell between the drawers and the
*all, head foremost. She did not offer to rise. I
lifted her up, and then she made another tumble with
her head against the wall : she got up and went down
stairs. I took my coat off and made the bed. I went
to bed, and put the door to, expecting that she would
come back. I slept, and knew nothing more.
John Ingram—l am a bailiff. I was at the•l{orse
and Groom on the evening of the 27th June. Mrs.
Oldfield was very much intoxicated.
By Mr. Jowas—She served in the house all the time.
Alice Broughton—l was in the habit of waiting
on and nursing Mrs. Oldfield. On the 28th, I saw
her foot-marks in the kitchen. Her stockings were
bloody inside.
By Mr. Jorms.—l washed all the things. The
doctor ordered me to hide away the stockings and
other clothes as soon as possible. It was Mr. Sharp.
It was on the morning of the 28th, the day before
the Coroner sat. I rather think no stockings were
produced before the Coroner. I was not in the bed-
room till it was washed: Mr. Oldfield's boys washed
the floor. I never did wash up any blood in the bed-
room, on my oath. I never told so to Mr. Gibson.
I was not in the room before noon. My master had
.the key in his pocket all the time. I was not on the
stair at all. I saw the apprentice boy fetch water to
wash the room. It was about eleven or twelve o'clock.
I washed blood off the steps with a strange man,
with a wet towel. It was about nine or ten; no-
body told me to do it. Oldfield was in the bar :he
could not miss seeing it. I should not know the'
strange man if I saw him. He scraped with a knife,
and [washed. I don't see him in Court. He was
about two hours there. I never saw him before or
since. I saw by his apron he was a comber.
By Mr. Wiwasts.—l meddled with nothing till
the constables and the doctor bad seen them. Many
had seen her and her stockings before I came.
. By the Counr.—The blood had come in at the top
of the stockings.. They wcre all bloody.
Mr. Sharp, recalled, said, " I gave no orders to
hide away or wash the things."
Here the witness Broughton fainted, and was car-
ried out of Court.
By Mf. HARDY.—Mr. Sharp had not particularly
noticed the stockings.