The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-12 00:00:00

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lived in the lower part of the house. -Ott Friday night last the
prisoner brought doWn the child in her arms, apparently unwell,
and was about to leave it in her (witness's) room. Witness
said " Your child is too ill to be left here, take it to your own
apartment." The prisoner answered, "B
—t you, I will leave
'it ; it is my own child."
• Mr. Laing.—Ai what time did this conversation take place?
Witness.--Exactly at seven.
Mr. Laing.—When did you last see the child?
Witness.—At nine o'clock on the following morning. I then
received intelligence that the deceased was very ill, and un.go-
ing to the prisoner's apartment, 1. perceived her lying on the
floor. While inquiring after the girl, I saw her feet just below
her mother's petticoats, and ultimately discovered that the de-
ceased was fastened to thei prisoner's body, and was quite dead
The child was naked, and stie bad considerable difficulty in, ex_
tricating her.
Mr. Laing.—Did you heat any screaming during the Friday
night or Satutday ?
Witness.—l did not.

Mr. Laing.-1-las the prisoner any other children ?
Witness.—An ether daughter fifteen years of age.
Laing.—Was the mother at home on Saturday last? •
\Vitness.—But a very short time.
Mr. Laing.—Was any one with you when you found the
child dead? _ .

Witness.—Yes, a Mr. Adams, to whom she confessed that
the child was dead. (Here the witness entered into a statement
of the most revolting description, and a thrill of horror pervaded
the office.)
. Mr. Laing.—lt is a most extraordinary thingthat'you should
have heard no screaming or alarm during the night.
Witness.—lt may be surprising, but I assure you I heard no
alarm.. The mother was a very violent woman.
Mr. Henry. Rawse Whittle, surgeon, of Nlyddleton-street,
Clerkenwell, stated that he saw deceased between two and three
o'ciciek in the afternoon. She was quite dead. He had exa-
mined the body externally and internally with other medical
men, during which they discovered a bodkin-case, of from ten
to eleven inches in length, forced,into her person. It had pe-
netrated.through to the gall bladder, and was the cause of her
death. _ _ _

Mr. Charles George Everard, surgeon, of No. 19, TySoe-
street, Clerkenwell, said that on Friday last the prisoner brought
the deceased child to his shop, and he treated her for inflamma-
tion, and advised her mother to apply leeches. The prisoner
conducted herself strangely, and said, " Give me some leeches."
He told her he did not give leeches. And she then said, "Give
me a pennyworth of nitre," and she left the shop.
Mr. Bower, surgeon, of Wilmington-square, attended the
examination of the deceased's body, and he gave evidence as to
the finding of' the bodkin-case.
• Mr. Cooper, a surgeon, corroborated the testimony of Mr.
Whittle. He imagined, in the first instance, that the child had
died of inflammation of tbe• lungs, and it was by mere chance
that he ascertained the contrary was the fact. On moving the'
body ioto a certain position, he found the bodkin-case 146
trusting. '
Mr.-Whittle here stated that the prisoner acknowledged td
hirdthat she forced the article into the child's person.
JOhn Archer, a very able and well-conducted officer in the G
division of police, deposed that he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. She told him that the child was very ill, and, knowing
that there was a virtue in wood or steel, she put the case and
some needles into the body. The child' having died, she placed
it under her clothes, and fastened it to her body, thinking to re-
store tier to life.
The prisoner here begged to be allowed to plead her, own
cause, and entreatingly, with good address, said, " I have a.•
xight to be heard in my defence."
Mr. Laing told her to proceed.
Prisoner.—l will not take-up much of your valuable time;
I own that the child was troubled with a sensation in the throat,
which was hereditary. She was unwell, and had been knocked
down by a boy named Barber, and hurt in the side. I went to
a doctor and obtained some nitre, and having purchased some
brandy mixed it with it and gave it to her. She then proceeded
with a rambling statement, and at length said that she found
the child dead, and she told a Mr. Walker, a friend of hers, that
Mary was dead. " I kneW," she continued, " that there was a
virtue in steel and wood, and pushed the case and ten needlesas
far as her navel to bring her to life."
Here the prisoner became very agitated and muttered some-
thing which was unintelligible.
Mr. Laing observed that there was quite enough to warrant
him in sending the prisoner before a jury of her country, and he
should commit her for trial for murder.
She was accordingly committed, but she will be brought up
again on a future day, in order that if any further evidence can
be obtained it may be added to the depositions.
The prisoner is a married woman, and has for some time been
separated from her husband, who has allowed her a mainten-
ance through the parish of Clerkenwell_
[We should observe that on Tuesday an inquest was held on
the deceased child, when it appeared that the surgeons had, on
further examination, come to the conclusion that she had died
a natural death, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly.
There is no doubt whatever of the insanity of the mother.]

Robert Potter, an evil and dirty-looking fellow, about thirty
yeais old, was next put at the bar, charged with the wilful mur-
der of Henry Pedley, aged forty.
There was such a desperate gang of ruffians followed this pri-
soner from St. Giles's station-house that it was much feared a
rescue would have been attempted, and it required a numerous
body of constables to keep back the mob.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar, stood with great confi7
dence.
James Potter having been sworn, said that he residedin
Lascelles-place, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, and is a Smithfield
drover. On Saturday night last, between eleven and twelve
o'clock, he was in Salutation-court, Broad-street, when the pri-
soner and his wife had a quarrel. The deceased came up and
interfered, begging of the prisoner not to illuse her. The ac-
cused ran into the house in which he lodges, and presently came
down with a large knife in his hand, which be flourished, swear-
ing that if any one interrupted him he would rip him or her
open. Witness saw him make a plunge at deceased with a
knife, and he instantly heard deceased exclaim, " Oh, misses !
oh, misses ! I am stabbed, I have got it here ;" and witness saw
the poor fellow holding his entrails up in his hands, as they were
protruding.
Mr. Laing inquired if Pedley was dead, as he had seen him
alive on the day before at the hospital and taken his deposition.
Inspector Jenkins, of the E division, answered that he had
died at 3 o'clock that morning of the injury.
Mr. Laing (to the witness Potter.)—Did you or any body
else quarrel with the prisoner prior to his wounding the de-
ceased ?

Witness.—l had a trifling quarrel with him, and he fought
with another person shortly before.
James Thornton, of Salutation-court, said, that he saw the
prisoner and a woman with whom he cohabits quarrelling.—
Pedley interfered, on which the accused left the spot and came
back in a minute or two with a knife, with which he stabbed the
deceased in the abdomen, and his bowels came out.
Mr. Laing.—Did the-deceased act violently, or did he only
act as it he wished to pacify them ?
Witness.—He did no more than advise them to make it up.
Mr. Laing.—You say you saw deceased fetch the knife; now
can you tell me how long he was fetching it ?
Witness.—Not long; just sufficient time to go and return
from his apartment.
Other witnesses corroborated this evidence.
Edward Davis, 74 E, stated that on Saturday night, near the
hour of twelve, he received information that a man had been
stabbed. He proceeded to the prisoner's lodgings, the door of
which was locked inside. He called out for admittance, but the
prisoner refusing, he burst open the door and secured him. He
Was lying on a bed, and his wife was in the room. When wit-
ness stated the charge upon whichlie had apprehended him, the
'woman remarked, " He did it, and I would serve any one in' the
same way that interfered with us." The prisoner, as soon as
witness had seized him, observed "1 know what you want me
for, and I will go with you." Witness produced a knife covered
with blood. He found it under the bed.
Edward Clements, 146, and Johnson, 156 E, confirmed this
evidence.

Mr. Laing wished to know if the prisoner was drunk at the
time he stabbed deceased ?
Inspector Jenkins.—He had been drinking.
Mr. Laing.—Was deceased sober ?
Inspector Jenkins.—He was, Sir.
Dlr. Laing.—Are there any more witnesses to bring forward?
Inspector Jenkins.—Yes, several, who have also been wound-
ed by the prisoner. One man has received a shocking cut on
his arm.
Mr. Laii.g.—Where is he?
Inspector Jenkins.—He was laid hold of on his way to this
office and taken away.
Mr. Laing.—ls the wound of a serious nature? • • ."1
Inspector Jenkins.—l believe it is.
The deposition of the deceased, taken by Mr. Laing, was
produced. It confirmed in every respect the evidence of the
witness Potter. _ . .

The witnesses were then bound over to give evidence against
the prisoner at the next Old Bailey Sessions.
Before his removal to Newgate he will undergo another exa-
mination, to afford another opportunity for any other witness or
witnesses to come forward.

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Emperfal Parliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS—WEDNESDAY.
Lord Denman took his seat, on the woolsack at five o'clOck
SCOTCH CHURCH.

Petitions for protection•to the Scotch church were presented
by the Duke of Gordon, Lord Dundas, the Duke of Buccleuch,
the Earl of Roseberry, and the Earl of Selkirk. .

'GAME LAWS

Lord DuNDAs presented a petition from the owners and oo-
copiers of land in the county of Clackmannan, praying for an
alteration iu the game laws.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

On the motion of Lord Wharnchfle, this bill was read a
second time and committed. On a division the numbers were
as follows:
Ayes ..
Noes
Majority for the second reading.....-12
The bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the house
adjourned at half-past six o'clock till to-morrow.