The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-01 00:00:00

CONFESSION OF MARY ANN BURDOCK.

It appears that after all the protestations of innocence nade
by this wretched criminal, both at the time of her trial and on
the day of her execution, to the chaplain and governor- if the
prison, she made a confidant of a female acquaintance awned
Anti Bayuton, who has since duly attested before. thenirKi'-
trates a confession, entrusted to her alone, in the following
forin :
" On Tuesday morning (the day after trial) Mrs. Part/tick
appeared very low in her spirits. 'there was another female in
the room named Margaret Hit:theft, who assisted me in :mending
on her. On Margaret leaving the room Mrs. B. said she vanilla
tell me the secret, if I would swear not to name it to any person
until after her death. I said, upon my soul I woull not. She
was not satisfied -with that promise, but made nteevear, and call
upon God to witness. I did so, and Mrs. B. thea told me that
she gave Evans two penny-pieces to:,buy the arsenic, but that he
did not know what it was for. That she kept it in her pocket
for five days, and then gave it to Wade, and he put a little of it
in some milk on .the following evening (he put it in with a mus-
tard spoon.) She (Mrs. B.) did not think he had put in enough,
and the next night he put in some more in thickened milk, with
the same spoon, then broke the spoon and put it in the tire.
She then took the milk up stairs into her own bedroom ; she
set it down on a bureau bedstead, which looks like a chest of
drawers, and there stirred it in the milk with a dessert spoon.
Went to a trunk and took'a clean pocket handkerchief, and on
turning round, saw the girl (Allen) Standing at the door. Stir'
asked her what she wanted, and wondered at her impudence in
following her. She then took it and gave it to Mrs. Smith,
who drank it. She said no more to me cosicerning the murder,
• .t.• it to know what ths 11,44) d 11.3
with the money they ham isati, . counsellors bad
been paid. She said she was very glad she was not tried for
thieving the money, as then it would he taken from them, and
now the £5OO would do for her children.—The declaration of
"'ANN BAYNTON."
Previous to the' interment, whisk took place in the enclosed
ground belonging to the gaol, a cast was taken of her head by
some scientific gentletnen; who have pronounced that it was of
most singular formation; the forehead 'is remarkably low, the
cheeks very long, the organs of firmness, secretiveness, and
cunning largely developed ; that of philoprogenitiveness, or
love of offspring. very indistinct. Altogether it is a head which
will admit of great discussion amongst the disciples of phreno-
logy. The body was placed in a plain elm coffin, and the fol-
lowing is the inscription on a large stone, 6 feet by 3, placed
over the grave :—" Beneath this stone lie the remains of Marl
Ann Burdock, who was executed in this gaol, April 13. 1835; is
her 38th year, for the wilful murder (by poison) of Clara Anna
Smith, of this city." • - -
The patient and impartial attention which our Recorder, Sir
Charles Wetherell, bestowed on the trial of the above murleress,
and the acumen he exhibited in analysing the mass of evidence
adduced are the theme of general eulogy, and entitle him to a
high place in the annals ofour criminal judicature. (if the guilt
of the criminal, independent of her confession, not a solitary
doubt exists; but it is a remarkable fact that after she matte the
disclosure to one of the prisoners (a convict) she persisted in
her innocence to one of the magistrates, declaring that her exe-
cution would be murder !—Bristol Journal.

DREADFUL MURDER AT WOOLIVICIL

The town of Woolwich was yesterday thrown into a state of
great agitation by, the perpetration of a most dating and delibe-
rate murder. It appears from the information that we were
enabled to collect hastily on the spot that a corporal of Marines •
named M'Carren had for some time frequented the house of the
deceased. Mrs. Brownrig, a widow. aui landlady of the Britannia
public-house, near the Marine Barracks, in consequence of
Which an attachment arose between the parties, and had even
proceeded so far that Friday next was named for the consum-
mation of their affections. On Sunday evening last, however,
a party of relatives of the murdered female assembled at her
house. M'Carren, who was present, co'nceiving that they
slighted him, and were using their utmost endeavour to prevent
the union of the object of his affection and himself, brake out
into a violent rage from some trivial cause, and declared be
would put act end to his intended bride ere the lapse of another
week. The threat was taken no notice of, supposing it to be
rather the ebullition of a man overheated. with liquor than the
real sentiments of one who professed so much attachment to tbe
object of his intended revenge. But, yesterday morning. awful
to relate, these confiding hopes were sadly aisappointed, jot
between ten and eleven o'clock, just after the morning parade,
the culprit entered the house of Atte deceased. and drew his
bayonet on his unsuspecting victim, with which he inflicted
wound after wound until she fell at his feet, a hiertiing corpse.
Her mother, who happened to be present, sud of course
spectator of the diabeAcal scene, in her endeavours to protect,
the person of her daughter, was stabbed in several places. Ms.
alarm was instantly raised, and after a desperate struvide the
murderer was secured, and taken to the cage. An examination
of the prisoner took place last night before Sir John Webh,
which did not terminate till a late hour, when he was committed
to Newgate to take his trial.
The prisoner was than handcuffed and taken back to the cage.
prior to being conveyed to Newgate. The crowd of persons
that had assembled opposite the Castle by the time the examina-
tion had terminated was immense. The coroner's inquest will
be held this day.
It is a singular and melancholy fact that the husband of the
murdered female about four years ago hanged himself in the
same house where his unfortunate widow tact her violent.abd
untimely death.—Morning Herald, Tuesday,

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, POSTPONEMENT OF THE FANCY FAIR.
10 'consequenie- of Chester Races taking place on the days
announced -fop: the: BAZAAR, the Proprietor has been
solicited to POSTPONE the Public .Days until MONDAY,
the 11th, ana-TuE§oA v, the 12th of: Mav next; the Fancy
Fair will, tberefore, take place a week liter than originally
announced... - • -
LIVERPOPL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
IVR. ATKANS-, Proprietor of the above G ARDENS, begs
leave most respectfully to return thanks Ao the Nobility
and Gentry, and to the Inhabitants of Liverpool and the vim-
generally,. for the very flattering support which h.s Esta-
blishment has .received since its commencement, and to inform
them that the Season for 1835-6 will commence on MODAv,
the 11th May next, on which and the following day e anni-
versary of the Opening of the Gardens will be cel rated, as
usual, by a
BAZAMI AND FANCY. FM
11,0 profits of which, together with a donation oportionate to
the receipts, will be divided amongst the
PUBLIC CHARITIES:
'On the evenings of those days the- Gardens and principal
Buildings will be
SPLENDIDLY ILLUMINATED.

There will alsg be a
GRAND EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS,
Under the.superintendence of Mr. 'L. G.yngell, 'Vauxhall.
On'Tuasnay- Afternoon a splendid Balloon will ascend from
the area of the Gardens.. .
A FULL MILITARY BAND
Will be in attendance on the'oriening days, and will perform

three times a week‘during the season.
Contributions from Ladies and Gentlemen of articles for sale
at the Bazaar 'will be thankfully received, aud.duly accounted
for at the Gardens, where any further information may be ob-
tained.

Subscription Bunks for the season are now lying for sigriature
Mr. Grapel'a, .Church-street, at the Lyceum News-room, and
In the principal. Hotels and Newspaper-offices, where Tickets
Islay be had.
Subscribers are respectfully requested to obserie that, as the
season for 1834 expires with the present month, old tickets are
inadmissible on the opening days. Nou-subscribers will be ad-
suitted on those days with an order from a Subscriber, on pay-
ment of Two Shillings, till Two o'clock ;•after that hour, and
for the rest of the season, at the usual:clarge of Ode. Shilling.
The following are the •

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPT/ON:—
Annual Ticket for a single Subscriber £1 1 0
Ditto for a Fatnilv not exteeding four persons 3 3 0
bitto for any additional member of a Family above four 0 7 CI
Ditto ditto above six 0 5 0
The terms for the admission of Schools, either for a single
visit or for The season, may be known on application at the
Carden.

Subscriberi. to, enjoy the privilege of Writing Visitors'
Tickets, withokit which INtm-subscribers will not be admitted.
Tickets not transferable.
The Garden are Open from Sevep or, Eight o'clock in the
Morning, according to the season, till dusk, throughout the
Year. . .
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