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ear where she was standing. and, on my inquiry, she on so serious f
sid it was only where she had been breaking coal. She to take himsel
tood 311 my right hand, and I asked her what hole that Il
7as ? She said it was a hole, but nothing was, kept in it
stooped. and the prisoner made a start. I seiz

rought her
nd there I f

murdered. I

culprit

ight arm, and said, " Mr _
re which you don't 'like to 1
like me, have a full opportunity.'

The body was lying with tfie

arms crossed, partly on the right side and partly on the
back. I found the cleaver, which I now produce, in the
ash-hole. [The cleaver was a very small one, without
any wooden handle, and still bore the marks of blood.
The unfortunate woman seemed to suffer intensely whilst
this testimony was being given, but the male prisoner
maintained the coolness he had manifested throughout,
leaning carelessly on his arms on the front of the dock.]
I found (continued Brandwood) some wearing apparel,
which had not gone out of my custody, except to my
wife, until I delivered them to Dr. Brett, of Liverpool.
When I took them to that gentleman it was a wet morn-
ing, and the apparel got wet.
[At this stage of the trial, the proceedings were inter-
rupted by parties forcing themselves into the court, and
order was only maintained by his lordship threatening to
send any one to gaol who forced himself into the court
against orders, and disturbed the business of the assize.]
By Patrick Lyons : I did not search the clothes of the
deceased. Before you were apprehended three Irishmen
did not come to me. I heard that you had enlisted in
Dublin in the East India Company's service, and that you
had sent word to that effect to your wife.
Daniel Dagenell, policeman, of Warrington, was the
first witness called after the temporary adjournment of
the court. His evidence went chiefly to corroborate the
testimony of Brandwood, with the addition that, in the
coal-hole, he found a basket containing some smallwares,
and a stool covered with blood.
By Patrick Lyons.—l believe there was some money
found in the pocket of Fahy when the body was taken to
the Bridewell. I saw yen, last May in a row, with others,

lly a false report ; me and my husband and he questioned •to himself what would be the best
guilty of anything of the kind." I. then thing to do. He thought it would be right to tell the
,e if that bad been removed, police, at first ; but then he felt it to be a hard thing that
be the cause of apprehending his own wife
l charge; and, therefor, he thought it best
f off, and leave his wife to take her chance.
went over to Dublin, and there enlisted, as
ited in the evidence above, and he accounted for the

Lyons, there I row that took place on board of a vessel from that place.
•, In corroboratian of this statement be handed over to his
I lordship a letter, which he said he had received from the

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) the place, and opened the door; recruiting aerjeant at Dublin, detailing the circumgtance
id the body of a woman who had been which resulted in his clothes being stained with blood.
arged her with having, with her husband, The learned judge said he could not receive this letter ;
he murder, and her answer was—" lam but the governor of Kirkdale Gaol stated that he
I sent for assistance ancl went away, believed the letter had come to the prisoner by post, but

of course, knew nothing more about it. The
seijeant who enlisted Lyons, at Dublin, on being recalled,
said he did not recognise the handwriting of this letter as
that of his brother officer. The prisoner then concluded
by saying, that a month or five weeks before the murder,
his wife had heard from the neighbours that he was thick
with Margaret Fahy, and that she, consequently, became
' very jealous of that ill-fated woman. This jealousy, he
suggested, as the reason of his wife committing the
murder. Whilst he was making this statement, the
female prisoner looked at her husband and regarded him
with a contemptuous smile.
The female prisoner re-called several of the witnesses,
but their testimony added nothing to what was already
stated, with the exception that none of her neighbours
ever knew her to quarrel with the deceased or with her
husband, on her account. She entered into a rambling
statement, the effect of which was that her husband had
committed the murder, and would have murdered her and
the witness Collins too, had she not gone up stairs and
detains 1 that lodger in bed. She denied that she had
ever been jealous of Fahy, and threw all the guilt of the
crime on her husband. She did not think he was going
to do anythine; amiss when she called Fahy up ; and she
said she would have given information of the murder to
the police, but that she was rendered quite stupid by her
husband committing so dreadful a crime.
The learned JunGa commenced his summing up at
half-past four o'clock, and both prisoners watched every
observation he made, intently. He commenced by ex -
p,essing a hope that the people who had squeezed into
that very ill-kept court would endeavour to be as quiet as
possible, whilst the jur7 and himself discharged the re-