The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

ghter of the prisoner

Deceased was a crip

She was going to bed on the landing of the stairs.
ed was not long enough, and the bedding was only
s. The next day the deceased came to
ye her some tea and things several times.
the 15th of June, deceased came to witness's
She said she was re•

him, and hig
On

room, and he gave h
lased in her bowels. The next Sunday she came again
into his room, and showed a mark on her body. Witness
gave her some tea. The next day, the 23d of June, saw
the deceased at the petty door on her bare feet. She had
a chamber utensil in her hand nd was. cleaning it out.
The prisoner took hold of der "s hand and rubbed the
dirt in her mouth. The de, to be very ill.

er some tea

eas
Isea appear

Next day
the fire.

;aw her in tt
Had seen the I

e parlour with the policeman by
trike deceased several

n hire a cut on her hand

ipe Nelson.-
%e deceased,

ged at Thomas Swinnerton

er made the
ha

een years old
d work about the house

,o was about sevent

UBed-to beat her w

k repeatedly, and once threw
)wn to the cellar with-

out beating her. On the Sunday before the deceased
went to the workhouse heard the child cry. Went down
to her. She slept in the cellar, which was a
through which the air came, so that the deceas
)n the Monday the prisoner

grating

be expi
told th

to the night air: (

3ceased to come up from the celfer. The de.
aid she was so ill she could not, and the prisoner
she would beat her and kill her if she did not
come. She then came with great difficulty, and asked the
fora drop of water, to clean the utensil with,

e prisoner refu

;o give her,

r witnesses were then called, whose evidence went
to the same effect as the above. The result of the ill.
treatment was that the neighbours interfered, a doctor
was sent for, and the deceased was sent to the workhouse,
died. The medical man who at-
!d that she had died from consump-
it that he could not say that the taeatment of the

her there s

isoner had cans
At the do

of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Monk
submitted to his Lordship that there was no duty imposed
food, raiment, and the
the counts of the in-

w on the prison

, for the dec

sed, on which

ant proceeded. The pri
f her husband, and t
len the paterfamili

,ner was
_merely the set

ere was no duty imposed on
was at home, for there could

not be a divide

His Lordship said that in his opinion the indictment
could not be sustained ; there was no duty imposed upon
the prisoner, being a married woman, as was alleged in
the indictment, for it was the husband's duty to provide
all that was necessary and proper for the child, and to see
_
that sb,- Fortunately in this case, the

.ceived them

a point of law would not frus-
e after the evidence of the
with all his experience he
s occasioned by the treat-
n detailed, the jury could not find a

prtsoner. being acquit

trate the ends of justice, b

tdical man, who stated that

could not say that the d
ment which had

The jury then acquitted'the prisoner.

URDER AT LIVERPOOL
'RR indi

a for thevii

'ul murder of

ughter, in Jul,
.ng " How say you, are you
Guilty, my lord." His
who sat beneath the
Mr.

.ty or not guilty 1" replied, '
'dship intimated to Mr. Polo,

ick, to req

ul not guilty
" I can't, sic

guilty." In the case
lie prisoner with the

murder of

er children, the

g the c

in

'oid th(

eof her husband, at the mere utterance of whose
the would, tremble. In consequence of her excited

placed in the lunatic ward
time, but her mental irrita

a to go into the nurse

Teat anxiety to
Up

8 appearance at the Wort

th her,