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heard of the man she worked for, and people saying he did it.
Prisoner said he never saw her that night after she left the fac-
tory. He added that deceased went home, and was singing
with her brother, and jumped up and said she was going to see
a young woman named Jane Pilling, and was never seen alive
at home afterwards. Prisoner explained how the occurrence
took place, which was, that one of the boats was passing near

the hick, and some parties on board found her ; and had proper
means been used she might have been recovered, as the body
was warm when taken to the Three Crowns. _ _ _

Richard Beswick, chief superintendent of the Manchester
police, apprehended the prisoner on the 26th of January last,

with which he was charged, and after being cautioned, said he
had not seen deceased after she left work on the evening of the
10th December; that after leaving work be had gone to the
Free-trade Hall, and it was full, and he could not get in ; that
he reached home at seven, and did not go out that night. A
scarf, which the deceased had been seen to wear, was found in
his house. Witness corroborated the statements of the parties
who had identified the prisoner at the police-office in Manches-

ter. Received information a few days ago that a man, named
Hartley, and his mother, had something to say about the mat-
ter, and on hearing their statements, found they coincided in
all the principal particulars.
Richard Green, an Inspector of the Manchester police, pro-
duced a scarf, which he found in the house of the prisoner.
Was present when the body of the deceased was disinterred,
and at the examination by Mr. Harrison, surgeon.

Mr. J. S. Phillips, shoit-hand writer, 'was at the New Bailey
on the 27th January, On the charge, and prisoner made a state-
ment, after being duly cautioned.
Mr. Pollock wished to know whether the statement had been
taken down by the magistrate's clerk, to which the witness re-
plied that he believed it had not.
The witness then read the statement. It was to the effect
that he went to work as usual on the day in question, and de-
ceased was his piecer. They gave over at seven in the evening,
and he never saw her after. He went to the Free Trade Hall,
but could not get in, and afterwards went home, and got in a
load of coals, and did not go out again ; he never saw her after
he left off work. The witness read some further statements,
the substance of which have been given in the evidence against
him by previous witnesses ; they amounted to a denial of the
charge. .

Mary Ellison, the mother of the deceased, deposed that she
came home on the day in question as usual, to dinner, and no-
thing remarkable was observed in her demeanour. Never said
the deceased was three months gone in the family way, and had
no reason to think such was the case. In cross-examination,
the witness stated that she went to the Old Church, but not
from any notion that the deceased had been married—more in
a state of frenzy than otherwise. _ _

John Deane deposed that he saw the prisoner a few days after
the body of the deceased was found, and told him of the re-
ports that were abroad as to his being in prison. Witness
wished him to come to his house, and satisfy his neighbours
that such was not the case. In a short time prisoner's wife
came, and said, " Have you got the prisoner here?" and some
one said, "Yes." A conversation then took place, during
which prisoner was asked if he would be guilty of such an act
as that imputed to him, and he replied, "I never said I did not
do it."