The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-06 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, JtLI- 4.
CM!) Attmocit.

SWUM Barrow:was brought to the bar, indicted
for killing and flaying her female bastard child. .
Charlotte Bridge said, that she was hour' -maid to
Mr. Plastow, of Pall-Mall, :tad the Prisoner came
to her master's boosts in the capacity of cook-maid,
on the 3d of Febrnary last. A short while after her
arrival, lithe thought her sides looked more plump.
than those of a virgin, and being her bed-follow, ac-
vaned I..‘r of bring with child, which she denied.--
Upon the 23d of May, Susan was taken very ill,
and the witness went to an apothecary's shop, fur
the purpose of procor;ng some medicine for her : she
returned, and foetid Susan on the privy, who do-
sired her to cub her back with it, for she had com-
plained of a pain there: she then returned to her
work. This happened about eight in the morning.—
She soon after returned to the back area, and, look. 1

ing into the privy, perceived Susan standing erect,
and tho floor was much discolonrcd. She de4red
her to come up stairs, lest she should catch co!d.---
She ran into the house to brill some linen, and, re-
turning, found her still in an privy,
.and, going
into her, heuid a tall cry. She screamed out,
" Oh, my Cod ! Susan, I he-tr something." Susan
bade her not Le ftigl.tened. there was nothing the
matter; however, she ran into the house, and re-
turning n ith a light !coked into the privy, and
taw the he; of a child. She ran again into the
house, and alarmed a y oung man who was porter,
and returned back to the area. SuAn was at that

time taking the child ont of the dust-hole, it seemed
almost &fillet% and NI ac covered with dust. She was
holding it between her hands, with its feet hanging
down. She ran ;pin into the horse to fetch so:no-
thing, and coining back she did not find Susan. She
called nut, " Susan, %%here are you i'' she answer-
ed lam here." She was standing in the cool-
cyllar, with her baby in her hand, rolled like a bath
Fie ran upstairs and told her mistress, who desired
her to cause ''.t1%311 to come up stairs. She ran down
stairs, and found her crming up. Her mistress de-
sired her to go to bed, which she refused to do, un-
less that she had the child with her. A person was
sent for to dress the chid and take care of the mo-
at% Thy child lived until one o'clock. She search-
ed her trunk for some linen for the mother, hut
found no brAw- clothes. Upon the next morning she
was alone in the room with Susan, and asked her
N$ h y she had tone so rash a deed ? she answered,
that she did not intend to do so until that morning,
anti then she Lad up her mind.
Mrs. Oakley :las dispatched by Dr. Battey to dresi
the chid at 'sr. l'ias:on's, and found it wrapped in
fa!!tel, she handled and washed it. The child was
ryiii; and blelxling at the nostrils. It lived for four
Itocrs. 'Flier. tt err, two small bruises on the child,
Ltit it seemed to eie from the bletding FA the nose.
The child cme to the is cull a month before its
time.

Dr. Fa:lf7nn, a rrati-ir.idwire, sai(!., be exar.i,iNl
the ehial :a Mr. r",astc..v'ti! it m...; bleeding

~ I . pr.;!nzely
at the nostrils. fie saw no particolar ma. k of 'co.
fence ill:on it to eroasion ifs death. It nail received
injury is co-rittg Lilo the wer!d: an" a small Vein
Itolo ,1:•g to the brain had been b. rst by the pressure
of child-I:irth, n111(.11 pccasioned the ble,llitig at the
nos.. : this hlt.eding was tho cause of its death.
It appoared that this unfortnnate cretuttri, had fallon
done stairs about a fortnight b.'fure the ‘23d of May,
from the t.‘p to the button) of mie flight of steps,
hich might bin' ocr.slcitell its coming suede 11, to
the world before its onlinppe mother had leisure, from
her sitration as a servant, to make preparation to re-
ceive it.

The witnesses were cress-examined on beklf of
the Pribouer with great ingenuity and ability by Mr.
ALLEY.

The RECORDER summed np the evidence to the
Jury, and remarked, that the confession of inten.
Canal mursier, rested upon the authority of one wit-
stv4s, who appeared more ready to indulge her curio-
aitx. than to assist the throes of the unfortunate wo-
man. At the time, too, when that confession was
!made, the child was living ; and, according to .the
evideree of one of the other witnesses, it died quiet-
ly, without any apparent struggle from the injury of
'wounds. The whole evidence was laid before them,
and their own judgment would direct them to a ver-
dict.

The Jury, after deliberating some time, retnrned
a verdietzlincliug the Prisouer Guilt" of Mansiaugh-
ler.

The Rrconotn told thrm, it could not be Man-
slaughtur, because it runt have either proceeded from
a wilful cause, or must Lave been the effect of ccci-
dent.—Tlte Jury thea, without further hesitation,
acquitted the ni:oner.

BOW...STREET .•—•-•—W Al LUMEN e---SatUrday AIM'S
CC owner of a n berry, was char,-rsed with re-
fusia to take Mr. Middleton as a fare in his boat, on
the St;th of June, from Strand-lane, and was coa-
victed in the penalty of les. mid costs.—Nalkuniel
_Hudson, the owner of another wherry, was also
charged by the same Prosecutor for a similar refusal
qms the same day, and at the same place, and was con-
Nicted in the like penalty and costs.
A Coroner's Inquest was taken on -Monday last,
t Oshourubv, near FulkingLam, ea the body of a
saran named Thomas Page. The deceased was a pau-
per belonging to the parish of Silk Willoughby, but
Iwo e'lesing to stay in the workhouse, he was in the
habit of strolling about from town to town, subsist-
ing upon the provision which he begged. It was his
custom to deposit what be procured in this way be-
yond the immediate cravings of nature, within his
shirt, next to his hotly ; and having a considerable
store of meat and bread so placA, he, in the early
part of the preceding week, it is supposed; feeling
unwell, laid himself down in a field in the parish of
Scredington,lo sleep. The meat, from the heat of
ti,e weather, and of the man's body, soon becoming
putrid, was struck by flies; and in a short time the
maggots which were so occasioned, not only preyed
upon the inanimate pieces of flesh, hut began literally
to consume the living substance. When discovered
on the Thursday, hundreds of maggots had penetrat-
ed deeply into his body. • lie was conveyed to Os-
bournby, and a surgeon was immediately procured,
'who dressed the parts affected ; but the sufferer died
in a few hours arter. The Jury returned a verdict
tfat tho tl.reascd was-=Eaten &NIA by. maggot,.