The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-16 00:00:00

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OLD LILLE)* SESSIONS. •

[l'tainination of John Fortescur, botchrr. continued
Cvn 'lur irriotior of yesterday, on the triml of
t ,:.cart! Callaghan, Mar!, Daduran, It rllium Dor L.-
t • , Panic! !maw-in. for the murder of JerettliAlt
Lathy, it the lieorge public-110'1%e, in Whitechaprl,
the 2t)th of June last]

• Re-examined he Mr. hotline.
It was in consequence of being alarmed at the report
they sere to be mordsred by the Irishmen, that he
r the house. Cattily tried nest to do some work. but
was unable. On Sitnday the deceased still complained
ct the clicking in his bead, and his eves were wandering.
H. confirmed to get worse front day to day, until he
went into the hospital. It was about church time on
outlay he saw the deceased at the door of the George:
he did not seem to be able to attend a dance that even-
ing; does not know of a dance having taken place in the
ileighbourhood.
Mary 'earthy next called ;n it nese. knew the deceased.
but is neither is sister or relation ; deceased lodged in
Wentworth-street; witness lit i's in George-ruiert ; re-
members the night at the George. 0 itness was not in
the house. hut saw the parties immediately as they came
wit By the parties she meant the prisoners at the bar.
it was then half-past eight o'clock ; they were going
tram the tieorge into the court where they lived. %%li-
nes hearth a noise in the public-horse ; Mary Ihmovan
was calling out. Witness saw the deceased these run by,
and Mary Donovan said. ...Di, is that ).'u Jerry
rthY ?" " Yes, you ,•• replied the deceased.
Yon lie," said Mary Donovan, what patience I have
w.sh you," arid she then took up some dirt, and threw it
et him. This is all witness knew of the affair. She
said she was an Irishwoman.
• /.11r. Jessie'. said there most he some mistake here,
for this was clearly one of the defendant's witnesses.
Mr. Baron ORAN tx said the prisoner's Counsel were
meth itle•tanding entitled to cress-ex3lll fie i I _ler.
Nothing came out in the cruse-examination.
William Robertson, a prisoner in custody. is a car-
penter at Whitechapel, and was at the George on the
isii•ht in question. His account ofthe origin of the a-
ltar !greed entirely with that given by time oitness
Williems.
(fluting the examination of this witness a suggestion
iir:s made to the Court that threat• were used out of
t!..mrs by the prisoner's (rimed. to intimidate the Wit-
nesses f-or the prosecution (rem coming ionised. The
Court in consequence had the Rio prisons brought up,
a:a:est whom the charge o a- made, but it turned out to
E, entirely without foundation.)
Rohertson,en his cross-esansinatlon, said he thoaght
the blow struck the deceased by Callaghan, was given
its play. or by way of friendship.
Julius Natorilf, is a I ierman apothecary. (In theteth
of last July he lived in Wentworth-street,
with a Mr. Rogerson. This house is distant from the
°toile about twenty yards. Remembers an Irishman
being bmnght in wounded to his house about eleven
is'eloek that night. Witness esaminrd his Wounds, as•
skirted by a hair-dresser, whose name be do—, not rend.
lect. Witness ordered the mans bead ess be shaved.
On examining the head, the wouns;s4 appeal esl slang -.roils.
The deceased's sister was not with hien. The is °stilled
ran they called Jerry. Witness saw him I, lien Ise was
laying dead at the 'George, and isientitiesl I • as flee
<ante as he hail dressed. The principal wound was on
Gm right side of the skull. The other was rather Is sek.
•rils. Witness probed the wound, hot eneld not say
tc hether or not the skull was fraetored. Witness cots•
armed to dress him for four or five days. beet nut trim
le-Iv. He advised the deceased to go to the Hospital,
thiakiarhat by good care he might recover. De, eased
came to him in a state of intoxication more than once.
Witness desired him to be more careful. an the wounds
were very dangerous. Witness thought the
wounds
sere inflicted by a sharp iron. Great fssrce appeared to
have been useil,for the parts all aroused were bruised.
Witness examined the head when earthy was dead, :end
then ascertained that the skull had been fractured. The
eecessesi was not able to work afterwards.
Cross•examinerl—The deceased was shrunk the first
right he came to witness's shop. Witness thought if •
roan received a wound in the head. and continued in a
state of intrmiestion it would prove fatal. He desired
Carley not to wort:. earthy used to walls when he came
tri Palouse. Ile has seen earthy twice drunk. lhsi not
sae bins on Simla), at all, but on Monday morniese he
ame without the plai•ters, or any dressing on leis head
at all. He said nothing, however• of any accident which
had happened to him the slay before. lie gave no reason,
but that he conld not keep the &Asters rm. He called
ahmet four or live in the afternoon of Monday lie uas
then a little intoxicated.
Re-examined.—When became the second time, wit nes.
told him to have the people takes sip who struck him.
lie then thought the wounds would be fatal. Witness
thought a blow which would caws'. a pressure on the
brain would produce an effect like the' of intoxiration.
By the COURT.— The appearance of the deceased was
that of one intoxicated front liquor. it eines' found the
smell of it on him. lie did not probe the wounds on
Monday, but their appearance was much worse than
they lead beeen. This change, however, he ascribed not
re a new wound received, but to the neglect of the
deceased.
John Green confirmed the statement of the last
witness. •
William Self, from the London liospital, remembered
Garthy, an Irishman, bring brought to the Hospital on
the 211th of July last. The patient had a slight wound
on the left side of the bead. Witness sloes not recollect
that there were any bruises besides. The wound seemed
to have been inflicted by an obtuse weapon some days
before. The inflammation had a good deal subsided,
hut there was a slight fracture of the table of the skull.
There was a circular fissure, but the fractured particle
had not been depressed. The patient did not suffer so
much from the wound in his skull, as from an inflanensa•
tion produced on the brain by it. This, however, the
witness did not ascribe to intoxication ur any foreign
cause, but only to the wound. 7be infi anion was the
cause of his death. After 11 i death time bayed
.I.was open-
ed, and the brain was found injured, hoili from the blow
anti the compression; mere ineemeeranre would never
produce that degree of inflammation on the brain.
Cross-examined by Mr. BARRI.
The diameter of the fracture was no more than the
• site of sixpence. It was sorb a one as there might be
hopes of its being cured if taken rare of: but intoxica•
tiois, on the other hand, nimbi greatly aggravate it.
Witness thought if the patient was sent early to the Hos-
the fraetue might be cured without trepanning.
Witness further thought continued intoxication from
the 20th of July to time 4th of August, when the patient
dled,•would have greatly aggravated the wound. It
would render a wound which was trilling before, very

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dangerous.
ifte-examlned.—The patient was wren clays in the Hos-
SW; during which time be If 3a not guilty of any in-
temperance. Witness does not think the wound, such
as it was, would occasion death, if it was net aggra-
' 'voted by intemperance. The patient was in a nate of
n 11Itosication when be came to the Hospital. The wound
OMNI have been cured without trepanoting, few the
tared Part pan of the skwll was not depressed at all. POSS
not think the patient's death would be occasioned Isx in-
temperance alone. Thinks the Llow Seas she original
cattle of bislenth. The patient would have died even

if he lived temperately and had not res:eiyed sut•gical is•
sistauce after serh a blow.
This was the ease tor the prosecution.
The pritoner denied all know ledge of how the de-
ceased came by his death.
Witnesses for the defence were then called.
Denis Sullivan was at Wheeler's buildings, near the'
George public•honse, bn the night of the tllth July last.
Ile raw. the prisoners come out of the hone ; Mary 110 -
novan was nut amongst them. They were in the narrow
passage, leading to New Collet, going towards their
own home. Cartli, the deceased. st is hollowing them
in company with eight or nine other persons. earthy
called after the prisoners, but they took no notice of
him. One of l'arthy's party then Anew a brick amongst
the prisoners. A row then co 11111 l enced in Wheeler's
buildings. earthy's party threw bricks at the prison-
ers. and Jerry, the deceased, crie.l out •• do it my boys."
A general tight then began; witness thinks the prison-
er's party would have gone home quietly if they were
not called hack. He saw the d • . d nest day outside
the George; he was statoling with his loads in his
pockets. Witness sate hill) freqllentle after. before he
went to the hospital, but never at work. Witness I:now s
little of the prisoners ; hr had not known them at all
before that time.