The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-08 00:00:00

EXECUTION
Oi artnerr Dt: !TRACT AND PvtIDATT INNIS, AT

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[For an arronnt of the trial tree the lot page.]
Elest.tx. MAT h.—Yesterday, at Imlf.paar ono
o'clock, the v,•ngeanee of the law was inliesed nots
these noiseritiole culpr:ts. The fronds, whirls bed oast
sett:bled from an early hoer, to wituess zh,•le extweilret:
were anprecedented in HUI conntrir : the rcwii.
surrounding fields, film ',Ounce a view of tile pal
could ohtained, were ever; where towered with
people. In the immediate vicinity of the prisrtn,•tlie
pre!! ire hector., so great, !bat it was news:late. try the
aid of the police and mi'oitary, to clear. the seat* iw
front, wlich was effected ith slut? rtiffical'y and some
tlativr, from the extreme peeerue. From the time
the unfortun oe women ftml received thrie lifetime;
they appeared filly wisened to their fate. Beni, lad
some sleep tlniin.r the night, but Butterlv (Ski tint
sleep : the C:10.4' %lie attributed to a leo-It-ache, of
which she complained. After the irons had beta re-
moved, they advanced from the interior belittler
through the passage leading to the at'artment which
adjoins the r'atfornt. The executioner came firet—
then the It• to t ulprits in tl:e a'titnde of prayer, placed
abreast ; after them the llergyture, who, with Mr.
Donne. occusOtonally supported their teetering steps.
Butterly was pale, but more firm than Ennis: Ennis
was the larg:w and elder woonan both were well
fool:in, women. awl under °the ci cciunstances [lnnerly
might be considered rather handsome.
The roars hating been adjustell, and the caps
drawn over their fires, they trade their appearance
thr.ott eh the opettiog to the ph !form immediately
a loot ejactoiation tell it sium.taueously from for
is eip,e it.W: toile lientielt ; hot there was nothing
itioOicatise of the loo:ot sympathy for the wretche.l
sufferers—one :resin:: pervaded the entire mass it was
horror at their tehuman crime. Ennis was, with def.
sotputorted on the scaffold. After the mew-
tioner had re-aodjoisted the rope, and remote i his hand
•lie vsuno. round, and u•oulti hive fallen, if the t'ler•
eyman had not held out 1, a hand to her support Br:t-
urtle st I more firm. As little time as possible was
common...it iu tosese owial preparations : the fatal drop
fell. ao‘ol imilo were launched two ett rnity "at the same
instant'. Buttes-Iv ',een,eJ to have died iustantsee-
onsly ; s-arose a %notion was ptereptible after the first
convulsite effort : I:tonis appeared to suffer lunch: •
she heat ed tiollently f r segue time after her limits had
ceased to move. After hsiKing the 1.11!•11131 tune, the
bodies here let down and taken into the prison. They
welt. su ,sequently sent to Stupors's Hall, for dissce-

twit.
About eight Weide% in the morning. it wns inn•
mated to Mr. Dunne, the 'rooter, that Bitterly wished
to maLe a public confession; she and Innis appeared
in the presence of some gentlemen, when she made the
declaration, of which the fullowiti:; is a part, and
which was taken down nearly verbatim, from her lips,
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by Mr. Allison, Deputy Osaoler:—
" About right days before the commission of the.
crime, Widget Penis paused me to go to Bothell. '
I said I had no money, and to take anything from itte
another, I would not do it. The robbery of Mr. Peel:'s
house then first occurred to my mind. Ennis asked
me what plan should be taken to accomplish it ?
replied. that we should watch Captain Peck going out,
and that Ennis should go to the door, and inforni.
.liss Thompson that Captain Perk had met with a‘
accident, by being run over with a carriage. !Rie
then stated circumstantially the Mantle. in which th
tirst part of the plan had been accomplished, and p-o.
seeded thus
• On comilg up to the house an altercation took.
plaec :t> to who should first cuter ; I rapped first;
3lks V tampon let me in, kindly received me, and
shook am hv the band. Miss Thompson brought me ;
into the parlour ; I took up the young child about
too yea-, and caressed it. By this time Ennis
knocked a; the door, I set down the child. and Miss
Thumps 'n opened the door for Ennis. Ennis desired,
use to pat the handkerchief about her seek, or face
:nano say which word she use.l. I immediately fas-
tened it ash tut her neck. and dragged her down the
staircase lvading to the kitchen ; the vonn;.7 lady called
upon Emais, awl implored her to help her ; &lois
cried out, " Biddy. don't injure the young lady ;
have no intention to hurt Miss T.; and she then left
the hour with the trunk. I had dragged Miss T. 2or 3
steps slows before Ennis had left the house, but had not,
givea her any bloat, or other injury at that time ; I
pushed het down stairs till I gut her into the kitchen,
and then I seized a poker, and began to beat ; gave
her two blows nith the poker on her head : Miss
Thompson screamed, and so did I, but I repeated my
blows till the blood gushed out in torrents ; Miss
Thompson then lay quiet. I stooped forward over her.
and entleavotared to rase her up in toy a; ms ; can't ac-
count for this impulse ; by which my clothes became
co besmeared with the blood. I left Mist Thompson
lying in that state, and went up stairs; the Child,
on the stair head, and took it up and kissed i!, and
set it down in the parlour ; I then to ilt np tir desk
and immediately left the house. I then snot t, Mary
Bryan's house, and to any great surprise found that
Ennis had not been there ; I was greatly afraid she
had been taken into custody ; I askr-1 Mrs. Bryan if
she would give me leave to leave a desk thge, that be-
longed to a young woman who would call in the evens
ins fur it, to which site assented.—l then went to look
for Ennis. I went towards Captain Pnk's honer, and
got within view of it, n hen I saw a tall man standing
at the door, who I believed to be the husband of tbn
maid servant ; then I returned, afraid of hoktdo.
tected. When I arrived at Bryan's hove, klitsa
Ennis just cowing to the door."
Ennis being asked by Mr. Allison to access% far dm
delay in nut getting sooner to Bryan's hostas ;. ens. ,
swered, that she took annoy circuitous rout, it Ofdir
to avoid meeting the maid servant. who be expensed.
would be returning by the direct road, and would „
known the trunk that she, Ennis,, was carryiog. Ist-
terly solemnly declared she matte use of no wimple
whatever, except the poker.-.neither kci!e, pidgin
trowel, or to qrs.
The above is not (8e rc.itole of the confession of
Bitterly. We hose. (say% 'Lae 41foritil, Porte)
a farther account, taken from her own lips ea the
morning of her execution. It learratv her llot
gtaiatance and subsequent connexiss,:of .a Cringstol
nature, with an iodividnal whom we shall eel same •