The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-21 00:00:00

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nal Omen Hospital. He erminpite ism- neTWN i' - ovittl64l
be remained in the poorshoolhonder the eye of km
until the end of lest February or the beginning . 0,,
March ; he remained at times :deranged, 'and at .etberi
bad licid intervals. He applied in Felatuaris WI Imillik
out, as be said he thoughthimself capable of. ealeint
his own living. • The parish did not then think blot 'MP
together of sound mind, although they thought he thigilit
earn his living without expellee to times 1 the with was,
that he should live at home with his father; ble, desire'
wap to get money, to start into Liecolashire, when, MI
thought be coul4 get better work than in Cambridge.
shire: bat be war refused, as they preferred his rentals-
iog at home, where they could have an eye over him.—,
He was allowed to go out, and they never beard spy 1
thing particular about him until this buskins. , On com-
ing down from Bethoal.green, witness ordered bins, Ai
breakfast; a pint of porter, as the keeper in town Weil
that would not be too much for him; he drank one pint
--asked for a second, which he, some way or other, got, .
and he bad taken about one-third of it, when vitamin
found him quite stupid, and lying on the table.
Cross-examined.—They did not torn his loose until
they thought he could take cereal himself. Tite'parish
had nothing to do with him since.
Mr.JusUce HOLROTD summed up the evidence to the
Jury, who, after an boor's coneultation, return.xl a ver-
dict of guilty.
Jacob Illwehl(re, al, and Jaws Mellen 10, were sham.
Id, the first with having, on the 6th of May last, oomatitted
a rape epos the person of Ellen 'Flakes; of Gemberworth it
and the last, (ia company with a person of • the ease of
Nightingele,oot yet to custody) with having aided and sr
stated him in the same.
The proses:lnfix. in her evidence, stated, that she was liii
years of age, and lived with Mr. Hatchiason, of Lane-heed,
Shout a quarter of a stile from her father's hoes*, who lives.
et Cumberworth. On the night of the 6th of May, about 9
o'clock, she had to go to a milliner's. who lived about a
stone's throw from her father's, to sty on a gown, and get
her bat trimmed. Mews. at Pearson's a few sobtutes, and
a:so galled at her father's; and when she left his house, she
saw the two prisoners and Nightingale, at a place called
Jakeman's-bill. They got hold of her, and she told. them to
let her alone, and go about her hesinesi. They letter go
then, but when she got to Abraham ibberson's-tbeyiaid hold
of her again - she wanted to tars back, but they (*road her
down Lane-head-lane, where they peter esti* ground,
and Mellor held her arms, sad Nightingale her head, while
Hinchclife perpetrated the crime. She cried oat as much
as she could, but they " towed and tossed her abet* so;
she Gould not cry oat much." She got up, and ran dove
the lane ; when the three lads again came up, and the cries
was repeated in the same way. When they left heel, she,.
went home. and they ran away, one one way, and abothel:
another.—it was about ten o'clock when she got home:--Nhe
knew the lads before, they were alt neighboert. She Should'
have told her mistress that eight, but she was-very cross at,
her being out so late; and she west tha next aro/aids, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, and told her mother. A war-'
rent was then got for the prisoners.
[it appeared that the outrage took. place at a very little
distance from se 1 houses.]
Mr. Mauna cross-examined the piresseatria. at great
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isaglit; She said she went toren dire& ; dse did not ,
at the door before she went in. nerella she tell her teletresa
Melted been standing on the door stones for tee esieetee.—.
Bbe went to bed directly. When she went out in the morn-
ing, She told her mistress where she was bound, but not
what she was going for. Rinehcliffe is a Married man : and
witness knew his wife by eight, tem is a nice, pretty young
woman.
Martha Tinker, the mother of the prosecutes, was then.
examined. who deposed as to her daughter relating the eir.,
eumstance to her; end to ping VI Huddergield to entitle a
warrant.

Mr. B. Bradshaw, surgeon, proved the injury the young
woman had sustaiued. Amongst other marks, he said, abe
bad several black marks on bet thighs and body, which
must have beim produced by the pressure of some hardsub- '
IMance.
The examinations of the two prisoners were then pot in ;
they stated, that the prosecutrix had asked them to walk
home with her, and that Mellor bad pet his arm round her
neck, and gave her a kiss, and had walked • 900 yards with
Isis arm round her neck. llinchcaffe's examination then
stated, that six men, all disguise!, when they got into Lane-
head pulled him and Tinker about; threw • him down, and
put Ellen on him • and after pulling them about for some
time, they left them, and ran away laaghing.—Mellor's ex-
amination stated, that Tinker had been ill-used by 3 or 4
men in the lane ; thst he beard her cry ravishment or mur-
, der; sad did not go to her assistance. The men were all .'
disguised.
This was the case for the prosecution;—for the defense,
Mary Hutchinson said, it was late before Ellen came
home on the 3th of May. She heard somebody at the door'
ten minutes. before she came in ; the next day Ellen told it I
was her—that Jacob Hinchcliffe followed her down the lane,
and she stood till he came to the WWI. Another man
followed after with a bundles *boat she did not know. This
was at night, after she bad been at Huddersfield. When she
came home the night before, witnesti scolded her for stop-
ping oat so late so often. She did not go to bed directly,
but prepared some milk for the children. She said nothing
to her that night. The next morning witness found Ellen
ironing her gown, and asked her were she was going 1 She
said she would let somebody see before she came back.
She told witness that Hincheliffe and Nightingale hsd pulled
her very ill.
Mr. Richard Hutchinson, the husband of the last witness,
said. Ibberson's-lane was 130 to 200 yards from his house,
and he could have heard a voice at his hoes* from any part
of the road. He had cslied his ate, and been called
himself, from Cumberworth Town End.
Cross-examined.—He was not at home when the girl
mime home.
The Reverend William !Wilton, the Incumbent at Cum-
berrworth, where be had lived upwards of thirty years, knew
the prisoners and their families; and gave them a very good
character. . - .

Joseph Noble and Joseph Ives (James Mellor's masters)
gave the prisoner a very good character.
The LiARNIM Junoe recapitulated the evidence, remark-
ing upon it as he went along; and
The Jury found the prisoners Not Civility'.

FRIDAY, JULY 1&
MURDER.

Margaret Parkin, aged 22, charged with the wilful
muroftr of her female bastard child, at Kiagaton•upon
Hull, en the 6th of March last.
The prisoner was a good looking young woman, re-
spectably dressed. She was in tears when placed at the
bar; but after the arraignment and the Coroner's in-
qnest had been read, she replied to the question of Guilty
or Not Guilty? "Not Guilty," with a very firm voice.
During the forepart of the trial. she laid her head on the
bar, and appeared to be deeply affected. She was allowed
a chair a part of the time;
Mr. COLTMAN said, the unfortunate person at the oar
stood charged with the awful crime of murder, and it
Was his duty to state the facts against her; as concisely
as be could, and without comment. In the month of
February last, /he was in 'the service of Mr. Lunn, a
surgeon of !101l ; she was pregnant, though unknown to
the family, and she concealed the circumstance till, in
the course of nature, she could cunceal it oo longer. On
the 211th of Febrmry she was 'delivered of a male child
by one of Mr. Lunn's assistants; and on the 22d, she
was removed in a sedan chair, to the house'of Mrs. Fos-
ter, a person who was in the habit of taking in wo.aen to
lie in.. She remained there till the 6111 of March. when
she left to proceed to her fatlier's at Howden, as she said,
in one of the Howden boats. She refused the company'
of Mrs. Foster down to the boats; and she left her
house about nine o'clockin. the morning. The same day
a child was found, in the canal. which was net owned, I
and it was buried Without any discovery being made
either of its parents, or how it came by its deatE. The
clothes were preser►ed, and were sees by several persons;
amongst oti:erie Mrs. Faisal • and her 4sogister were
either seat for, or went; aid Wty hentwill_tejy West'.
then as the dollen risesee's 4.11 "*.vike