The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-28 00:00:00

Ilea very drunk." Upoh that. saltnesi Weird
:the prisoner go oat; be remained out. about a grunter
of an hour. and just an he got out the prisoner nine
,agpsin, and said to witness, " young man, air ton, gettiqa•
op
?" He replied, " that be um dreislig."--The pri-
soner had not been in the habit of calling wiisees before.
AF soon as witness got up he went dowh and !amid the
prisoner standing at the toot of the stairs, close to the
doer of the deeeased'i room. Witeesi !Poked in, and
saw blood on ;bb fitter; between the doors of the front
and back room; the blood was about two br three feet
from glib draftee. The deceased was sitting in a chair
under a window in her own room ' • her left elbow was
resting on the table, dad her head resting on her right
ann. The greatest quantity of blood appeared to be be-
tween the too Joins. The prisoner said," we had better
call some persons, for it is not fit she should be left is
thieattate., At this time the deceased did not appeal- ts
be dead.
The greater part of the evidence was the same that
We have already given in our Union-hall reports, and
the report of the Coroner's Inquest.
ille.*Sensielet Meaty-theery, surgeon, of Hernoodsev.
Mgr the body of the deceased between eleven and midis
sioltiek on the 12tb. He was galled in by the pirish offi-
cers. When he saw Ler she was sitting chair;
' her arm was reclining on the one side of-the chair and
her head upon the arm, a little leaning forward. Thetis
Was a wound of an inch in length, and its depth to t!ie
bone. The teulpotal artery was divide d ; it aas partly
11 lacerated. bound; it was not what he should ekactly
call AU incised waned; the outer' edge of the wound
was not so irregular as the internal parts; it must have
been inflicted by something between a blunt and a sharp
instrument; the figare mewed in a composed at.te in the
chair. In Witness s (Onion, the deceased might have
fainted from the lots 'of blind; recovered, and placed
herself in the ch; ir, and died in the post Ca in which
she was found; this was possible.
Cross-examined.—ln his opinion the decea ed coal,' not
have fallen upon the knife; it was possible . that if she
had fallen on • the point of the knife the wound neglit
have been inflicted, looking at the latch of the door now
produced. and hearing that the deceased bad been drunk,
he conceived it to be within the scope of possibility that
the woond might have been inflicted oy her falhug
against it ; faqing on a fender might have produced this
wows., ; the edge of the thanib part of the door hack
teas sufficiently sharp to have inflicted the wound by fail-
ing against it.
-By the J nry.—Suppssi ng the fake of the deceased to
have come in contact with the latch, the handle which
projected above the thumb part would probably liavc
bruised the cheek.
.The prisoner .being called upon for his defence, said
he would leave it to his Counsel. The hollowing a it-
nesse' were called :
Mary Ward deposed, that she was servant to Mr. nra
the aliisoniesinister. On the I Ith of July, the prison-
er's mistress told him to kill two foe Is, which he did,
by putting them between his kn es. His small clothes
were stained with the blood. There wets also bloOd on
his hands at the time. In the evening of the same day.
a 4 late as mien o'clock, the blocd was nut washed off hi a
hands,
Cross-eraniinett—The fowls were killed by the pri-
soner between 11 and 12 in the forenoon. He was close
ow itiami at th• time, lasi did not wash his hands; there
might be more blood 03 one hand than the other ; could
hot say whether the prisoner used a knife, but he seemed
to haggle with the necks of both.
Mrs. 'rickey deposed, that she lived next door but one
to the deceased. On the morning of the 12th, ah ity. a
little after five, the prisoner called to her, and toll r
these was something the matter with Mrs. Chamber-
hayne ; that he thought she bad been up all night, and
that there was blood on the floor. Witness was alarmed,
and did not.go.
Mrs. Griffiths deposed, that she spoke to the prisoner
on the morning of the 12th. whilst he was in the room.
with the dead body. Witness said it was an awful sight;
to which the prisoner assented, and said it was exceed-
ingly supleatiant to be in a house where such a thing
happened. Witness put her band upon the shoulder of
the deceased, and looked in the face of the prisoner to
see if lie was agitated. He was not in the least agitated.
fhe prisoner said she had not been dead a long ti;no.
because she was groaning when he went to call for tatutt
assistance.
Mr. James Wade, a shipwright, living in Cliarlo'..o
Row, Bermondsey, examined.—The prisoner was i• his
employment from last February twelve months. After
the Coroner's Inquest, the prisoner was admitted to bail,
end witness became his surety. He afterwards sui .
dered. The prisoner bore an excellent character for quiet'
Bess and good conduct.
Several other witnesses gave the prisoner a very good
character for a peaceable and inoffensive disposition.
Mr. Sergeant Oss tow summed up the evidence.
The Jury retired for about three quarters of an boar,
and then found the prisoner guilty of Manslaughter, b tt
recommended him to mercy on account of his previon;
good character. He was sentenced to six months' im-
prisonment in the County gaol.
The prisoner, on his retiring from the bar, solemnly.
protested his innocence.