The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

I

11111115%---
fedisigion, where I was takes. vliThe landlord)
*here I left the earrings, and who see the rings in
amy, hand et the same time, suspected from the Papers
• %Ass the person missing, and found me after search-
-IP. log.tbe country. They asked me who I was; I (laid
.I.herald painter. Oue man said I was, from Mar.
low; I said on. He wished to see my left hand,
.anditie said he I wat from %plow. told him he
Was tertaiely mistaken —They said they hoped I was
wanted, font was ibout the mar-
not the person they
der at Greenwich. I said it was a shhcking thing
Indeed. One man said my description answered to
that of one who was in the deed. I said I knew nothing
concerning it. I then went to the privy and threw
bi the rings. The constable, who kept a public.
house, gave me some (limier, and treated me remark•.
ably well. I confesaeti I was the person that was
missing, hut declared I was as innocent of the min-
der as the child unborn.—The constable searched
se. I pee him the watch I had, and a pocket.
lr•uk, containing the two letters I was to send
m the sea•port town, likewise the Lottery 16th.
I told him that I threw the rings into the privy,
where he afterwards found them. I remained in his
house that night, was very well used, and came
betty with the well wishes of every one, that I should
prove ms innocence. When I came to Baw-street,
I was again examined, and a ring fell out of my
trowsers, Of boots. It slipped trough my fob some
giner in she lining, and I thought it lost. The blood
en my trowsers was done by Hazleton, a
little before Christmas—we had been to the play to.
gether, and afterwards went to the Tiger', [lead,
and bad a few glasses of grog. Hazleton got locked
out, bat he said that if the rapid was not gone up
be coati get in the back, way. In getting over a
wail, being intoxicated, he fell on some glass panes,
and I gut over and held him op. He hid cut him,
self very much, and being quite stupid and weak,
I to• 4 him up on my, back, and carried him for a
considerable distance, his hand bled profusely, and
the blood ran down my black coat, waiscoat, and
trowsers. We went t.. the Tiger's Head heck, but
they was shut; we then went to the watch.house,atid
to Mr. Finch's, the doctor, who dressed Hazleton •
likewise we went to Litton's, and Mr and Mrs. L.
saw the condition I was in. Mrs. helped to sponge
me, and I rubbed my trowsers with pipeclay,but they
have never since been washed, therefore some stains
of blood may remain. My gaiters got spotted with
blood on the Friday previous to the reorder. Me
arid Hatleton had a sheep's heart and a melt for dinner,
and while I 4as cleaning the heart I sprinkled a spot
or two over my gaiters. This Hazleton knows to be
tree, and Mrs. Walmsley and the people at the Tiger's
Head know how my cap got stained. They-say like-
wise my jacket is stained with blood, but if I was to
be pet to the greatest torture I don't know how that
happened, unless it was done by Hazleton, when
going for a handkerchief to my boa ; or it may be a
stain of fruit, or wet. My washerwoman will be
able to say whether she ever observed 'it before. I
have never blooded it, and if these were my last mo-
ments I had to live I should say it with s clear con-
science. The jacket has never been on my back since
I left Statute's's, nor did I wealrmy covered hat, as
has been said, on the *today evening. This is as
false as God is tree."
Mr.Serjeant Lane, site sat as Judge in the Cri-
minal Court, then monied up. This was a case
which deserved attention from the Jury, and he was
happy to see that it received it. The Learned Ser-
jeant had said that the evidence of circumstances was
stronger than testimony, but still it must depend
upon testimony. Though the evidence was long, it
might be brought within a narrow compass. The
circumstances of the murder could not be doubted ;
but the question was, were they brought home to'
the individual at the bar. '['he time within which the
murder must hive been perpetrated was nearly fixed.
The murder most have been committed between the
hours of 8 and 9 o'clock. The deceased was a nem
of regular habits, and went to bed before 10 o'clock.
The supper was prepared; the potatoes were in the
oven; the water was ; and the table.cloth,
was about to be laid on the table. The Jury had
beard a circumstantial account of the state in which
the bodies and the house were found. It was not
necessary to detail them. There was almost no
doubt that the woman was coming to the doer, when
• the crime was perpetrated, and that Mr. Bird was in
the attitude
.conjectured. The Learned Judge then
went over the evidence, with great impartiality anti
discrimination. He made towards the conclusion a
very solemn charge to the Jury, and seemed very
much affected in desiring them to make up their minds,
and pronounce their conscipotious cottiiction, how.
ever fatal it might be to the Prisoner at the bar. Ile
spoke two hours.
Mr. knoLPHUS addressed the Court, and said,
that a new fact, of which he was not aware, had
been disclosed in the Prisoner's defence, it was the
circumstance of his arrest and subsequent discharge
for this oirence.
The COURT consented to have some of the wit-
nesses called back to enqiire into this fact.
Halbybone, the Secretary' was now called hack.
lie said he recollected Stephen Epsom having called
Hussey out of the room of the Odd Fellows on the
Saturday after the murder, to question him en the
business.
Cross-examined.—When the new Odd Fellow was
made, he was sore the Prisoner was not present ;
the meeting took place at a quarter past eight o'clock
on the Saturday evening.
Larkin was called up again ; he said, that on the
14th February he heard Hussey and Hazleton had
absconded from the Tiger's Head, he went there and
found his information bad been incorrect, as Hussey
was there ; and on being asked about motley, he
said he had got it by a legacy of between 60 and 701.
which on enquiry proved to be correct. He re-
ceived this legacy on the Wednesday after the
murder.
At twenty minutes before ten o'clock the Jory
consulted upon their verdict, and in about six mi-
nutes, end without withdrawing from the box, found
a verdict of—Guilty.
The Clerk of the Arraigns then called on the Pri-
soner in the usual form to know if he had any thing
to say why sentence of death should nut be passed,
upon him.
The Prisoner, in a faoltering accent, and .a pale
and agitated countenance, said "My Lord my
Lord !"