The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-07 00:00:00

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Ann Golbourites who is just turned of fourteen
years of age, was indicted for killing and shying
Esther Lout. •

Edward Clark, a boy about fifteen years of
age, stated, that on the tOth day of last Juuc,
the deceased, ,hiesself, and several abet children,
were at play by the side of the canal at !Haskell,
near Red-Lion bridge, when be saw a stone coin.
ing from the battlements or the bridge, in a cur.
cod direction, which dropped upon the side of the
bead of the deceased, which knocked her into the
canal.
Ellen Shaw said, she resides within about
twelve or fourteen yards from the bridge; she
knows the deceased and the Prisoner, and was
standing at the door when the circumstance hap.
petted ; she saw the I'rlsoner coming round the
bridge, saw her take up a stone, which she sup-
posed might be about four or five pounds weight,
and then she walked to the top of the bridge, and
dropped the stone over it ; she did not see the de-
ceased at the time, nor could she see whether the
Prisoner looked over the bridge at the time she
dropped the stone or not. She heard the deceased
shriek ; she ran to her assistance, and found the
other children getting her out of the anal; she
said to the Prisoner, " I am afraid you have
killed the child ;" the Prisoner then ran away.
'rite circumstance happened about nine o'clock in
the evening, and the child died the next morning
at five.
Mr. Elston, a surgeon, said, he attended the
deceased, and after her death he took ef her
scalp, when blood poured out of both her ears,
and be had no doubt but her death uas occasioned
by external violence.
Sir A. CRANIUM, in summing up the evidence,
observed, that although it hail been insinuated
that the Prisoner had an enmity to the deceased, it
was- not in proof ; therefore, the fair. inference
was, that it was a childish act in throwing or
dropping the static into the water, fur the purpose
of splashing the other children ; and although it
bad proved fatal, he was afraid it could only be
considered as a childish trick, however it was to
be lamented.
The Jory found her Net Guilty.
his Loedthip gavii permission for the Prisoner
to be discharged at the ber, and delivered to her
father.

George -Beaton was indicted for killing and
slaying William Tattersall, of Rochdale ; and
also charged 'won an inquest of the Coroner.—
It appeared that the deceased was a boy between
• nine and ten years of age, and he and the son of
else Prisoner, about the :same age) quarrelled
*boot a penny ; and the Prisoner, going• to take
his soots part, struck the deceased mi.:several
ports of Ms body, and for 'which the Coroner's
,inquest charged him with manslaughter, the blows
he give him being supposed to have bees the cause
of his death.
Walter Dunlop, a mirsten, said, he was called
in on the l3th of July, to attend the deceased ;
be found much fever upon hist; symptoms of in.
term! inflammation ; difficult respiration ; the
abdomen painful to touch ; violence in the left leg
and hip ; s swelling from his left foot to his knee •
on the right hip a slight contusion. The deceased
lived from 'Thursday night to Saturday noun ;
after his death, the witness opeded the body, and
found inflammation in the bowels and lungs. The
witness not being able to prove the deetasecl died
of external violence., the Jury, by the direction
of the Learned Judge, found the Prisoner Not
Guilig.
John 13rn4 cy, alias John Brad,,, was charged
with killing end slaying William Deough, at Li-
verpool.
George Day deposed, that the deceased and
himself were breeches-makers, and worked in
Liverpool together. On SAteirday night, the 11th
et June, after they had done work and had
their suppers, it being a very fine night, they
agreed to walk till four o'clock, when it would be
high.water, sad they would bathe ; as they were
passing through Gladstone-street, they heard a
noise at a house of ill-fame; they stopped to see
what was the cause, when the Prisoner came up to
them, apparently a little intoxicated, and said
to them, " 1)---n my eyes, give me something to
drink," which they refused to do ; the Prisoner
pushed violently against the door of the house of
111-fame, and (Ailed out " Charlotte!" ; a girl
opened the dour, the prisoner went itt, and they
followed, out of curiosity ; the Prisoner asked
them again to give him something to drink, which
they refused ; the Prisoner then jumped up, and
said he would give thorn both a d-_.d good hiding,
and he immediately struck the deceased a violent
blew tin his breast, got hold of him, and dragged
him into a back kitchen ; the witness followed to
assist the deceased, and saw the Prisoner strike the
deceased on his chin, which blow knocked him
down, and he fell with his bead apiast the post
of
the stair.eass, and the Prisoner upon him ; the
deceased azelabeedtx:parently In great agony,
to the witness, " George, George, I am killed !
bring men Parson, I shell not live a moment."...
At the time the dammed was calling old, the Pri.
sonar bed got his los open Ms shoulders ; the Pre-
wet afterwards ram away met of tile hoes. • the
witness got the demand into a parlour, washed his
wounds, And, by the assistance at -a man, carried
him how. .
Charlotte Aspinall, the girl who bad lived in
the hoes., and whom the primmer had called to,
said, she would not have opposed the door, but
the Prisoner threatened to break it open, saying he
was a friend, and his same; she bad been intimate
with the Prisoner some years since, but he bad
bees to sea, and he was so reach altered, she did
not retolleet him. Sham, the Prisoner strike the
deceased Without any prevomition, and she let
four watchman into the hope la consequence of
the slats that was given.
Owen Thomas, the surgeon that was sent for
to attend the deceased, said, he found his breast_
bone ddprived of muscular moiled, and all sensa-
tion of feeling in that pert goes ; a severe coots.
ion in the back of his neck to the back-bees ; a