The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-04 00:00:00

CORONERS' I?tQUESTB.

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sNIPANTICIDR ITT • ilifoaven.—Tadday wisid; ft g ow itt .
au inquisition was taken before'. W. UNWIN. rig. Coroliis,"
at the Threalletnpessespubiie-honse, Brick Lane,Whitechspet„
on view of the body of Catherine Smart, an infest, mardered
by her mother. The wound was across the threat; immedintely
under the chin, and the bead was nearly severed fruit we
body. • %
The first witness examined was an elderly woman, above,
her name darah Bushel, who deposed, she acted as nurse to tie
prisoner on her arcoucheasent of this deceaSed, and cm Mal j
occasion remained with her a month. She considered that tar*
prisoner had not been in her perfect senses sineet be peaking,
Thursday.—The death of her child, which was twenty.tww.
months old, seemed to have afferted her mind vary much. TIME
prisoner told her to go fur a pint of porter, as abet thirsty,'
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Witness went, and left her with tha deceasedl. her pi es
mother was In the next room.• She might be Mall
ten minuted, and when she came back, 'she fated' MititiC
in the chair with the deceased child In her:l
mtarlag thesarionr. the prisanifff "said', "Notts
al . ne—l've murdered my baby. `1-
Mrs. Elisabeth Moore sworn—Witness win SO ftheti •
ass, and mothet of the prisoner ; she was either 'Bs the a
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boas or the yard, she cannot say which, when prise •
nearly cut off the head of deceased.
Cottonan—Do you think she was in her right senses wil*.
she did this set? ti itiless—Oh Lord I no, 'dlr. she was not. :
Mr. Castles Mears, n surgeon. living In Brick lane, *RA
fields, deposed that the prisoner was insane at times, partic*
lady so since the death or her child.
Coat:man—Do you think she was insane since the •Tuesdal
that`the child died? Witness—l think she has bad timid ire.
terve, since the Tuesday.
CORONER—This is a point so delicate, that I think the Jury
should not enter into it. The best mode for them to pursue,
would be to retern such a verdict as would subject her to be.
tried at the Old Bailey.
The inquest room was now cleared of all strangers t Ink
after the Jury had been in warm debate fur nearly half in
hour, fourteen of them were of one opinion ; and, on our re-'
admission again to the Court, we were informed by the Coro.
ner that the verdict of the Jury was—" Wilfel Murder agsiak
Catherine Smart, the mother of the deceased."
The CORONER then issued his warrant for the clnunlttol of
Mrs. Smart to Nes-gate, on the charge of murdering her owe
infant; and the witnesses were all boum.d over to give eviderem.
at thii3Old Bailey.

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ANOTHER INFANTICIDE.
Sarah Reed, of Newington, has been folly committed foe'
trial on a charge of having murdered her own infant chil.!.
Severe! witnesses proved the boding the dead body in it
ditch.

John Gil,nore examined—l live at Streatham, and am s gar-
dener. On the I lth day of October the prisoner came to we.,
sod told nie the child which she then had in her arms belonged
to me. I said, " Sarah, you are joking, that can neverbe."—,
She replied, "It is the case ;" and she then asked me what
terms I would come to, and said she would swear it to meths.
following Saturday. I told her she did not look like a lying
in-women, and that the child she had I thought twit he a watt
old.--She then went away.--As she said she had lair
the day before she came to inc, I thought it could not be hett.,J

child. -
Thomas Lovett, a vonetsble. detooSed as follows:-1 took
Ibe prisoner Into custody en suspicion of having made away
with her child. i asked her several questions about the ettdd;
in reply to which she said she had taken it tome and keel it.—
(After eomo other enquiries she said she had made allay with.'
the child the night she had left Gilmore's; that she threw to
clothes into the lane, and drowned the child in a ditet t the Ow
intended to have taken the child to a c:iartroinan in ti wet-
green, to nurse, but her heart failed .her, and that the r..g.sta •
she drowned the child was because she had been disappoi•ited
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in the person who was the fitter, by his not taking care of ttte:
child ; that she did not know he was married, or was likely to
beaserried, before she was pat to bed, and that she had
formed him of her situation in Aug. last, at the Wbestshasi
public house in Tooting, where she was a considerable tine.
Elizabeth Gaskin, aunt to the prisoner, proved the birth 01'
the child.
The prisoner was full,

commie

trial.

Mr. Capper, of the Home Department, is um at Pot.. .4
south, superintending the arrangements, which arc WI
wade. on board the Antelope, preparatory to her co--•
ing 300 male comets to Bermuda.

MARRIED—At Edinhorgli, on the 29th of Nmettiber,S;rAtirihice 21.,
ton, Bart. of Elverdon Court, Somerset, to Mary, eldest daughter of ot
William Stewart, Esq. of Castle Stewart, and niece vi Neebetg, 'ad
iliestetth som eit
On Tuesday last, at St. Georgee, Bloomsbury', J. Johnlten• jun. " -.-
*sto n of John Johnston, Esq. of tlaneort, in the meaty of KintitttWON ,
daughter of Walter Learmonth, Esq. of Youtages street. ;
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191 E fl.—On Sunday morning bat,at Lis Wm In SpetsgilarJete, C.
Army Agent. .
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