Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-02-11
From the London Morning Herald, Dec. G.
TIE BURkTTES

IftE BUR KITES.
| CONFESSION OF THE MURDERERS
BY the great kindness of Mr.. Shcrl # Pine.
Mr. Under Sheriff f lis, and Mr. Won,nrr, we
are enabled to give tn, following exact comics
from the original confessions of the prisonc re-
Bishop and Williams
"NEwGATE, Dec. a. 1881
81, John Bishop, do hereby declare and con-
less that the boy supposed to be the Italian Boy
was Lincolnshire boy. | and Williams took
MN to my house about half-past ten O'Clock on
! the Thursday night, the 81 of November. from
the Bell IN Smlthfield.-He walked home vii h
us. Williams promised to give him some work
Williams went with him from the Bell to the
VIA ha'iev watering house, whilst [ went to the
fortune OF War. Williams came from The Old
Bailey watering house to the Fortune of War
Tor me, leaving the boy standing at the corner
OF the court by the watering house in the Ola
Bailey. went directly with Williams to the
boy, and we walked then all three to Nova
Scotia-gandens, taking pint of stout at pub
lie house near Hooway-ane, ShoreGitcb. on
our way, of which we gave the boy part. We
only stald Just to drink, and walked on to nv
mouse, where we arrived at about / o'clock
My wife and children and Mrs. Williams
were not gone to bed, put him in the
prlVy, and told him to wait there for u.s. VIII
hams went in and told them to 90 to bed and
staid in the garden. Williams came ont d.
rectly, and we both walked out of the garden
little wayto give time for the family gett NO to bed
we returned ina about 10 MINUTES or quarter
OF an hour, and listened outside at the window
to ascertain whether the family were gone to
bcd. All was quiet, and we then went to the
boy in the privy and took him into the house:
we lighted candle, and gave the boy some bread
ana cheese, and, after he had eaten, we gave
hlm cup-ful of rum, about half a small phial
or audanum in it. Il had bought the rum the
same evening at the Three TONS, in Smithfie!d.
ana the iaudanum also, in small quantities, at DIFF
OH H..
liquid put In the cup with the rum and Iauda-
mum. The boy drank the contents of the cup
directly IN two draughts, and afterwards little
peer. In about 10 minutes he fell asleep on the
char on which he sat, and ] removed him from
the chair to the floor. and laid him on bis side
We then went out and left him there We had
q quarern of gin and pint of beer at the Fe,.
theirs, near Shoredltch church, and then went
home again, having been away from the bow a.
bout 90 minutes
we found him asleep we had left him
We took him drec,ly-aslecD and insensible-
into the garden and tied cord TO his feet to
enable us to pull him up by, and ] then took him
IN my arms, and let him slide from them head
long into the well in the garden, whilst Williams
heid the cord to prevent the body going alto.
gether too low in the we'll He was nearly
wholly IN the water of the well-his feet Just
above the surface. Williams fastened the
other end of the cord round the paling, 10 pre-
vent the body getting beyond our reach The
boy struggled little with his arms and legs i'm
the water, and the water dubbed for minute.
we waited till these symptoms were pas; and
then went in doors, and afterwards / think we
went out, and walked down ShoredJtch to oc-
cupy the time, and in about three quarters of an
hour we returned and took him out Of the well
by pulling him by the cord attached to ms feet:
we undressed him in the paved yard, rolled his
clothes up, and buried them where they were
tound by the witness who produced them, We
carried the boy into the wash-house laid him on
me floor, and covered him over with Dag
we LETT him there, and went and had some cof
fee III Old street road, and then Ia little before
two IN the morning Of FriJav) went back TO
my house. We Immediately doubled the body
up, and put II in a box, which we corded so that
nobody might open it to see what was IN it; and
went again, and had some more cOfr,c at the
same place in Old street road, where we staid =
little while, md then went home to bed both
IN The same house, and to our own beds as usual
We slept till about ten o'clock on Friday morn
ing, whom we got up--toOk breakfast together
with the family, and then went both of us 10
Smlthheld, to the Fortune of War We had
something 10 eat ond drink there; and after we
mad been there about Ealf an hour Nav came
IN.
The perties subsequently returned to Bisb
ops mouse, and the narrative then proceeds
we went into the wa -h-huuse where uncOrd
ed he trunk and showed May the body. lie
asked, chow are the teeth?" ] said hoG not
looked at them. Williams went and fetched
0rad-swl from the house, and May took it and
forced the teeth out. 1t j. the constant prac-
tee to take the teeth out FIRST, because, if the
body be lost the teeth are saved. Bfer the
teeth were taken ont, we put the body in bag
and took it TO the chariot. May and | carried the
body, and Williams got first into the coach
and then assisted IN pulling the body in.
1.-THE parties finally arrived with the body Mt
Kings College, where they offered it for sale,