Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-02-11

had got come fairly to his death, they we're de-
tanned uniil police officers were sent for They =.
were arrestcd.and Afterwards underwent trial, az
detailed IN the preceding column. Bishop makes
the following confession in relation to OTHER muir
2ers committed by him and w illiams
declare this statement is all trup and that it.
contains all The facts as far as | can rccollcc..
May knew nothing of the murder, and do not
believe that he suspected that | had rot the body
except in the usual way,and after the death ofi;;I
always told him that got it ftom the ground,
and he never knew 10 the contrary until confess
sed tn Mr.. Williams since the trial. | have
known May body snaicher for lnur or
hive years, but do not believe he obtained
BODY except in the common course of men
In mat caling by stealing from the graves. L also
CONFESS that and Williams were concerned in tho
murder oil female, whom believe to have been
slnce discovered to be Fanny PigLurn, OH or about
the 9th OF October last. 1 and w illiams saw her
SUING ABOUT III O'Clock at night the step of
u0or IN "horodltch, near She church. She had Il
chud four or five years old with her on her lap. L
asked why she was sitting there. She said she
had no home to go TO for her landlord had turned
her out into the street. l told her that she might
ge home with us, and sit by tho fire all night she
said she would go with us, and she walked with us,
to my house in Nova Scotia gardens, carrying her
child with her.
When we got there wo found the family abed.
and we took the woman in and lighted fire. bv
which we al sat down together; went out for
beer, and we all took of beer and rum Il had
brought the rum from Smithfcld in my pockct3
the woman and her child laid down on some dirty
linen on the floor, and | and Williams went 10
bed. About 8 o'clocl next morning | and Will
ams told her to go away and to meet us at the Lon
don Apprentice, in Old Street road; at one o'clock;
tins was before our families up; she met us
| again at one o'clock at the London Apprentices
without her child; we gave her some halfpencc and
beer, and desired her to meet us again at 10
O'Clock at night at the same place. after this we
bought rum & laudanum at different places, and at
io O'Clock we mot the woman aga in at the London
Apprentice; she had child with her; we drank
three plnts of beer between us there aud staid
there about an hour. We should have staid there
longer but an old man in whom tho
woman SAID she knew, and she did not like
him TO see her here with any body-We
therefore all went out, il raned hard and
we took shelter under door way in the IIackcv-
road for about half an hour. We then walked TO
Nova Scotia-gardcns, and Williams and led her
INTO int No. 2, an empty house, adjoining my house.
We had no light
| Williams stepped out into the garden with Ike
rum and laudanum, which had handed 30 him;
they there mixed them together in half pint bot
tie, and came into the house TO me and the woman
and gave her the bottle to drink, she drank the
whole at two or three draughts; there was quar-
tern OF rum' and about half phi0l of laudanum;
she sat down on the step between two rooms i'm the
house, and went off to sleep in about ten miultcs
She was falling back caught her to save her fall,
| aud she laid back on tho floor. Then Williams
| and went to public house, got sometime TO
drink, and in about half an hour came back to The
woman. We took her cloak off, tied cord to her
ieet, carried her TO the well the garden and
thrust her into it hcadlong she struggled very little
| afterwards, and the water dubbed a little al tho
| tot. we tastcncu the cord TO the pangs to pre-
| vent her going down beyond our reach and left
| her. and took walk to Shoredch and back i'm
about half an hour.-We left the woman i'm the
well for this length time, that the rum and lauda
| mum might run out of the body at the mouth On
our return we took her out of the we'll cut her
clothes off, put thom down the PRIV of the e,nptv
mouse; carried the body into the wash house of inv
own house. where doubled it IN and put Il in
to hair box, which we corded, and left il there.
The body was disposed of at ST. Thomas's Hos.
pita for eight guineasl
l never saw the womans child after the first
time before mentioned. She said she had Icc, the
child with person she had taken some of her
tnlngs to, before her landlord took her goods
Inc woman murdered did not tell us her name; she
sara her age was 30, think and that her husband
before he died, cabinet maker Sho was
thin, rather tall and very much marked with the
small pox. i also confess the murder eff bow
VINO told us his name Cunningham 1t was n
tUUiirnlght after the murder of the l and
Williams found him sleeping, about ii or IL
o'clock at night, Friday, the 2lst Oct as /
think, under the pig boards in the pig market in
omlthheld. Williams awoke him and asked him to
come along with nm (WilliamsD and the boy
walked with Williams and me TO my house in No
va Scotia Gardens. We took him into my house
and gave him some warm beer, swcctened with su
gar, with rum and laudanum in it, He drank two
cnair belonging to one of my children. We laid
nm on the floor, and went out for a little while
ana got something TO drink, and then returned
carried the boy to the well, and threw him into it,
Ih the same way as we had served the other bow
ana the woman He died instantly in the we'll
and we left him there little while TO rive timo
Tor the mixtures we had given him to run out of
the body.
We then took the body from the well, took off
ire clothes IN the garden, and buried them there
The body we carried into the wash house, and nut
it into the same box and left it there till the next G.
Vcning, when we got porter TO carry it to ST Bar
.holomew's Hospital, where | sold it to Mr.. Smith
for eight gumeas. This boy was about 10 or /
years old, said his mother lived in Kent ytrccr
and that he had not been home for a twe!ye.month
and better.
know nothing of an Italian boy, and was me-
yer concerned in, or knew of, the murder of such
a BOY Until the transactions before set forth I
never was concerned in obtaining a subject by
destruction of the living. | have followed tho
course OF obtaining Ivclyhood as a body.snatchcr
ior Twelve years, and have obuined and sold |
think, from 500 to 1000 bodies; but declare be-
lore COD that they were all obtained after death
ana That, with the above exceptions am ignorant
oil any murder for that or any other purpose.
Wv ''JOHN BISHOP"
Witness ROBERT ELLIS, Under.Shcrifr
Besides the foregoing statement Bishop and Will
hams, Just before going to execution confessed
that they had attempted to murder two men bv
giving them la udanum, but the dose havinr failed
in both instances, they escaped.
5 Z rs e. IL "a k IA g. =.