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and went again, and bad some more coffee
Al the same place in Old street road, whers
We staid ah,tle while, and then went hume
TO bed, both 10 the ssme hoase. and 20 our
own beds as usual. We slept iii about ten
O'Clock on Friday morning, when we got OF
took breakfast together with the family.
aau then both VI US went to Sm,thhsld, the
Fortune OF War. We had something to eat
and drink there; and ailes we bad been there
about half an hour May came in.
The parties subsequently, returned to
bishops house, and the narrative then pro
ceed.--l
We went into the ware house, where un
eoraed the trunk aud showed May the body.
lie asked, show are the teeth" | sald
had moi looked at thefH. Williams went
ano fetched brad avn from the house, and
Aiay took II and forced the teeth ont. Ii Is
the constant practice 10 take the teeth out
first, because II the body be lost, the teeth
are saved After the teeth were taken out.
We put the body IN bag and took Il 10 this
chariot. May aud | carried the body and
Williams got FIRST into the coach, aud then
assisted IN pulling the body in
The parties finally arrived with the body
al kings College. where they offered IL fer
sale, out suspicious having been excited that
the boy bad not come fairly 10 his death, they
were detained until police officers were sent
Tor. They were arrested. and afterwards nn
derwent trial Bishop makes the following
confession IN relation 10 other murders com
mitted 10y INN and W illatnsl
decla g that THIS statement is all true and
that II contains al the facts as far as can
rceol.ect. May knew nothing oil the murder,
ana do not believe that be suspected that /
han got the body except in the ugual way, .
and after the death Of IT, | always told him
that got IL from the ground, and he never
to the contrary unisl confessed 10 mir VIII
iiains since the trial | have known Nav az
body snatchcr for four or i've years, but &
do not believe he ever obtained a body OF
ccpt IN the common course OF ascn Ia thai,
calling, toy stealing from the graves. | anu
Williams were concerned IN the murder OF a
female, whom ] believe to have been since
discovered to be Fanny Pigburn, on or about
the 9th Of October last. | and Williams saw
her sitting about 1 o'clock at night on the
top oil door in Shoreditch, near the church.
She had q child about four or five years old
with her on her lap asked why sho was
sitting there. She said she had no home to
20 10, for her landlord had turned her out IN
the street. told her that she might go home
With US anu SIT by the fire all night; she said
she would go with MS, and she walked with
US to my house In Nova Scotia gardens, car
ryins her child with Ter
When we got there we found the family
bed and we took the woman IN and lighted
a, Ere, b, which we all sat down together Il
went out for beer, and we all took oil beer
ana rum Il had broesh, the rum from Smith
field IN my pockci;) the woman and her chad
lad down on some dirty linen on lie floor.
Exl A -
O'Clock next morning | and Williams told
Der 10 go away, and meet us at the London
Apprentice. in old street road, at one o'clock;
this WAS before our families were up; she met
US agaf at one o'clock at the London Ap
prentice without her child, we gave her some
hall pence and beer, aud desired her 10 meet
as again al ten O'Clock at night at the salne
place; after this we bought rum and iauaa
aum at different places and at ten O'Clock
we met the woman again at the London APP
prentice, sire ha! no child with her; we drank
three piats oil beer between us there, ana
staid the. c about an hour. We should have
stopped longer, but an old man came in,
whom the woman said she knew, aud she
did not like him To see her there with any
body We therefore all went out; IL rajntd
hard, and we took shelter under a doorway
in the Hackney road for about half an hour
We then walked 80 Nova Scotia gardens, 4
Williams and | led her into no. 2 ian empty
house) adjoining my house We had no
light.
W lll,ams stepped out into the garden with
the UNI and laudanum, which had handed
to him, he there mixed them together in a
hall pint bottle. and came into the house TO
me and the woman and gave her the bottle
t, d ink, she drank the whole at two or three
drau1hts, there WAS qnartern Of ram. ami
ABORT halt a phial of laudanum; she sat
down on the step between two rooms in the
Aouse. aud went to sleep in about ten minutes.
ohe aas falling back; caught her 10 save
her fall, and she laid back on the floor. =
Then Williams and went to a public house,
got something 10 drink, and about bali an
hour after came back to the woman. We
took her cloak of, aud tied cord TO her
leet, carried her to the well in the garden,
md thrust her into il headlong, she struggled
very little afterwards, and the water buoOled
a little al the top We fastened tie cord TO
The palms to prevent her going down beyond
our reach aud left her, and took walk 10
shore tch and tack in about bali an hour
We left the woman in the well FOR tais lengh
81 time, that the rum and laudnuDi might run
out OF tile body at the mouth. --On
On our return We took her out Of the well,
cat her clothes or. put them down tie prsJ
OF the empty house; carried the body INTO Tie
wash house of my own house, where we dou
bled it up and put il into hair box, wincf
we corded, and left 1t there.
[fhe body was disposed Of at 81 Thomas
Hospital for eight guIneasl