The Sun. — 1831-11-18 (London, England)

LAMBETH-STREET. On Wednesday evening Lea brought before Mr. NORTON three females,who are in the habit of attending lag-fair, and who stated the following important particulars relative to the murder of Mrs. W :d-b, and and a female, who passed as his stand cornpiirperration of which Edward Cook etodr mrtt to take their trial at the ensuing sessions, Old atik the y. One of the female,,, who gave bet name as Mary Sabel!, said that about nine or ten weeks ago a female, who went by the name 01  Cook, and who was at present in custody, came to her stall in Rag-fair, and offered for sale a pair of grey knitted worsted stockings and two caps, which she purchased from her. The stockings were of a peculiar kind, and were darned at the heels with white worsted; and one of the caps was a musi one, with a narrew lace edging, and was of a precisely similar pattern and kind as the one produced. In a few days afterwards Mrs. Cook called on her again, and showed her a plum-colour,•d figured pet,i. coat, a linen shift with a patch on, and some white cotton thread, tapes, and stay-laces, the latter of which were rolled up in a piece of blue piper, which she wanted her to buy, but she declined doing so, and recommended her to the two females present, who were likely to do so. Mrs. Cook, when offering these things, appeared cautious in showing them, and said that the did not wish everybody to see them, or that persons should know that she digposed of such things. On the morning on which Mrs. Cook was apprehended, she offered her for sale the pocket now produced, and a child's cap, but she refused to purchase them. Anne Chennell said, that on the Friday morning on which Mrs. Cook was apprehended, she bought from her the pocket now produced, which she subsequently disposed of, a boy's shirt, and a child's cap. She had also seen her offer for sale the articles described by the last witness. Mary Hayes also saw Mrs. Cook offer the articles for sale at different times. The pocket produced she could positively swear to as being the one di-.posed of by Mrs. Cook, from an iron-mould on one of its corners.  Lea said that the pocket produced he bad a short time before received from Mr. Elder, a gentleman belonging to the Ordnance Department in the Tower, whose servant had purchased it some time since from Mrs. Chennell, in Rag-fair, Elsemarv-lane. Mary Buton, the grand-daughter of Mrs. Walsh, identified the pocket produced as one which she had herself made for her grandmother, and which she was in the habit of wearing. She also said that the petticoat, stockings, and shift described by the preceding witness, as being offered for sale by Mrs. Cook, were precisely the same as those worn by her grandmother at the time she was missed. She further stated thut the old lady always had a quantity of cotton thread, laces, and tapes, which she carried about for sale, and which she kept folded in a piece of blue paper. Mr. NORTON asked Mrs. Sabell if she was aware who the person was to whom she had sold the stockings which she had purchased from Mrs. Cook; and she replied in the negative. Mr. NORTON remarked, that the evidence of these witnesses would be very important in the ca,e, and riliiested that they would attend, when the prisoners would be brought up, in order that the testimony which they had to give might be taken in their presence. Lea communicated to Mr. Norton that, according to his directions, he had the body of the female, Catherine Walsh, who had died in the London Hospital, exhumed, and though it had been interred ‘ince the 24th of September, the features were sufficiently distinct to be sworn to as being the person who had been sent there from the Ijoxton workhou,e, but both the grand-daughters of Caroline Walsh (the female who is stated to have been Burkett) denied all knowledge of her, and say that she bore not the slightest resemblance to their relative.