The Sun. — 1837-04-13 (London, England)

RECORDER-With respect to the female prisoner I can only say, at present, that if there is any thing in her case of a favourable nature, so as to induce a mitigation of her sentence, she may refer to the Secretary of State, who, if he see cause, will review the proceedings, and act under the advice and discretion of the responsible officers of the Crown.  The female prisoner was then ordered to stand by for a short time, and Greenacro remained at the bar to receive his awful judgment. Mr. Cheffinch, the crier of the Court, then made proclamation, and commanded all manner of persons to keep profound silence while sentence of death was being passed upon the prisoner. The RECORDER then addresssed the convict to the following effect, his Lordship being, even at the commencement of his his awful duty, deeply affected :—" James Greenacre, after a protracted trial, which has occupied two entire days, upon a patient and impartial investigation of the circumstances by a jury of your country, they have found themselves compelled to pronounce you guilty of the heinous offence charged in this indictment. You have been convicted upon clear and conclusive evidence of the dreadful crime of murder. The appalling details of your dreadful case, are fresh in the recollection of all those who are within the sound of my voice, and will long live in the memory, and may I not add, in the execration of mankind, and go down to succeeding generations. You have, indeed, acquired an odious celebrity—an awful notoriety—in the annals of cruelty and of crime. The measures to which you have been permitted by Providence to resort for the concealment of your dreadful crime were attended for a season with partial success ; but it was only permitted that during the short interval accumulated evidence and irrefragable proofs of guilt should be adduced. During that period the amputated limbs and the severed trunk have been united to the bloodless head of your wretched victim. It has been proved that one of the injuries on the head was inflicted, in all probability, in the lock of the canal, where it was cast; and it was also proved, without a sense of compassion, you must have inflicted other mortal injuries, and imbrued your hands in the life's blood of your wretched victim before that life was extinct. The horrible spectacle which the mutilated remains presented proved the fact that slaughter must have been committed, and that death was not occasioned (as you insinuate) by accident. Science had been called in aid, and it has proved to a demonstration that the contusion on the eye was inflicted before the death of the unfortunate woman ; and it is plain that you washed your hands in the blood which flowed from wounds of your own infliction. The horror of contemplating this spectacle compels me to draw a veil over this examination, and refrain from recapitulating the particulars of your frightful and heinous sin. It may be better to consider what benefit may be derived in a moral point of view from your transgressions, through the agency of an Almighty power. Your offence in the first place excited alarm. The mystery, however, in which it was enveloped, and the publicity which followed, were the means of the family of the deceased having their attention directed to it and the cause of her identification, and ultimately produced the apprehension of the delinquent, and the bringing him to the bar of public justice. This shows that, however guilt may be hidden for a time, sooner or later the guilty will be discovered and brought to condign and deserved pu