The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-04-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JUDGE.—She was about twenty-three years old, and was good-looking. Mary Lowry resided in Thompson-street, next door to the prisoner, on the other side of Mrs. Redmane. She was awakened on Sunday morning, the Ist of March, by a noise in Flemming's house. She heard a great scream from a female, and heard some person exclaim either " Oh ! murder," or "Oh ! mercy." Then followed a noise as if some one had leaped off the bed on to the floor. She heard another scream, and then a subdued screaming as if the person had been prevented from screaming. She heard a noise of some persons, one or two, running up and down stairs several times. She heard the back-door open and shut. On the Tuesday' following she observed that the house was closed. She had not observed it before.  By Mr. WiLxvcs.—Thomas-street is a quiet, but a public street. Flemming had always been very peaceable. She believed the_ prisoner was a married man : his wife resided with him.  Mary Stock, a night-nurse, at the Manchester Infirmary. On Sunday morning, the Ist of March, at an early hour, the prisoner at the bar, and a woman whom she had since learned was Catherine Demarest, came to the Manchester Infirmary. She was bleeding very profusely from a wound in her forehead and at her nose. Witness asked her what was the matter. She said she was shot by a gun. Witness asked where  she was at the time„ She said, -" Oh ! 1 was in the,bed."  Witness asked her who shot her. She or the prisoner. replied, " We don't know." She (witness) asked who were in the house. The prisoner replied, " None, but my wife and myself, and her" (the deceased.) She said her bed-room door was shut, but not fastened. Witness asked, if they went to bed and left the house door unfastened. The prisoner said she was the last up. She said, " I was the last up, but the door was fast enough." The prisoner, in reply to a question from the nurse, said, the girl was a widow ; lie and his wife slept in one room and the deceased in another. The deceased had on her night-gown, chemise, cloak, and a pair of old shoes. The prisoner had on only his trowsers and coat and top-coat. He had come out without his trowsers braced. Thomas Crompton stated, that in March last he was an in-patient at the Manchester Infirmary. He was called into the kitchen there on the morning of the first of March. • He saw the prisoner and Catherine Demarest. She was bleeding profusely. She said, in reply to a question from him, that a man had shot her; and the prisoner, who was very much agitated, said it was done by a man in a long top coat. Mrs. Stock recalled.—She thought the girl was the prisoner's wife, because he was so very kind and affectionate towards her, often repeating the words, " Catherine, my dear." Mary Williams, another nurse at the Infirmary, stated, that Catherine Demarest made a statement to her. Before this evidence was allowed, the house surgeon at the Infirmary, William Smith, was called. He stated, that he attended the deceased till her death. She had received a small wound on the forehead. Her eyelashes, and her eyes, and the right side of her face were scorched and marked with gunpowder. He was of opinion, that the wound on the forehead had been caused by wadding. The pistol must have been fired in a slanting direction. The wound could not have been caused by a bullet. The wound was not dangerous at first. On Friday, the Gth of March, symptoms of lockedjaw were manifested, and on Sunday they were quite confirmed, and he then knew there was no chance for her life. She died on Tuesday morning, the 10th of March. He examined her body after death, which he attributed to lockedjaw, occasioned by the wound on the head. She might have fancied that she had a bullet in her head, but he never heard her express such a fancy. He thought she was never convinced that she should not recover till the day preceding her death, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, when lie informed her that he thought she would not recover. Cross-examined by Mr. W