The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-05-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HIS 'IFE.  Yesterday morning, at the Central Criminal Court,. Thomas Fuller Bacon and Martha Bacon were indicted for the murder of their two childr"eii, Elwiri Fuller Bacon and Maaaba Bacon. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk appeared for the presecution. Alt. Sleigh and Mr, Poland defended Mrs. Bacon, and Messrs. ne,Dpi Inoesoticpt iaeolnnfie9iagantwdhehLi ccahawshreeefntochreetnahpes ptpoeroaodrsee pd rosecution, 113ona:Alsan6, IPilra.ceßdo would be his duty to lay before the jury facts and circinnal.ances:to bring-home to the prisoners at the bar the charg,e' of murder. The case was one of the most extraordinaryhind tiiztt ta.d occurred for some time; and the fart that the 'PriOnera were man and wife, and the victims ther children, added to the heinousness of the crime. The learned gehtleman then proceeded to detail tlferacts of the case, which have already appeared in owe :columns ; and, in: • the course of his observations, said it was his duty to inform the jury that the female prisoner had been confined in a lunatic asylum, and that she only quitted that asylum two months before the commission of the murder; but the version she had given of the murder, namAy, that a man had entered the window awl killed her children and attempted to cut her throat, was irrational, absurd, and unworthy of belief, for the police had examined the place' and NUid the windowt fastened inside,-and -that the dust and ground about the place had not been distdrbed in the' slightest manner. Having allUded,toßacon's version orthe'murder, he said he should Mil] lay hefora them eviLendctehtaottphreowvehiotlseesnttoirrye falsity, and he would prove that he neither lost a watch, • note, nor clothea on the occasion, about the robbery was a fabrication, and was only invented to dr-aw Ott:roil/111m the suspicion that attached to him respecting the murder. With respect to blood found on the. trousers of the male prisoner, he accounted for it by saying that ho cut his finger at dinner on the Sunday previous to the discovery of the murder. That also was untrue. _ On the Sunday in question he should prove that he wore black trousers, and that being the case,df he. had cut his titiger on that occasion the blood would have been found on the black trousers and not on those worn every day by the prisoner. The jury would take into their consideration the circumstance that the female prisoner had been subject- to aberrations of mind ; but in order to acquit her on account of the state of her mind, it must be shown that she was in such a state of mind as to be unable to distinguish between right and wrong. r The learned gehtleman concluded his remarks by hoping that an all—wise Providence would guide them to a right conclusion. A variety of evidence was entered into, and the case :for the prosecution was coucluded. It is only a reiteration of what we have prOViously publiihed. This Day, (Thursday) the evidence far the defence will be given. Mr. Reed, the chief constable of Stamford, is present during the trial, in order, in the event of an acquittal of Bacon, to execute a warrant signed'h7 the coroner against hire for the murder of his mother: