The Sun. — 1835-02-06 (London, England)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.)  OLD COURT. Georgiana Clark was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry Jenkins, on the 24th of January last. No Counsel appeared for the prosecutor; Mr. CLARKSON defended the prisoner. Stanley, a beadle of St. Pancras, stated that on Monday evening, the 26th of January, as he was passing Argyle Place, he saw a number of persons collected ; on going into the house opposite which the crowd was collected, on the first floor he saw a number of persons in the room, with a man lying dead on the bed. The prisoner was sitting at the side of the bed. Witness asked prisoner how the deceased came by the cut on the side ? To which she said, by cutting a piece of wood to put on the fire. Asked her if she was a married woman, to which she replied that she was, and that the deceased was her husband. Asked her where the knife was ; on which a person named Phoebe Davidson came up stairs, and fetched it from the cupboard. Witness asked Davidson if it was the knife ; to which she replied it was—she could swear to it ; and on showing it to her, the prisoner then acknowledged that it was it. Asked the prisoner again if she was married, and she then s :id she was not. Asked her if she had had any quarrel with the deceased ; to which the prisoner replied she had, concerning Phoebe Davidson, on Saturday. Witness not feeling satisfied, snit for the serjeant of police, when witness and the serjeant went together to a surgeon named Jones, who had attended him, from which that gentleman stated they took the prisoner into custody. Witness then took possession of the deceased's clothes; on examining which he discovered a large cut through the gi eat coat, two waistcoats and a shirt, similar in size to the wound on the breast of the deceased The cuts in the wearing apparel appeared to have been made by a knife similar to that produced by witness. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON —The prisoner and all present appeared much distressed at the death of the deceased. Sergeant Campbell, E 14, went with the last witness to the house where the body of the deceased lay. Prisoner admitted that she cohabited with the d.tetased, who, while cutting some wood to put on the fire to fry some sausages on Saturday, I..tt the knife slip, which entered his side. The nri.•.,One; said there was no other person in the roorn,but when the accident happened, and that she did not 7.:iarm any ether persons in the house previous to fetching the doctor. Prisoner, on being asked, said the deceased and herself were quite good friends at the time of the accident. Upon being further pressed, she said, I will tell the truth : we had had a few words; he lifted his hand to strike me ; I turned my back towards him, and the same moment I saw that he lifted his hands, he exclaimed, " Oh, I am cut." Witness asked her how she could reconcile this to her former statement, as it was impossible for the deceased to cut the wood and strike her at the same moment. To this the prisoner made no reply. Witness then told her he felt it his duty to take her into custody. The prisoner appeared very much distressed and agitated. She threw herself on the corpse, and it was with great difficulty witness could get her away. Phcebe Davidson was present during the whole of the conversation. The prisoner remained all night with witness, in the course of which she said—" 0 Jenkins, Jenkins ! I little thought it would ever come to this. You have often threatened you would stab me, but I little thought it would come to this." Witness said, you dont mean to say he stabbed himself, to which the prisoner replied—" I cant say—his back was turned to me." Witness said, I thought you lived 'happily together, to which the prisoner replied " he has often beat me and left me weltering in my blood, as my landlady next door well knows." Cross-examined by Mr.