Glasgow Courier. — 1847-11-06 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LTE MURDERS IN BIRMINGHAM. FRIDAY Nionr.—This evening an inquest was horpe Arms, Holloway-head, before Dr. Birt Coroner, upon the body of Ann Wilkes, the I for the murder of her four children, and who Hospital on Thursday morning. Is Journal says, "The unfortunate woman was a rable nerve. She bore up under her sufferings ad even resignation, as will be seen from the he inquest of her conduct; but when near the er existence she was torn by agony of body and iterally a violent death. Sometime before that she ridiculed the idea that she had purchased o nerve herself for the dreadful slaughter of her I she had a greater and more imperative impulse. sly attended during her brief illness by the Rev. the chaplain of the hospital, who strove to adminonsolattons of religion. She was rational until ime before her dissolution, which took place on about one o'clock." her case was held on Friday. It did not appear exhibited ally evidences of unsound Mad. She 6 hope to the surgeon who attended her that she a., an she would have much to go through. . Miller stated as follows :—I have had converseceased more than once, as a clergyman. She said a conversations regarding the cause of her own it conversation took place about four o'clock on Nothing passed relating to the point of inevening, understanding that inquiry to be as to I' death. The only remark I made in connexion , after praying with her, telling her that God had with her in allowing her to live some time to reidea that she would live. No particular remark her own bodily condition. I took the whole case mind chiefly -running on the children; but she aterer to show that she had laid hands on herself. e hoped the little time she had to live was given ice. —Now, Mr. Miller, did she say anything about am I bound to answer that question? I ask it aced in a very delicate situation. —You are bound to answer it. • trust that you will not consider that I asked the any feeling of disrespect to the court; but the 5 made to me, although given without any express e, as I afterwards found, made under the impreshould be kept sacred. —You are bound to answer my questions. The tn tried over and over again at the Court of Queen's where, and priests, clergymen, and all other per. ' tempt. The only excesions arc barristers and ire can, therefore, be no doubt that you are bound isestions which shall be put to you. teeing that such is the case, and that that is the I state that there can be no doubt that she made 'ins that she murdered her children. She did She referred simply to the children. She snit she had committed the deed. My she murdered them about two o'clock -*it her motives, and iny her cir' her if  eestood, and that don in such cases . id of an occasion 'lv upon the subject. d Hale—" that the circut, weighed by judge and jury, lest on if inhumanity towards the defects of hu ier side too great an indulgence given feet is as great as the other, or, if there b n the two, severity is in all probability the the end. Whenever a jury feel disposed e would forbid, let them picture to themictitu, or any innocent person of their owr fering from the effects of his lawless less apt than at present to encourage oughoot the country. as briefly as , be the or readers to he fired upon e was doing' is influence