Star. — 1827-09-15 (London, England)

CRIATOR. The wretched woman, upon recovering from the hysterics with which she was for a length of time affected, became more composed, but was so excessively feeble :and weak, that the attendants placed her upon the bed which the apartment afforded. She then declared she de• served to die, and was anxious to employ the remainder of her time in penitential prayer, and requested some of the persons present would occasionally read prayers to her: She was informed by Mr. WORTNER that every assistance in the practice of her religious and penetential devotions would be rendered her, but the rigid regulations of restraint for persons in her situation would be practised, therefore she would be left to pursue her sorrowful meditations in quiet. However since, the regulations have been relaxed, and two female attendants have been constantly with her. The Ordinary last night, upon taking his leave for that evening, pressed her as to the motive she could have for destroying her husband in so horrible a manner. She etook her head, and bursting into tears, assigned as a motive that it was jealousy, and said she would make a full confession in the morning. The unfortunate woman during the past night has continually bewailed her situation, and her groans are described as very distressing. Upon the return of day, however, she became more calm, and appears to contemplate the approach of death with composure. At a very early hour the Ordinary and Mr. BAKER were in her cell, and she joined fervently in the Morning Prayers; after which she made a confession, the purport of which was, that she had lived very unhappily with her husband for some time before his death, suspecting him with intriguing with other women ; this preyed upon her mind for a considerable time, until she fancied that her, suspicions were fully grounded : she then maddened with jealous rage, resolved upon revenge, and determined upon killing him. This thought occupied her mind for two months before she hit upon the method; and at length, prompted by the Devil, she hit upon the' plan pt. infusing poison ilk the flour with which she composed the dumpling, as the safest.— She purchased this poison designedly above two miles from her home, saying to the chymist, she wished to destroy rats. She bought threepence worth, and kept it concealed five weeks in her room before she so fatally put it into use. On that day she made a dumpling of suet and flour, and mixed the deadly mi. neral with the ingiedients. Her husband came home to his dinner ; he was in unusually good spirits, and addressed her very affectionately.• She then says she for a moment relented, but the horrid thought that he was only dissembling flushed across her mind, and steeled her purpose; she placed the poisoned fond upon the table, and her husband partook very heartily, consuming nearly two•thirds of the dumpling. He was suddenly seized with a violent nausea, and fell back in his chair, the perspiration bursting from every pore, he exclaimed, " Oh, my GOD, what a cramp 1 have got in my stomach !" He then got up and became sick (the rest of his dreadful sufferings are already known to the public). She says she ate the remainder of the pudding with the hope that it would prove fatal to herself, so horror-stricken was she at the excruciating pains the poison bad brought upon her hopeless husband. She declares she was not sensible of anything until the day after, when she felt all the pangs of the keenest remorse.--She is now reconciled to her fate, and is fully sensible of the great enormity of her crime, declaring .he has expected nothing else but a public death since her confinement in Newgate. Thursday night the Rev. Dr. COLBRRT, of Mite-end, while crossing the fields between the Bird Cage and Pollard's Pond, Bethoal-green, was stopped by three fellows, and robbed of his watch, and about 61.  OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, FRIDAY, Starr. 14. After the sentence of death had been passed on Mary Wiftenback, for murder, the prisoner was afterwards brought again into Cuurt, in order, that the sentence passed upon her might be amended by the addition of the words, " and that your body be delivered to the surgeons to be dis,ected and anatomized, according to the statute," which had been inadvertently omitted by the