Star. — 1807-02-21 (London, England)

TRIALS FOR MURDER.  Elizabeth Godfrey, a woman of the town, was capi. tally indifted for the wilful murder of Richard Prince, in Mary-la-Bonne Parilh, on the 2sth December lafl, by giving him a mortal wound with a pocket knife in the left eye, of which wound he languifhed and died. It appeared from the tetlimonv of Emily Biffet,who cohabited with the deceafed, that the Prifoner had come to lodge, tour days before the unfortunate event, in the fame houfe, and in a back apartment of the lame floor. That two nights before the tranfation, itf confequence of fame altercation between the prifoner and a man the had brought to her apartment, and who complained of being t obbed of 18s. the deceafed had called in the watch, and lent the p:ifoner to the watch houfe, where the was detained all night ; that on Chtifimas day, about five in the afternoon, as the witnefs and the deceafed lat at tea, they heard a tap t their room door ; the deceafed opened it, and tieing nobody, doled it again. Immediately another •ap was heard; he went a fecond time, when the wit. nets Aced him why he did not take the candle ? It was the prifoner who rapped, and faid the wanted to fpeak to the deceafed, who went out to the landing place. The prifoner afked him why he troubled his head about fetching the watch to take her up fome evenings fince ? and the witnefs immediately heard her exclaim "tale that !" The deceafed inflantly came hack into the room, Paid he was a dead man, and pulled out of hi, left eye a knife which had been (luck into is by the pi hinter, which he threw upon the flor,r. It appeared bent and bloody:-., Mr. Scott, the mailer of the houfe, ran up (lairs, and afked how the prifoner could be fu wicked as to do fuch an a& towards a fellow creature ? She anfwered, ,‘ It fervcd him right." Witnefs scent for a furgeon, and the deceafed was conveyed to the Middlefex Hofpital, where he languifhed until the 18th-of January, and then died. The deceafed was a Gentleman's coachman. Witnefs knew of no previous acquaintance between them : they had fome altercation the day before, at a o'clock, but witnefs never Paw her afterwards, until the deed was perpetrated. _  William Scott. the landlord of the lodgings, fuftaincd the evidence aa tar as related to him, and faid, when he (poke its the prifoner, immediately afterwards, the had. cafe knife in her hand. After the prifoner had beeteliberated, on the previous day, from the watch houfe, the witnefs advifed her to think- no more of it ; but the faid, though the had no man to take her part, the would not put up with it, nor let it drop in that manner.  On his crofs examination, he faid the prifoner corn• plained that the deceafed had cut her hand, and heard fomething in the houfe about her getting a warrant for him at Bori•firect.  Mr. Barry, Surgeon of the Middlefer Hofpital, who attended the deceafed, proved that the wound in his eye was the caufe of his death. The prifoner (poke at fome length in her defence ; Paid the had been beaten and ill treated by the deceded, who fnatelted her patten from her hand, aimed two blows at her'head, and wounded her with it in the arm, and that at tl.c time of giving the wound, he had tiruck at her; when the ran into her room, caught up the knife in the dark, not knowing what it was, and (truck the deceafed, without any intention to kill him. Mr. JWIICC HbATH (rimmed up the evidence, and the Jai y found the prifoner—Guilty. I'he RrCORDSR immediately pronounced fentence of death upon her, to be executed on Monday. Immediately all her fit mnefs and recolleaion feemed to fail her, an,i the appeared bordering upon a (fate of phreray.