The National Register. — 1818-01-04 (London, England)

SENTENCE.—GuEItirstY COUZT ROYAL, D tc. 6.—Margaret Mackenzie, of the town and parish of St. Pierre Port, a prisoner in the public gaol, was brought up before the Court to receive sentence. The crime of which she was convicted was, that she did feloniously kill a male infant, which the said Margaret Azhcnzie was delivered of between the hours of 9 o'clock on the even leg of the 16th October, and of 9 o'clock in the morning of the 17th October, iBl7, in the house of John Jeremie, E9(l. where the said Mackenzie lived as a servant, in the town of St. Peter's Port, the said Mackenzie having concealed her pregnancy. This day at 1Y o'clock, the sentence passed upon her was put in execution in the following manner :-.—The prisoner was conducted from the prison to the court. house, between the halberdiers, and in one of the lower rooms she was stripped barefoot, and cloathed in a white shift made for the occasion : she was bare headed, and from that room she was led up Stairs to the door of the court, where she received from the hangman re.recuteur des hanks aware.) a lighted candle, weighing two pounds, and two feet long, made expressly for the purpose. Thus equipped, she presented herself at the bar of the eourt ; and falling on her knees, she askal pardon for her crimes, in these words:—" I ask pardon of God, the King, and of justice !" An immene crowd of people were present, who came fsoin all parts of Gnernsey to witness se novel a spectacle. BA ILL% au s M till DE IL—Aboul noon on Thursday last. the body of a man was discovered, throuAh the pillucidness of the water, lying at the bottom of the river idden, on the east side of the raceground, near this city. Assistance being procured, the body was brought to the surface ; when it presented a shocking spectacle of brutal treatment. The corpse was very indifferently apparelled, and the clothes were muclitorn aesl discomposed, as if in consequence of a very violent souffle. The head exhibited a number of deadly wounds, which had apparently been given with a hatchet or some other sharp instrument, with great force, as one of the blows had cloven the skull in two; considerable marks of violence were also apparent on the head close to the ears, and his nose was completely er. a•tr94., arof t k.! :so ly V/ II 10.1 11, the tr.eck of a horse's feet and wheels of a cart were plainly made out from the Swifts low gate to the upper gate, where the cart seems to have turned back and proceeded in the direction in which it came. It would appear, that the body had been conveyed across the ground to the river and thrown in. It is proper to state here, that about 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning last., the rumbling of a horse and cart was 'heard by persons living in the range of buildings Is Avreen Rickergate and the Swifts; at which time, it is extremely probable, the crud miscreants were about disposing of the mangled remains si their victim. A Coroner's inquest was held the nett day before lei Mullender. Esq. when the jury, without hesitation, brought in a verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown. The deceased was a man of about 30 years of age, of robust make, a'..wout five feet seven or eight inches high, had dark hair, and possessed the appearance and garb of a cattle driver front Irelan -Every exertion has been made by the Clerk of the i'etee and t-.: Coroner to discover sonic due to this shocking and hitherto mysterious transaction, but without effect. We Quit, 1101Vercr, Wsil no be tel Journal,  /WE