The Express. — 1847-04-01 (London, England)

ILD M UKI/SR.—HAYAK RILATIYES.--AM Taylor, aged 21, was indicted for the wilful murder of her infant etiild, Henry Peter Taylor. Mr. Macaulay was for the I prosecution; Mr. Mellor conducted the defence. Tbe drumsances attending this case were of a very painful nature. The prisoner, a respectable and good looking person, had been in service at Leamington, and while there was seduced by a person, whose name did not transpire. When her state because apparent she lent her situation. A child being born, she went to her mother's, but she shut the door in her face, and told her if she did not go away she would give her in I charge to the police. The poor girl went to a married brother's, at Hunningham, where she and her child lived for six weeks, but the brother having 'ee-1 ceived notice to quit his cottage for harbouring his frail sister and her innocent babe, he was obliged to tell her to depart, so he himself would have no home on the following day. The prisoner, then in a weakly state, left her brother's house with her baby, about 5 o'clock on the 28th of February, when it was getting dark. She went in the direction of Leamington, to which place her sister-in-law understood she was going. Between 8 and 7 o'clock of that evening something white was seen Boating, and a gurgling noise heard, by one Page, on the water of the Warwicg and Ksapton Canal. Instead of going into the water to render assistance, Page went off for wistance, and, at the distance of 500 yards from the place in question, he fell in with one Gibbons, the tenant of the Offehurch Mill. This man went to the spot and succeeded in bringing the prisoner to the opposite side of the canal, where he held her in his arms until further assistance could be procured: it was then found she hail a baby wrapped in a shawl lying in her arms, pressed to her breast. On taking it to the light, the child was found to be dead. The night in question was • stormy one, and at the time when Gibbons took the mother end her infant out of the canal, there was a violent storm of hail. The prisoner was taken, in an inwnsibls state, to the Lion Inn, at Radford. Upon coming to herself, the Brat word she uttered was, " babe," or "baby." To a nurse who was in attendance upon her, and who inquired how she could go into the water on such a night as that, or if anybody bad pushed her in, she replied, " No; no one pushed me In; I went in myself." She then asked if her child was dead, to which the nurse replied, "She did not know • she bad not seen it." She then said, " I hope it is not ; if it is, I drowned it ; but I did not mean, without going with it." She said she had gone to her mother's; that her mother shut the door in her face ; that she should not have done it if her mother had let her in. ILis, however, appeared to have ben sons^ time back. The learned counsel made an able address for the prisoner, contending that, putting the evidence of the nurse aside, there was nothing to show the prisoner had thrown herself in. The, night was dark and stormy; the road rough. At all events, they would require the strictest proof before convicting of so serious an offence.—The judge having summed up, the fury returned a verdict of Not Cushy.-The jury, to testify their approval of Gibbons' conduct, subscribed Ms. among themselves, and the learned judge ordered a rum of Si. to be paid to him' in addition to his expenses.—The High Sheriff and the bar subscribed a liberal sum, and placed it in the hands of Mr. Adkins, the governor of the gaol, for the use of the prisoner, until a decent situation can be provided for her.