Star. — 1828-09-13 (London, England)

OLD COURT. Before Mr. Justice Lielamas.' and Barge Vaunran. Margaret Hartigais was charged with the murder of a child, aged five months, of the name if Maly Moore, an the 26th if August, by pouring a quantity of boil'. ing water over it. Mr. CLAagsom. on the part of the defendant, st ited, that in consequence of the child being stated in one of the counts of the indictment to be a child unknown, and pieriouslr having been de,cribed by name, be submitted that the indictment could not stand.  Mr. ADHLPHOs, for the prosecution, stated, that the indictment contained different count., with various isames, in consequence of a recent conviction ; and if it could be shown that she was guilty on any one of the counts, it was sufficient. The difficulty in question arose from the child being illegitimate. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said, he would wait for the result of the trial, when the Learned Counsel (Mr. Clarkson) would again mention the subject. Mr. Annruns stated the case for the prosecution. Catherine Crawley deposed, that she was the mother of the murdered child ; she remembered the 26th of • Angola; her child was then living, and was nearly six months old ; she knew the mother of the :prisoner, as she lived in the same room with the witness; their lodging was in Crown-court, Whitechapel ; three or four families lived in the room; on the 26th August 'he saw the prisoner for the first time in the room in which she lived; there were three or four other persons in the room ; this was about four o'clock in the after• noon; there were also three children in the room ; her child was on the bed, as was also a child of the prisoner's; there was a kettle on the fire ; the prisoner told her mother to take it off, as it Was boiling ; her mother did so, and put it on the hearthstone; the prisoner'. mother took hold of Toone?, one of the women in the room, and asked her what she did there? Toooey said she was in her proper place, as she was with her gi)ssip, Mrs. Smith; the prisoner then struck her with a stone bottle on the side of the head ; Mrs. Toomey said she did not expect such a reception when she paid a visit; the prisoner again struck Tooney in the face; Tenney had her child in her arras ; she then put bee child into the witness's lap, and began to fight the pri• soner, and knocked her down ; the witness: child was on the bed all this time ; Tooney did not strike the prison. r with violence; the prisoner's mother and brother then began to beat Toone?, and the witness got up and endeavoured to part them, saying that it was a shame fur two to set on one; the prisoner screamed out " Murder r on Tooney's bearing her; a woman named Anderson came into the room and helped the witness to separate them. She had put Tooney's childon the bed with her own child and the prisoner's • on the witness's separating her from Tooney, tin; prisoner struck the witness. Anderson then separated them ; the prisoner then took her own child off the bed, took up the kettle of boiling water from the hearth, and said, " that if she could not get her revenge on the women, she would on the children," and immediately threw the kettle of boiling water on the children, and ram with her own child out of the room. The lid was on the kettle when she threw it on the bed ; the children were at the head of the bed; she put down her own child when she threw the kettle, and took it up again immediately after, and ran away ; the prisoner threw the kettle against the wall at the head of the bed, and it fell on the bed; the witness immediately took up her own child and dip,red it in a tub of cold water which was in the room ; the child's cloches were soaked with the water, and so hot that they burnt the witness's fingers; she then screamed out " Murder r and some man came into the room and took the child to the hos. pital ; it died the neat day ; the child when put on the bed -was in very good health. Cross-examined by Mr.