DREADFUL SUICIDE, AND ATTEMPT TO KILL

... DftEADFUL SUICIDE, AND ATTEND1T TO KILL. Mrs Jane Thwaites, a respectable widow lady, about 46years of age, who was a householder in Clerkenwell parish, about twenty years, and kept ! the hUseNo. 2. in Hooper Street, After cutting the throat of her son ...

HORRIBLE ATROCITY

... heard, and having beckoned the child out of the room, locked the f roobb'r ui? in the chamber. She then desired the child to e run to tie village, to apprise his father, and desire him , to brhig assistamnce. h the child did not lose an instant , but by ...

ESSEX ASSIZES

... ROASTING A CHILD. ELIZAIETa HUNTER and REBECCA jeRvIS werearraignmd upon an infiidtnient for stripping a child naked and roasting it ?? the are until it was badly scorched and beurned. Thsir trial stands for tonmorrow. The afnfortunate child wa3 one put ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... were ignorant af her being' with child, which proved t to be the fadt, and she was on the 20th ?? delivered e f a daughter, the present 1laintiff, *ho l rowv brought her eject- nient, onthe grouund that the hirth of a child was held to set asidlo a will ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... circumstances which took place relative to her child, that the death of the child was altogether accidental, and that when it happened she was intoxicated; that she communicated to him, that upon that occasion the child was upon her back, covered with her petticoat ...

BARBAROUS MURDER

... 'ki~ife to' kill her. Thle devil, hovever, ?? teap~ed him to 'acdt otherwvise, and while he held the chid in his arms, hle thus reasoned with himself- If I kill Saralh xnsman, she will have much sin to tr'swer for'; buit if. merely kill itie child* the ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCTOBER 27

... vicinity, went to the apartment where the poor child: d was' confined, and found -him almost naked, perE v Id fectly squalid with filth', and emaciated f.om ape I e- parent famine. He interrogated the child, Woc from his size, appeared not more than four ...

SHOCKING MURDER & CANNABALISM

... was seized and interrogated; when, as a kind of defence, she avowed, that goaded by misery and bun- I M gar, she had killed the child with a bill -hooky and had a ut ?? one leg, which abe had dressed v.ith some cab- bage,'and eaten a part of it. On searching ...

OLD BAILEY.—DEC. 4

... Mr Bedford, landlord of the Eagle and Child, proved, that the prisoner came into his. house on the llth of bvember, called for a pint of porters and obrerved, with the utmost composure, that he had just killed his wife; adding, _with equal copmposure ...

LANCASTER ASSIZES

... at Eccles. Death. Henry Ridings, for killing Mary Ridings, at Dean. Acquitted. Robert Johnson, for robbing James Read on the high- way, at Heaton-Norris. Acquitted. - Mary Bell, for the murder of a new-born male child, at Barrowford. Acquitted Mary Lilly ...

SURRY LENT ASSIZES

... prisoner, it vill. be recollected, went' out witb thc child, but being.absent rather long, and the motlier Mhing alareed, went.ofit to. sec after themj and on g& ing into-a Court near the tonse; she met the child, who 're'eled' fawards her,' and on her takina- ...