MURDER, AND SENTENCE OF DEATH
... At the Chelmsford Assizes, on Saturday, Jas. Bacon was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, at Dagen- ham, on the 28th March last. The prisoner, a labourer, 24 years of age, had been married only three years to a woman rather younger, by whom he had two children, and to whom he appeared to have been tenderly at- tached. He was, the witnesses said, doatingly fond of his children - and ...