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OLD BAILEY , WEDNESDAY , JUNE 22 . This day the sessions commenced . Soon after the Court was formed , Tilley , Crosswell , Hardwick , Hayden , Handland , Jacobs , Solomons , Philips and Henley , who were found guilty last July session of assisting Idswell to make his escape from the New Prison , were put to the bar , to hear the opinion of the twelve Judges delivered on the legality of the indictment , which declared it well founded , and the verdict good . The offence is transportable , but on account of their long
confinement , the Judges had recommended them to his majesty ' s mercy , and a pardon would be granted them . J . H . Gade , for a forgery , and Michael Robinson , for sending a threatening letter to Mr . Oldham of Holborn , were also informed that the Judges found their indictments valid . Sentence of death will be passed upon them . Robinson is a genteel well educated man . Gade is a German , upwards of 70 years of age . James Vandercom and James Abbott were likewise put to the bar , and informed that the Judges were of opinion that the last indictment found against
them for a burglary in the Miss Nevilles' house was a good one , thereby setting aside the plea of acquittal on the first indictment . Same day ten prisoners were tried , two of whom were capitally convicted , viz . Wm . Collins , for stealing , in the dwelling house of Jane Rowe , a silver cruet stand , & c . ; and Wm . Jenks for a burglary in the house of Joseph Davis , with an intent to commit felony therein . Three were convicted of transportable felonies , and five were acquitted .
¦ Second day . —Thursday , 23 prisoners were tried , three of whom were capitally convicted , viz . John Sharp , for returning from transportation ; and Vandercom and Abbot for a burglary in the dwelling-house of the Miss Nevilles—Thirteen ivere convicted of lesser felonies , and seven acquitted . Third day . —Friday , Mary Nott was tried and found guilty of " the wilful murder of the Count de Monero de Laval . A strong connected chain of circumstances were given in proof , but the actual commission of the horrid deed could not be
proved . Even the surgeon who examined the body deposed , that the wound upon the throat could not be mortal , and that he probed the wound on the side , mentioned by the undertaker , but which was no more than a tear of the skin , proceeding from the high state of putrefaction the body was then in ; this being on the 3 d inst . and the fifth day after the murder was supposed to have been committed . The circumstances that bore most against the prisoner were the certainty of the death not proceeding from suicide , as the knife that , was found in the room was not stained—that the deceased was seen to enter the house about oae
at noon , and the prisoner to shut the window- shutters of his room soon afterwards—that about two o ' clock a violent scream ivas heard—that a bason with bloody water was found in the room , as if hands had been washed in it—that his portmanteau was cut open , and that the prisoner had given contradictory answers to the enquiries made after him , during the five days he was missing . These circumstances were sworn by several witnesses , and no defence being olTered but character , the Jury pronounced her guilty—the Judge immediately passed sentence of death , and her body to be given to the surgeons .
Fourth day . Richard Ludman , Eleanor Hughes , Ann Rhodes , and Mary Baker , were indicted for the wilful murder of George Hebner , on the 22 d day of May , by strangling him by the neck : It appeared that the prisoner , Hughes , kept a house in Dean-street , East Smithfield : on Tuesday the 17 th of May , the deceased ( who was a taylor ) came to her house , and resided there mostly , for the remaining part of that week ; during which timebeing without moneyhe pawned a great part of his cloaths . On
, , the morning of Sunday the 22 d , Hughes came down stairs , and acquainted the prisoner , Baker , that the deceased had hung himself , and said , " I can go up no more ; " on which Baker said , " O Lord ! I'll call Dick , " meaning the prisoner Ludman . Soon after it became generally known in the neighbourhood thai a man had been hanged in Mrs . Hughes ' s house . A Mrs . Darby , who lived in the next house to Mrs , Hughes ' s was a very materia ! evidence . The houses were
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OLD BAILEY , WEDNESDAY , JUNE 22 . This day the sessions commenced . Soon after the Court was formed , Tilley , Crosswell , Hardwick , Hayden , Handland , Jacobs , Solomons , Philips and Henley , who were found guilty last July session of assisting Idswell to make his escape from the New Prison , were put to the bar , to hear the opinion of the twelve Judges delivered on the legality of the indictment , which declared it well founded , and the verdict good . The offence is transportable , but on account of their long
confinement , the Judges had recommended them to his majesty ' s mercy , and a pardon would be granted them . J . H . Gade , for a forgery , and Michael Robinson , for sending a threatening letter to Mr . Oldham of Holborn , were also informed that the Judges found their indictments valid . Sentence of death will be passed upon them . Robinson is a genteel well educated man . Gade is a German , upwards of 70 years of age . James Vandercom and James Abbott were likewise put to the bar , and informed that the Judges were of opinion that the last indictment found against
them for a burglary in the Miss Nevilles' house was a good one , thereby setting aside the plea of acquittal on the first indictment . Same day ten prisoners were tried , two of whom were capitally convicted , viz . Wm . Collins , for stealing , in the dwelling house of Jane Rowe , a silver cruet stand , & c . ; and Wm . Jenks for a burglary in the house of Joseph Davis , with an intent to commit felony therein . Three were convicted of transportable felonies , and five were acquitted .
¦ Second day . —Thursday , 23 prisoners were tried , three of whom were capitally convicted , viz . John Sharp , for returning from transportation ; and Vandercom and Abbot for a burglary in the dwelling-house of the Miss Nevilles—Thirteen ivere convicted of lesser felonies , and seven acquitted . Third day . —Friday , Mary Nott was tried and found guilty of " the wilful murder of the Count de Monero de Laval . A strong connected chain of circumstances were given in proof , but the actual commission of the horrid deed could not be
proved . Even the surgeon who examined the body deposed , that the wound upon the throat could not be mortal , and that he probed the wound on the side , mentioned by the undertaker , but which was no more than a tear of the skin , proceeding from the high state of putrefaction the body was then in ; this being on the 3 d inst . and the fifth day after the murder was supposed to have been committed . The circumstances that bore most against the prisoner were the certainty of the death not proceeding from suicide , as the knife that , was found in the room was not stained—that the deceased was seen to enter the house about oae
at noon , and the prisoner to shut the window- shutters of his room soon afterwards—that about two o ' clock a violent scream ivas heard—that a bason with bloody water was found in the room , as if hands had been washed in it—that his portmanteau was cut open , and that the prisoner had given contradictory answers to the enquiries made after him , during the five days he was missing . These circumstances were sworn by several witnesses , and no defence being olTered but character , the Jury pronounced her guilty—the Judge immediately passed sentence of death , and her body to be given to the surgeons .
Fourth day . Richard Ludman , Eleanor Hughes , Ann Rhodes , and Mary Baker , were indicted for the wilful murder of George Hebner , on the 22 d day of May , by strangling him by the neck : It appeared that the prisoner , Hughes , kept a house in Dean-street , East Smithfield : on Tuesday the 17 th of May , the deceased ( who was a taylor ) came to her house , and resided there mostly , for the remaining part of that week ; during which timebeing without moneyhe pawned a great part of his cloaths . On
, , the morning of Sunday the 22 d , Hughes came down stairs , and acquainted the prisoner , Baker , that the deceased had hung himself , and said , " I can go up no more ; " on which Baker said , " O Lord ! I'll call Dick , " meaning the prisoner Ludman . Soon after it became generally known in the neighbourhood thai a man had been hanged in Mrs . Hughes ' s house . A Mrs . Darby , who lived in the next house to Mrs , Hughes ' s was a very materia ! evidence . The houses were