indifference; but on being made acquainted that the time for her execution was fixed, she was greatly cast down. The chaplain of the gaol succeeded in so far moving her mind, that she made the following confession :

"Two days before the murder was committed, Miss Jefferies called me up to her bed-room and attempted to strike me. She also locked me in the kitchen during the whole of the night. At five o'clock in the morning she unbolted the door and told me to make a fire in her room. I thought then to have struck her, but did not do so. On the following night I slept in her room, but did not contemplate murdering her till between five and six o'clock in the morning, when I got up, went down stairs, and returned with a stone, with which, whilst Miss Jefferies was asleep, I struck her on the head three times. Between the second and third blow she made some sort of a noise, and the last words I heard her say were, 'Christ, God!' I then dressed myself, robbed the house, flung the dog down the privy, locked up the house, and went home. I committed the murder and robbed the house with my own hands, and no one else had anything whatever to do with it; neither did I mention having done so to any person. I regret exceedingly having committed so horrid a crime, and I pray to the Almighty God for forgiveness. I never should have committed so dreadful a crime had Miss Jefferies' conduct been less provoking. After Miss Jefferies had died I remained in the room for more than an hour. I then went home, and did not return till about nine o'clock in the evening, when I went for two boxes, but

did not go into mistress's room. On leaving the house I saw a strange man standing opposite, who carried my boxes as far as the Infirmary, for which I gave him 9d. I then took a fly and went home.

When the morning of her execution arrived, a very harrowing scene took place. The prisoner took only for breakfast some tea, and refused to take anything to eat. The chaplain arrived at seven o'clock, and she seemed more attentive than before to her religious duties. Half an hour previous to the execution, the governor of the gaol, Mr. Gardiner, announced to her the painful duty which he had to perform, and said he hoped she would accompany him to the place of execution quietly. She stamped with her foot several times, and said she would not go She seemed almost frantic, and at the time appointed Mr. Gardiner was compelled to procure the assistance of six or seven men, who led her into the press-yard. She resisted all the time. In the press-room, at the suggestion of Dr. Sweet, the chaplain, she asked the governor to give her love to her father. After having been pinioned she walked without assistance as far as the drop, but afterwards she was obliged to be led up the ladder by two of the turnkeys. She struggled violently and shrieked in a dreadful manner. When Calcraft, the executioner, put the rope round her neck she exclaimed, “The Lord have mercy upon me! I hope my mother and none of my family are present."

Her screams did not cease until the fatal bolt was drawn.

Strange to say, very great exertions were made to save the life of this murderess; amongst others,

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mott, whom he asked if he were busy. The boy said " No;" and the prisoner said to him, "If you will take this letter where it is directed, I will give you three halfpence." "Your best plan," he added, is to watch me into the house, and in about five minutes after you see me go into the house, do you come to the door, and ask for a person named Mr. Wilson. I will come to you. You can give me the letter, and say it came from my master, and I will pay you for your trouble." Accordingly, the boy watched him into the house, and in about five minutes after he had gone in, M'Dermott came to the door and knocked, and the poor servant girl answered to the call. When she came, the boy asked if Mr. Wilson lived there, and the servant said, "Yes, he does; here he is." The prisoner was then standing behind her in the passage, and he received the letter which he represented had come from his master. At this time he had no money; he borrowed some halfpence from Mrs. Henrichson to pay the boy. At about 11 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Henrichson went out, as was her wont, to purchase necessary articles. She bought some potatoes, which were taken by a boy to the house, and received by the prisoner. As the boy was going down the steps he met Mrs. Henrichson coming up. Whilst she was out in the morning she had occasion to go to the shop of Mr. Roebuck, St. James's Street, to purchase two jugs, and young Roebuck was ordered to take the jugs home. Having some other duties to perform, it was twenty minutes before he took them to Mrs. Henrichson's honse, and he knocked at the door a long time

without being able to effect an entrance; and at last he peeped through the keyhole, and saw the feet and legs of a woman lying in the passage. That was Mrs. Henrichson. On looking through the front parlour window he saw the servant and the poor child about five years old lying close together, with its arms on her. In a state of great alarm he ran home and made known what had happened. Whilst he had gone, a young lady, a pupil of Mrs. Henrichson, who had come in order to take a music lesson, was much distressed at not being able to get in, and complained to Mr. Hughes, a neighbour, who was standing by, and he came to the place, got upon the railings, and peeped through the front parlour window, when he saw a woman bleeding on the floor. He broke a pane of glass, unfastened the window, and got in, several others going in along with him. On entering the house the servant lifted herself up on her elbow, stared wildly about, fell again and groaned, but said nothing at this time. Mrs. Henrichson was not dead, but was groaning dreadfully. Near the fireplace they found the eldest boy, five years of age. They found the poker, the shovel, and the tongs were bent, and that all of them were clotted with blood, and that portions of hair were attached to each of them. Α medical gentleman was passing at the time; a second was subsequently called in, and, after they had examined the bodies, and made themselves acquainted with their state and condition, they were re moved to the Southern Hospital. Fortunately for the ends of justice, the poor servant girl survived to the Thursday morning, the 5th of

April. She was sensible to the last, and she has furnished enough to convict the prisoner beyond all question. Her deposition will tell you that, after Mrs. Henrichson went out, she was in the front parlour with the two children and was blackleading the grate. When Mrs. Henrichson went out the prisoner came into the parlour with the newspaper in his hand, and drove the two children out of the parlour, as if in a jocular way, by striking them with the paper. He then took the tongs, and began to inquire from her what was the price of a set of fire-irons, and apparently he examined the tongs as if for that purpose. Before she made any reply, he struck her a violent blow on the skull, and she remembered nothing after. The eldest boy, when found, had no less than thirty distinct wounds on his head, his skull was beaten all to pieces, and his little finger was struck off by some jagged instrument, and was found attached to his pinafore. On a further search the second child, by following the traces of blood, was found in the scullery; and there is no doubt but he, a little innocent, about three years of age, had seen this dreadful scene going forward; he sought to hide himself, he had been followed, and the throat was cut from ear to ear, scarcely retaining the head to the trunk. A large carving-knife was found beside the child-no doubt the instrument with which this deed had been accomplished. After this search had been made downstairs, the police and other parties went upstairs, and there they found the drawers and boxes of Mrs. Henrichson had been disturbed, and one box, which contained her trinkets and jewellery, thoroughly

ransacked. On going into the room the prisoner occupied, they found marks in different parts of it. There was some bloody water in the basin, and bloody stains were observable on the towel. Mary Parr died on the 5th of April. Her statement, which was taken under the provisions of an Act of Parliament, will be laid before you. This statement alone would leave no doubt as to the guilt of the prisoner. About twelve o'clock the prisoner was seen by three carmen. He was walking hastily, as if from the direction of Leveson Street, along Great George Street, and up Washington Street. At the time he had on a dark blue plaid shooting-coat, the same that he has on now. He wore light cord trowsers, and these were turned up at the bottom of one of the legs. He had on a black hat with crape on it, and at this time he was going in the direction of Windsor. It was noticed by the men at the time that he was evidenly much flushed, and in a great state of perspiration. He had taken his hat off, wiping his face, and they made some observations on him, proving to you they particularly observed him. At half-past twelve o'clock he was seen by a man named Keane, in a pond in a field at Windsor, which is called "the Figure of Eight Pit." Keane was there, and looking into the pit, to see if he could find some gold fish, when a man came there and walked into the pit, and there washed his boots and trousers, and after he had so done he went to a ditch not far off and there wiped both his boots and trousers with something which seemed to Keane to be a handkerchief. It struck him as remarkable at the time, and as soon as he heard of the murder

and the events connected with it, those circumstances recurred to his mind, and the conduct appearing to him to be that of a man who had something to wash out, which might be indicative of his guilt, he went to the police and gave information of what he had seen. In consequence of this a police-officer accompanied Keane to the pit, and there they found a handkerchief, no doubt the handkerchief with which he had been wiping his boots and trousers the day before, and very near to it the very envelope of the letter which he had got the young woman to write for him on the morning of the murder, with the direction which he himself or dered; and there could be no doubt, because the young woman can swear to her own handwriting, that it is the identical envelope the prisoner received from the hands of the boy whom he had employed to deliver it to him and say it came from his master. We have now traced him somewhere up to twelve o'clock. At about half-past twelve o'clock he called at the pawn-shop of Mr. Tunstall, 207, London Road, and there he offered a gold watch for sale; I believe a very valuable one. He wanted 61. or 8. for it, and whilst he was in the shop, seeing the shopboy stare at him, he asked him what he was looking at; so that there could be no doubt but the shopboy had taken particular notice of him. At a quarter to one o'clock we find him at the shop of Mr. Finn, Great Homer Street, and there he purchased a pair of black trousers and a pair of braces, for which he gave 13s. He asked permission to take off the old trousers and put on the new ones. Mr. Finn gave permission, and he accordingly did so. When he got into the street he

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met with a pavior named Worthington, and he asked him to have a pair of trousers. Aye," said Worthington, "if they are worth wearing; let us look at them." "No," said the prisoner, "if they are not worth having without looking at them you'll not get them." "Very well," said the pavior, "I'll take them," and the prisoner gave him them. They were wet, notwithstanding which there were various spots of blood upon them. Between two and three o'clock we trace him to the shop of Mr. Oswin, who keeps a shoe-shop in Scotland Road. He there had on a pair of Wellington boots, clumsily made, it would seem, and he bought a new pair of short boots, and took his own off. It was noticed that they were very wet, corroborating the statement of Keane; and after he had taken them off he asked Oswin, the shoemaker, if he would purchase them. He said they did not suit him; but it so happened that a Mrs. Needham, who was in the habit of working for Mr. Oswin, was in the shop, and he sold them to her for 2s. Between three and four o'clock he went to his lodgings in Porter Street, where he lived with a person named Collopy, who had not seen him from Tuesday morning, who states that when he left her house that morning he had on a pair of light trousers, a pair of Wellington boots, a hat, and the coat he now wears. When he came back he had on black trousers, a new pair of boots, and he had also a gold watch and chain, and that gold watch will be proved, beyond all question, to have been the property of Mrs. Henrichson. When he came in he asked the landlady for the loan of a clean shirt, and she declined at first.