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T POET CAAT RION TIC'LAE. 
# found from therice like a perfon 
groaning with great pain. This 
frightened her very much: fhe 
ran out, alarmed the neighbours, 
and brought in two women with 
her, 2 Mrs. Macdonald and a Mrs. 
Eyles. ‘They proceeded up ftairs, 
and defired to be admitted. The 
eget was ftill heard, but faint- 
y; and the prifoner was heard’to 
fay, “ Jefus Chrift!” On their 
enquiry what was the matter, the 
prifoner called out, “ The woman 
was in a fit; but fhe is recovered, 
and I am rubbing her by the fire.” 
They defired the door might be 
unlocked ; on which the prifoner 
opened it, and faid, Mrs. Munday 
might come in, but nobody elfe;. 
at the fame time fhe defired that a 
do&or might be fent for; on which 
Mrs. Munday went out for one. 
The door remaining a-jar, Mrs. 
Macdonald pufhed it open, and 
went in; when the firft thing that 
ftruck her was the appearance of 
the deceafed, fitting on the ground, 
“bleeding like an ox,” and hold- 
ing up her handkerchief to the 
wound on her throat. She ex- 
claimed, “ What have you been 
about, Mrs. Benfon? has the Lord 
left you? On which the prifoner 
held up her finger, and faid, “ Look 
at my finger!” and was proceed- 
ing to tell fomething about the 
tranfaction, when the witnefs, ter- 
rified at thofe fhocking appearances, 
ran down ftairs into the paffage. 
She had not been long there when 
fhe faw the deceafed come down 
ftairs, all over blood, and go into 
th kitchen; the prifoner wentafter 
her, and feemed to be affifting her 
to walk. About this périod Mrs. 
Munday, two women, two parifh 
beadles, and foon after a furgeon, 
camein. The deceafed was in the 
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kitchen at this time, and the prifo- 
ner had withdrawn to her room. 
They defcribed her as fitting on a 
chair when they faw her, fupport- 
ing her head with one hand, and 
unable to fpeak. She was terribly 
cut and mangied, and very bloody. 
One of the beadles was particularly 
attentive to her. She by figns re- 
quefted him to put his hands into 
her pocket. He took a watch out 
of it, which fhe in the fame man- 
ner defired he would take care of. 
She was afked whether it was the 
woman ahove ftairs (meaning the 
prifoner) that had ufed her fo? 
Her motions were fuch as appeared 
to yndicate an affirmative anfwer. 
To the queftion, if the had cut off. 
the prifoner’s finger, the anfwer 
was in the negative. The furgeon - 
defcribed her to have received fe- 
veral wounds, any fingle one of 
which was fufficient to kill her. 
She was fhortly after taken to the 
London hofpital. The attention 
of the parties was then directed to- 
wards the prifoner. She was up 
ftairs. Dunbar, among others, 
went up. Hie afked her how fhe 
came to ufe the poor woman fo? 
To which fhe replied, “ I believe 
the Deviland my paffion bewitched 
me.” | He perceived a cafe-knife 
lying on the table, which -was 
bloody ; he afked her if it was with 
that fhe had wounded the deceafed ? 
She anfwered in the aflirmative, 
With refpeé to the cutting off her 
finger, which then lay upon the tas 
ble, the faid it was cut off by Mrs. 
Cox, the deceafed. He then, by 
her direttions, took charge of fome 
money and notes, which fhe had a- 
bout her, and in the apartment. She 
was foon after alfo taken to the 
London hofpital. At this place fhe 
was fearched, when a clafped knife, 
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