SU ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



sire the witnesses were ordered 

 out of court. The following were 

 the wi nesses examined : — 



Louisa Wood, a child of 14 years 

 of age, lived witli the prosecutor, 

 a butcher, residing in Quebec 

 Street, Portman Sciuare, as ser%'ant 

 girl. On Friday^ the 6lh of June 

 last, she had the care of a little 

 boy of six months old, and at 

 about half-past five in the even- 

 ing of that day went out to take a 

 walk with it. While opposite Lady 

 Montague's house in Portman 

 Square, in company with two 

 other girls, who also had children 

 under their care, the prisoner came 

 up, and said to witness, " What 

 a pretty child you have there." 

 The prisoner gave the two giils in 

 Company with witness a penny 

 each, telling them at the same 

 time to go and take a walk. They 

 did go, aiid as soon as they weie 

 gone the prisoner said to witness, 

 " I want to speak to you," and 

 added, " will you go an errand for 

 me?" Witness a-ked how far she 

 wanted her to go, and slie replied, 

 " I want you to go to No. 21, 

 Lower Berkeley Street, and 1 will 

 hohi the child for yon in the mean 

 time." Witness said " No, no, I 

 will take the chili! with me ; " but, 

 however, was after vxards induced 

 to give tlie child to the prisoner. 

 As diiected, witness then went to 

 Lower Berkeley Street, but find- 

 ing only 19 houses in the street, 

 she inniiediately returned. Pre- 

 vious to going to Berkeley Street, 

 the prisoner gave Iter sixpence, 

 and h^ given her -sixpence before 

 that. She told witness to go to 

 a young woman in Berkeley Street, 

 to tell her to come directly. On 

 returning to Portnaan Square, she 



found the. prisoner and the child 

 were gone. 



John Armrod, a waterman at 

 the stand of hackney coaches in 

 Paddington Street, deposed, that 

 a little before seven o'clock the 

 prisoner came to the stand with a 

 child in her arms, and took a cha- 

 riot, driven by a person of the 

 name of Woolhead. 



Thomas Woolhead was the 

 owner and driver of a ohai iot ; 

 and on the 6th of June last was on 

 the Paddington-street stand. About 

 seven o'clock the prisoner came 

 with a child in her arnis, and got 

 into his coach. After having told 

 him to drive to Piccadilly, she 

 ordered him to go to Charing- 

 Cioss, and to drive fast. Witness 

 heaid the child <ry while on the 

 way to Charing-cross, end upon 

 looking back into the coach saw 

 distinctly the prisoner changing 

 the child's clothes j she ))nt a 

 cletin tVock and cap njion it. When 

 he got to Charing-cross, and htiv- 

 ing o}:ened the coach door, the 

 prisoner said, " Coachman, I 

 won't stop here; go on over West- 

 minster-bridiie." Witness follow- 

 ed her directions, and when he 

 arrived at Vtiuxliall, where the 

 roads part, said, "Madam, which 

 way am I to go : " she told him 

 to di ive to the Fjlephant and Cas- 

 tle, and at the same time told liim 

 to drive gently, as she said the 

 shaking of the coach frii;htened 

 the child. Witness went past the 

 I'^lephant and C.istle, expecting 

 further orders. Presently the pri- 

 soner looked out of the window, 

 and asked, " Where is this Ele- 

 phant and Castle, coachman?" 

 Witness said, that he bad come 

 past it J and, upon the prisoner 



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