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dren (who are of course fre- 

 quently neglecteil by their natural 

 gufirdians), she had murdered at 

 differ nt times several infants, in 

 the siinie manner as she had lately 

 done her husband and the two 

 other victims of her unprovoked 

 malice. 



Old Bailey, Monday, April 8. 

 — George Barnett was put t ) the 

 bar, standing charged with shout- 

 ing a certain pistol loaded with 

 P'uvder and shot at Frances Maria 

 Kelly on the 17th of February 

 last, with intent her to kill and 

 murder. The second count charg- 

 ed him with sliooting at her with 

 intent to do her some boddy 

 haim. There were two other 

 counts, varying tlie charge ; and 

 a Hfth count, charging him in 

 like manner with shooting at Ed- 

 ward Knight. 



Mr. Nathan Harris deposed, 

 that he is a Jeweller. On the 

 evening of the 17th of February, 

 hf was in the pit of Drury-lane 

 Theatre, about the eigiith row. 

 He saw the prisoner about two 

 rows before him, who stood up 

 during the perforn)ance of tlie 

 farce. Miss Kelly and Mr. Knight 

 ware on the stage at the mimient, 

 e.nl)racing each other, in the cha- 

 racters of Nan and Joey, in the 

 firce of Tne Merry Mourners. 

 After tliey had pirted, Miss Kelly 

 w is retie iting b-ickwai(is towards 

 the st ig.-'-dn:)r, when witness 

 o'j-erved the prisoner standing 

 above all the p ople around him, 

 with his rig!)t hand pointing 

 slmting toward- the spot where 

 Miss Kelly was standing. Wit- 

 ness saw a Hash come from his 

 hand, and heard the report of a 

 pi»tol : witness reached across to 



him instantly, and seized him, 

 when he said, " I am not the 

 man who fired it ; don't take 

 me." Witness said, he was sure 

 he was the man. At this time 

 the |)ri.soner had dropped the pistol. 

 Witness had seen the wadding 

 drop at tlie moment of the flash. 

 The prisoner was then secured, 

 taken out of the theatre, and 

 searched. In his pocket was 

 found a small block-tin case full 

 of gunpowder. Witness did not 

 stop longer, the crowd was so 

 great. ' 



Cross-examined. — The distance 

 from the prisoner to Miss Kelly 

 was very great. The prisoner 

 se<^med much agitated. He went 

 quietly from the pit, and said 

 notiiing. 



Mr. Birnie deposed that he 

 took the depositions against the 

 prisoner. He put a question to 

 the prisoner : the answer was 

 not taken in writing. Witness 

 cautioned the prisoner against 

 saying any thing to criminate 

 himself. Witness asked him how 

 he came to fire a pistol in a pub- 

 lic theatre. He said it was to 

 make an alarm. Witness then 

 asked him how he came to point 

 it so. His answer was, " She 

 can explain." He did not men- 

 tion Miss Kelly's name, but her 

 name had been mentioned, and 

 that of no other female. 



Cross-examined. — Could not 

 form any judgment of the pri- 

 soners sanity. There was a sort 

 of gloominess in his eyes. 



IMr. Rorer went to the theatre 

 to ascertain the direction of the 

 shot, and found marks of shot 

 (vei"y small) on the lamjjs on the 

 stage door, near which Miss Kelly 

 had been standing. He found 



some 



