immediately after the deed was perpetrated, he
went to a young woman in the neighbourhood, who was pregnant by him,
and offered to give her some money with a view to induce her to
father the child upon some other person; that he gave her the shoes,
and also some money; but it being rumoured that Hannah Oliver had
been murdered, and that a pair of shoes had been taken from her, the
young woman returned the shoes to the prisoner, who said she had no
occasion to be afraid, for that he had had them of a person in
exchange for a pair of stockings. The shoes, however, were returned
to him; and the evidence adduced in respect to them, as well as in
respect to a great variety of circumstances connected with the
horrid transaction, was given in such a very minute detail of
corroborative and satisfactory proofs, as to leave no doubt in the
minds of everyone that the prisoner was the person who had committed
the murder, independent of his own confession, which was taken
before the magistrates, previous to his committal.

"The trial on the part of the prosecution being closed, and the
prisoner not having any witness to call, the learned judge carefully
summed up the evidence to the jury, who after a few minutes returned
a verdict of guilty.

"His Lordship then passed the awful sentence of the law upon the
prisoner, which was done by the learned judge in the most solemn and
impressive manner, entreating him to make the best use of his time,
and to prepare himself during the short period he had to live, for
the great change he was about to undergo.

"Since his condemnation he conducted himself with greater sobriety
than he had manifested before his trial; but his temper was
obstinate, and his mind lamentably ignorant: and being totally
unacquainted with religious considerations, he exhibited very
imperfect signs of real penitence, and but little anxiety respecting
his future state. He acknowledged the crime for which he was about
to suffer the sentence of the law, but was reluctantly induced to
pronounce his forgiveness of the young woman who was the principal
evidence against him.

"At 12 o'clock yesterday he was brought upon the drop in front of
the County gaol, and after a short time occupied in prayer with the
chaplain (who had previously attended him with the most unremitting
an