Report of the case of Geo. C. Hersey, indicted for the murder of Betsy Frances Tirrell, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the motion in arrest of judgment, the prisoner's petition for a commutation of sentence, the death warrant, officer's return upon it, and the confession / by James M.W. Yerrinton.
- Hersey, Geo. C. (George Canning), -1862.
- Date:
- 1862
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Credit: Report of the case of Geo. C. Hersey, indicted for the murder of Betsy Frances Tirrell, before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts : including the hearing on the motion in arrest of judgment, the prisoner's petition for a commutation of sentence, the death warrant, officer's return upon it, and the confession / by James M.W. Yerrinton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![think. I was married fifteen years ago last March. Betsy Frances has always resided in the family. [Pl^ex^^ and room pointed out that Betsy Frances occupied.] ^eor^e C. Hersey was also living in the family at the time ot her death; he had been there four months. He came there the Saturday before Mary's death. She died on Monday, the 2d of January. I had known him for some three years before. 1 supposed he was engaged to Mary. He had visited there for a year prior to Mary's death. He commenced in the summer in warm weather. It was understood that there was an engagement between them, by everybody. He came to the house as a friend during her sickness. He appeared to take her death very hard. He said he was not well, and we took him for company, as a friend. The day of Betsy Frances' death, I went to my brother's, at South Weymouth, to spend the day, and left her alone, and she went to her sister's to get her little girl, two years old, to stay with her during the day. My daughter was at school. Towards night, Mr. Hersey, Frances, and Louisa, came to my brother's for me, and they all came in. Mr. Hersey went with Louisa to the barber's to get her hair cut, — a short dis- tance, not a quarter of a mile, — and when they came back, he did not come in himself, but sent Louisa to tell us to get ready to go home, and we did so. We all went home in the carriage. I think my sister, Mrs. Jacobs, inquired of Frances how her health was, and she said she had been sick, but was better. She had a new breastpin, made of Mary's hair, and they spoke of that, and she took it out and showed it to them. I do not recollect that she said anything about that, but some- thing was said about it while we were fixing to go, — I don't recollect what. My mother and sister were there, and they were coming to our house4 on a visit after they went from there; we were talking about that, and the next Sabbath evening they were coming to our house. I don't know whether Betsy Frances participated in that conversation about their visit or not. I don't recollect that Betsy Frances said any* thing about the breastpin, or much conversation in which she joined. We Saw a great many people in the street on the way home, and I said I wondered what there were so many people out for, and she said she guessed there was going to be some kind of a lecture that night. I don't recollect anything more in particular that she said. I don't recollect Mr. Hersey's speaking at all. We didn't converse any of us much, going home. We arrived at our house somewhere about °eio-lrt o'clock. When we go* home, Mr. Tirrell stayed out in the yard, and we got out, and he and Mr. Hersey unharnessed the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21128315_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
