Second report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, &c. &c., one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Second report of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, to the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, &c. &c., one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    This work was ready for issuing on the 12th of February last, at which time I did not entertain an idea of the then alleged Bridgnorth matricide being subjected to a third trial. On the eve of publication, however, I learnt that she was to be again arraigned at the Shrewsbury Spring Assizes. I consequently thought it but fairness to a party accused upon exclusively circumstantial evidence, to withhold a communication which had no necessary bearing upon her case, and which yet might be capable of seriously prejudicing it. The prisoner having passed her third ordeal before Mr. Justice Patteson, and having been by a respectable jury pronounced “ not guilty,” I have no hesitation in submitting to the profession the facts contained in the following pages. In how far they may confirm or contradict the opinion of the jury, is now no business of mine. S. W. Birmingham, March 22nd, 1850.