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 Much of what is contained in the following pages was written while 
 WttUAM Qbokwood still lay in Jail dfeder sentence of death; and wiU, 
 therefore, in some cases, appear conjectural. The writer has never had 
 reason to douht the prisoner's guilt, so for, at least, as regards his connection 
 w^h the murder of CATHilQn Walsh, and this belief is in no way shaken 
 hf the itatements which hare appeared in the public press, and copied 
 Mxto this Tojume, purporting to be the last decUrations of the unfortunate 
 jinan before he comaitted suicide. In the sketch ofjiis younger days, 
 /which appears in theilrlier pages, he is well spoken of. It was written 
 /from such information <ls we were enabled to obtain^ at tl^e time. 
 At a later period (a few days before the book appeared,) some further partie- 
 ulars of a very'different character were placed in our hands ; and as there li 
 no reason foir doubting their entire correctness, they are inserted a* * 
 the close of the book. This information has been conflfmed by a pam. 
 agraph which appeared in a CoUingwood paper; this also will b» 
 found at the close of the volume. No apology is needed for the publica- 
 tion of this work. Some narrative of the eztraordinray career of the person 
 whose life it seeks to portray, demands to be presented in a less ephemeral 
 form than that of the newspaper press. With the hope that it may be the 
 means of effecting some good, of holding back be it but one young man* 
 from a life of shame and wickedness — it Is now given to the public. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 FezlMpi too OMM In the annals of oilme has attracted lo mnch of pvblio 
 attention in Oanada— oeitalnly none liaa attiaoted more— than that of 
 William Oreenwood, who, on the night of Monday, the aand^ 
 Febraaijr, expiated hla mladeede by taking away hla own life in one of 
 the oella ci Toronto JaU, a few houn pioTloiui to the ttme appointed 
 for hia ezeoQtIOB. Ibe crimes of whldi he was conTloted were so 
 honiUe, thdx peipetmtlon was so cvnningly concealed and so leag 
 Bhiovded in mystery, the drcnmstances suroondlag ttielr disoovsry 
 were so slngnlar, and the gvllt of the prisoner so dUBoidt of prooi; that 
 they excited the lively interest of thonsands throughout the coontry 
 outside of the city In which they were omnmltted. Besides these 
 incentlTes to cudosl^ — the horrible and the mysterious— there were otlier 
 things oonnected^<ii^ the case calculated to aronse public Interest in a 
 large degree, things of so delicate a nature as almost to fbrbld comment in 
 the press, bnt wh^di, neTextbelesi, obtained clnmlatlon by piivate report. 
 Among these was the feet that all the crimes of which Greenwood was 
 acoQf ed were either committed or to a large extent meditated and carried 
 ont in the honfe of a well known and highly respectable gentleman by whom 
 he was employed—the Hon. J. H. Oameron— nhder the cloak of whose 
 Ineproachable character as It were, and ;ander the shelter of whoM roof 
 ofbnces of the most revolting nature were planned and committed. It 
 must hare been most palnAil to that gentleman to have dlicoyered 
 irregnlarlUes In his honsehold, amongst his domestic i ervants, which, If 
 they had been peroelTed at an earlier period, and checked, would in all 
 probability hare prevented the commission of crimes of th#lnost atroclons 
 oharaoter, 
 
 Thto brutal depravity of Oreenwood, as revealed by the long and careful 
 investigation instituted on the discovery of ^hls crime, coupled iwlth the 
 painful phase of domestic life it unveiled, and the fict that the house in 
 which sraie of his atrocities were perpetrated was that of a public man so 
 universally known in Canada as Mr. Cameron, gained for Greenirood 
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 roputotlon. The itory of Greenwood's guilt quickly spread oyer the ooontry. 
 The statements of the Toronto press and the evldenoe eUoited beftore the 
 ooronex's juij were read with the greatest eagerness, and copied by the 
 country newspapers to gratify the curiosity of their readers ; and eyeiythlag 
 owmeoted with the case was sefasd upon with ayidlty by the publio mind. 
 
 This aU showed that a wide-spread interest was taken in the case. Whether 
 
 this absorbing feeling of curiosity to learn aU the details of crimes of the 
 
 most abhorrent character worked good or evil, is a matter of opinion ; but 
 
 oerlain It is, that:the love of the horrible and mysterious is manifMed by 
 
 ) fte «he largest classes of aU communities* The usefol and benevolent acta 
 
 ♦ ol the great andjlthe :good are often overlooked in contemplating the 
 
 aunifold offmces of the vicious and depiared ; and the latter often gain a 
 
 notoriety and exert an Inflaenoe for evil that the ftomer cannot hope to 
 
 Mteln and neutrallae, by acts of great usefulness and benevolence. 
 
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 There «re few eyents in the eerly Ilfe/^Greenwood whloh wovld have 
 indloAted to thoee who knew hinii that he woold have met the nnh^ppj > 
 bat joitly deierred fiite which overtook him. - Unlike mnny oilier otlmianli 
 hi! mln WM not bronght about by habits ot idleneu. and dmnkenneH i« 
 hii younger yean. He ieems, from all aoooontiof him which oan bo 
 gathered, to hare been trained in hislN^hood with lolMable oare, to ham 
 been taught^ by eswmple at any rate, the valne ci indutiy, and to ha!i|^~ 
 attained ttie age of manhood without being mbjected in any marked ctegni ' 
 to any of fhoie oorrapting- inflnenoes which, too often, in tUa ooml^r 
 especially, destroy the moral character of onr yonthand fit them for aUle of 
 Infiimy and a death of Ignominy and shame. He workedlndastriously/aad 
 soberly at his humble calling ; and those with whom he was as^oolatid 
 describe him as quiet and inoffenslTei guilty <tf no unpardonablo b r ea eh s i 
 of the moral law, and apparently detoted to a life of fhrlfl and iMVPF 
 industry. He certainly was not addicted to liquor, nor pasiionatoly find of 
 Ihe play-house— those two great depmTing Influences liU^ aoooiding to 
 the dictum of some, are the chief causes of the niln of mosti^ttose n^bmb 
 last moments are very unpleasantly spoilt upon the gallows. It was not 
 till he emerged from the age of boyhood that those immoral qualHlBS inn 
 developed which finally led to his doom— qualities which, notwithstanding 
 those who tolk of liquor and the theatre as the beginning of all eiii, aio 
 produotiye of more misery and are the origin o^tt^ crime of the wocat 
 description, than any other cause to which is att^pable Uie eril aotlonlof 
 man. These quiOIties were negative as well as positive in thdr nature— a 
 want of regard lor the purity of woman, which led him to flew all as equally 
 ready to contiibuto .to man's licentiousness | and a lust that wm unbridled 
 and that increased 4n proportion to the opportunities heoMtfnod or oreatsd 
 of feeding it. What dishonour has not such a character as this bnmi^ 
 upon funllies T what unhapptness has It not spread even through entbo 
 oommunlties, and what crime has it not prompted In the breast of man and 
 even of woman 7 Oreanwood acted apparently upon the belM thit the 
 women with whom he came in contact in his towly drole poSMMod none of 
 tho delicaoy and virtue which in all age» have been asorlbed to them, as 
 well as to the educated and high-born; he Ipoked upon thsa simply ai 
 
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 gardener, he snoceeded In obtalnllkg atftoatlon wUh a gentleaaan nan^y* 
 BtanntoD, and xenjalned with liiin lor two or three yeara at hIa xealdenpe in 
 Waverly. He laba^qnently worked with « gentleuan nauMd Lang^, in 
 LWeirpool, and while hfre, it Memi, lie oonclided. to try hhi fottnae on^Siia 
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 . Tl^e fiiat place M which Greenwood obtained employment, after coming 
 to Canada, was at Mr. LeBlie's ^^nrserlea, on ihe Kingston Bond, about two 
 milea from the City Hall, Toronto. This wfs in the Fall of L865. He 
 
 Remained tb^ere abont^a^ yeara. Ail this time he bme^ooa chuaoter. He 
 did nothing, so fiur aa we have been able to le«n, of >whioh nay'yonng v^ 
 in Om same position might be aahamedpiiHe waa tftoadyj sober and indna 
 trions When he left Mr. Leslie^s aervioe, he became aoqialnled with 
 
 > another-yonag man named Fiankland, of tb» samebnslneas aa himself and 
 both "jobbed" together for aome two or thrie mimtha, U^ag oik the 
 Elngeton Boad, in the neighborhood oi tiiO Niuaertea. Aboot this Wne an 
 incident doonired which may hkn been the-alartiag point in the long 
 career q/ crime which snbseqnently aurked the Ufa of this nnfmrtnnate man. 
 We do not say that the laot ol hia aaaoointloik with Fn^jiklaad led him into 
 a course of infamy. Franfclaad aeemfl to have been a pspnKm ojt Qneamep* 
 tionable .character hlteself, and not one who would \ bo likely toMad a« 
 Mflco;»te into wrong d<^g. Bnt, however this mi^ be^ it la abo«||M|j|L 
 time we firet find him charged with an oSsMei trifljyug ttuM^h Ww^' 
 Some yexetftblcNB were stolen fronijttie gnrdMiof a peaaonnun^ Jobaea^ 
 n^w -oiiiwe pretnlees Greenwood and hia companion lived. They were 
 p««gpeotod; indeed Jobson aceaaedrMiem (tf having made 4^e depredation 
 apoA his oabbags garden; they resftntad thp (}ha»ge, and a row ensued. 
 The next lUght, tbe mahe and tall of one of J(^Moa's horses were shared 
 off. Tbe perpetratara of this piece of oroeUy were not disbovored, but it la ^t| 
 
 har'diy necessary to aay on whoin suspicion reated^ ,^^n "' 
 
 Hlcon after tfcds escapade Oremwood is found in the^emj^eyinontof Mr. 
 E. B. Bonthby, who kept a brewery in the w^<*known disreputable ragioo 
 of Brook's Boah. This place,, it is aa well the readers of this biogio^y 
 who reside out of Toronto should know, Imd 1h^ fbr many yearn the^reami 
 of the moBt hi^ened wretphss of both aszea. It waa the terror^ p^- 
 aoaa travelling along Om Kingafte read, by nlgb^M well aa of persona 
 kasldipg in the /(ooaUty. When the polioe oflioer wanted ^ notoriously bad 
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 WM llBftU^ InekiNft up In the yen 1862. Ojwenwpod neTer belonged to fhlf 
 guig ; neTex VuA |re ue Mwue, MMOoleted with It. Bat it was nnfd^innete 
 lor him that he should ha^e spent the first yeaxs of his life In a nelghbox^ 
 hood whlohwas le ealdnlated to destroT't^e e^rly vuxnl tialnlng he had 
 leoelTed. In the Inewery he remained only five or six month!; bi^ still . 
 he remained tn thls^dasslo region. The Kingston Boad and ItsVldnlty 
 seem to have had tPtSuam for him. We next find him llflng with a colored 
 mui numed Henry Oalbert, also a market gardener residing near Leslle^s 
 nnrsiules. This waf in the spring of '68. He temalned there nntll 
 February of the fcJUowlng^ year. Th||S Otilbert seems to harr been a 
 peonHar IndlTidoal, Blessed with children, he seemed to regard ^them 
 nther in the light of a onrse than otherwise. HI certainly did not likO' to 
 tndolge liieb a^etlto* For it came to be found oat that he was in ttie 
 habit of mauling ohe of his children at least so as to prevent it eating too 
 maoh. For this hi»was ignominleosly driveii oat of the market, and 
 areenwood found another employer. 
 
 Thrt period in a kan's life in which he determines on taking to himself 
 
 tt wlfrls generally sud to be the most Important of his existence. It wis 
 
 aboat ttis time ttmtthe subject of this sketoh bethought him of changing 
 
 ' ll Sll lol ii lor lUe lor that of a Benediotr His worldly goods were not large or 
 
 ^^"tlilible; but little inooBTenlenobs of this sort do not generally trouble^ 
 
 J/fmtm In Ghreettwfllod% position. He became, aeqoalnted with another 
 
 ^Sricet gardener naUed Sedgwick, who had a "strapping" young women 
 
 ^ fcr a daughter. He hired himself to this man, and engaged himself to the 
 
 daughtor. Nothing could be more natural than this. At the end of six 
 
 ^ months they were married, on the 22ad Norember, 1868^ his wife being 
 
 " only sixteen yews o^ age. For a year and a half afterwards they both 
 
 llred in Sedgwick's house, as good husbands and wires genemUy do. He 
 
 'siems then to haiL become tired of llTlng with his tether-ln-Iaw, and 
 
 sought employment Miewhere. Being a good gardener he was engaged by the 
 
 Hon. John HUyanK^ameron, and was allowed to Hto with his wife In a oot< 
 
 tage on Itr. 0»mero4's premises. For sixteen months nothing occurred to 
 
 dlstorb the harmony of their married life ; but at the end of that time they 
 
 - appear to h^TC, ihal is pofsiwly caUed, •< fallen out," and Mrs. Oreenwoctf 
 
 retired to Jm ft^hef^'hoQItf^^^ a year Greenwood did not go to see her. 
 
 Probably 4illMHi|» awiM ollds fastrigues with the serraats in the house, 
 
 which munhavu ocuimenfled soon after ha went to Mr. Cameron's. Though 
 
 he did not tIbU her she used to call on him oooaslonally, taking with her 
 
 ^"^ldi«n hMdM^tee^^^SOT^M^rU^ng, Is about two ytHMM. 
 
 We new cone to the moet erenifal portion of this wreiehed Bean's lil|| ^- 
 
 
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 HOW HIS CEraES-WEIlE DISCOVERED 
 
 oped wmiiui wto^SToSTe to h^d^ff^Jn? ?* '^l** £' * wrtl dewi, 
 
 herderthbytonlmeMwor by Lto ^ Wi!?fL\.KTM !5l ^""^ ^« *» 
 WM tbo numitor who ronld tawMniSSy^k^l^if* *?**"• '^'^ 
 
 WM Informed of tlie dJ^SffiiT^^tSI^ S?h**' '®"*^ ^ 
 «f rtwloiw uut bloody teMdrkn^ w?^«3Hl*^ *® **»• *»»• o* «» 
 
 ed with the death of a X^XnblJtt to ^? Sj ,f«n««w««eM oonneol. 
 mqolrfee havltig been oSonli^^^Sv mSSTJir^ ' "** »^ 
 «pended III wektog to imtevel the^iyl^yaSSi^MriJr^ 
 
 Themoit Important MrtloM^hrn-S^^^ *^ ^ *"**"*y Irwlavent. 
 
 name wai written; andalao a lemthrr^in -„^ ?• ^"*<?. ^weBwood'i 
 •«»•• of Oreenwood'at MfSuIeroS? tons'* w2A 2?.,^*°^*'? ^ "»• 
 bef^ the Coroner he Tolon^.'^^a^CtoltoXSCenT^^^ 
 
 aiJ2ii!li!r ™»"y ^'•wai iQcompaay with deoSid • |t\««^' 
 ^•^ !^* ^f*"^ Ho.^ Poiloe StaUon and BiOoktinSTTlU " 
 
 J.MV kOT WM a Wtok at»on ToewiiJ lalt In llrol^^ » 
 . TMi atatementL aa wUl be aft«rMnf . «.. ... «^.. 
 
 '*#) 
 
 tlaotly 
 
 1I?*!1!**"V** ^'^ ha afterwaida ieen, waa ooatradlolBd viw* ki^ 
 by the evlnenoe of Mr. FruioU DaiketT SJTwSLySoJlj 
 
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 people wibo Uv«d uttxt doot to Um ; m well m l» other iritnMMi. Qa Ihoi 
 / ITkh »eMfr of 9mmn&tf§ wtm tmaA In U» hmm on irWeH savenl Mood 
 
 '^ -^Nl^^^ibllowlBf dfty, Gflorgo Bta«ei, ooMhrnen it Mi. John O^yley'i, 
 
 abeeai^ befoie the Coroner,. Mid iwere that Oathaiine Welefa hod told 
 , OB the 2ad ▲piU, thot eho wm encUtae lif Mr. Oeawnm'f gndenei^ m 
 nuuciled auui. hot did not iIto hii nanne. Thle smm «m cot bronght m ok 
 the' tdWbi ol the AMfia Oomt, beoanse he could not be Isimd, tmhSM 
 fanpctttut teettsMmy vm therefore lost to the jurlM whioh tried Oreenireod 
 Uu waadktm 
 
 On the tUk;fMtes wao xeod fsoii Ifirtthew MoNoltr, who had oera hlf 
 noMo in the !n>ionto popen in oonmotion witli the oeoe. He wrote itom 
 IMralt to mf that ho had Berei been auwrled to Oathailne Wahih, and that 
 U tt were n oc e w a q r , ho would oomo to Tocoato to proro hla itatment tnit. 
 
 Bo tor, tfeo ovidMioe went to fnrten ttie golll oonneoted with the mmder 
 of Oattwrino Widsh and her child, and the leltiBgiie tothe honielniddoh 
 ihollTed,oniono peveonorpeifeons. Anewfflatare waenowatMed totho 
 oaae. On eaamlBtoK a wator oloiet on Mr. Oam«ron*i preadiea, Beiveanl- 
 ■ajon Haottago and Onuaiu and oonttoUo King niooeedod In drawteg 
 m ont of tt ttio hodif of a fWUgrown male ohUd. A pfeoe of ealloo waa 
 piaoed over Ito heatf, and a piece of twine, having a brlok attoohed to it, 
 w«o fooMl Moud ito neok. 1%e body waa well preferred. Two more 
 lun wti now beaasM nooeaiary, and they were carried on alternately. Th^ 
 ovldonee^ bearing agatoti gr eenw o o d on the flrat two oaiei will be fonnd 
 dotelled in Mbaeqnent pagea It ii inffloient to lay here that the Ooroner'a 
 lory fonnd aa their verdict, to aooordanoe with the medical tettlmony ot 
 Dn. AtUnk and 1!horbnm, that the child waa well matured, that It waa 
 bom idive, and that they beUeved It came to ito death by raOooatton, either 
 from b^big plnaged Into water^ or by hating a doth ptooed ofor tta hMd 
 and month. They alfo conneetod Greenwood lafllotently with the anon and 
 death of Oatharlne Waleh aa to aend the ceae to toe Amlaaf . 
 
 The inf neat on Agnea Marshall and her child waa tedlonf . The moat 
 Impottaat evldonoe to thti caio will alao bo fonnd farther on In the book. 
 It if Boffloiont here to refer to a few leading partlonlars. Agnee Marahall 
 had been a aarvant in Mr. Oameron'i employ. She gave birth to a oliild on 
 the 10th Febrnarf, iSdS, aa li proved In evidence, and on the 20th March 
 fellowtog,{ahe died In the 0eneral HospltaJ, whltoer ehe had been removed. 
 It wai alao napeoted— todeed greenwood itoted it to be a fMt— that ihe 
 became a mother on the 8 to of March of the previoni year, and ho 
 lr«f nently toreatened to mako the dronatuitaaoe known. It may bo thirt a 
 knowlMge of tola laot gave him a power over her, which he need to toe 
 giatilkMillon of hli own nnbtldled paailone and wicked Itut. Dr. Hodder 
 attended hor regolarly from the JM Mandi to her deato, and nevwr knew 
 thai the had been ina atate of pregnancy. Hoaltrtfcnied tola to hat refteal 
 to oltow him to make a mtnate exaarinatimi ei h«r pMrioa. Bho alwi^e 
 •aid her dlnaae waa meceiy Jinoh aa la paonllar to the a«i. At the pott 
 Mortoa exaadnatloa, ha ionnd ont tef tho flrit time that eho had been 
 dallvewd of a child, m>mo aevenBao ntha oM aa how p po ted , M fJjjt ftj^ 
 
 Jory found that Agnee Manhall dl«d from natnrel caoaea, after havtaf given 
 
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 Ora 
 
 flrii 
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 will 
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 fie 
 
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 hoaif 
 
 Inteli 
 
 have 
 
 Mem 
 
 trepk 
 
 < hadg 
 
 waali 
 
 aalmi 
 
 lowj* 
 
 over I 
 
 which 
 
 onter < 
 
 appe*] 
 
 neeaa 
 
 before 
 
 ■teadU 
 
 PromU 
 
 Vhttl 
 
 intkoa 
 
 heht ii 
 
 cleai-ih 
 
 haada 
 
 tffteit 
 
 Jif a 
 
 capiablfl 
 
 W^ 
 
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 t,t ^^.i 
 
^yS SAtlbU Cfo«?d toih^SS. J!S'*1«»t *o tw. v«dH . 
 
 child of Agnef Marthall t^nd iS? ?/ii? f ' **** J"*'' '» **»• ewe of the 
 ;*J««ld ^« *h« child of'^Ji*^£;,;2^^^^^^^ That ihS 
 
 ««» upon the ohwge of haTtar«S;dM^'*nJj! ,»>'*»« »'«*nwood to trW 
 the honje In which «he Mwd " J<2?^*SS;^,o^!l'? "** *«* ««» «« 
 wUl iMt give some few |wtlonl.M ^7^^ «S^ ^^?^f^ '*» oonglder ; bat 
 •PpelUMioe. |WHoWM8„of the prtoon*.'^ pAyngw and genen! 
 
 proportioned, nprlght freie\h\ « * ^ii! ^'^I *«" ''^°»»«8, with « wrtl 
 
 it there w«i . «„t of .In^uLl -m.^ i'' f^ ^l*. P^ 
 
 SSUtrbnt^lreTe-ri^r^^ 
 
 hiTe become' repnWveuXth^Infl. •""««*!,»>°*« ''hfch wonid problbl, 
 
 WM leige, with what phrenolMUta wonld Sf J . '.I** '?*' **'• ^••<» 
 •nlmal organi. Hla forahSSi ^UjI i? f*" • '•'«• ««velo*«nent of the 
 low- It ^Ta. tolfrabJrtr^ wd'b^^l *ir "^ ~"o« " vIllalnoiH^ 
 OTer the reflu^re orglit,^ 5^th Lk i'l, ^'W^'f P«*o««n«M^ 
 whlohhadaTerypeonllarexMeMloTfth^ ../• **^ "^^* Wq« «,</ 
 onter oornera, glTto.^ i,i2*!!^J?J.*?^ *'*"'*• '""• <*«''» '<«»»» •« the 
 
 ■•Jiand an Inwart oonrlZ^ct InlT i^^^*^ "^ ^'"^ ofaeeaeU 
 bafore the gai) ef another tolwW... J ' "*'^'"' ^'"''•^'w, dr pp«d 
 
 Prpalnent cheek bonea. stSaIrt nor mi!if!i2f"? *** *^ »' »»««»«(Hoe. 
 What l«f--eoaplSwrtU dM5H«5^U#T^ ^^ **^' •'»* «^« wmb^ 
 Irtthont •naplclTShTt Um^^^^tJ^ thonwiKfi^lwnW Jock iTn'^^ 
 
 »e been tekeo fcii 
 
 
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 MOBe addicted to wUt ate called " ««°»Jl ^»««« C^*'? JtS A^Jb'^JdV to 
 usoclate with tbe appeaiaace of » murderer He wM » »»« jw» oouW 
 3?Tibt«idll coioeil In hlmfieff any trace of the agU»tlon Which might 
 >SJebSSL5iSS^ tteormlwlo/of the deedaol which he wMcouvicted, 
 Jiy^a^nfevJr at exp^dlente 'or «verUBg iii^Wcm from hl^^^^^^^ 
 ^Uke the httltal wretch who will take up an «e and clei va anothw j 
 aimn In cold blood or the more reaoed rascal who will lastu the moas 
 
 -LtlS fci i! «nT V br the merest accident, to conceal his mturder of Oathartae 
 w"ah^an1 ?hXiJlmonTof thS^e whoWted him dm»ngh!« Incarceration 
 «nd te^^rthe oDOortunli of studying hla ohataoter, la uaanlmoM In 
 
 et U that WIS In him, aja ^^V'"™, . .{L He was not a mprderer beoanse 
 ,«ro« to aXtr tb.n dtl... of lHew •''™» ?< ''^Si'^i iS, ZJtSS 
 
 pwiet. 
 
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 FIRST MURDEE-TEIAli 
 
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 *■--- '7^ • ^ *^, ♦Kv. murder of Catlxerino Walsh 'coinmenced 
 The trial of Greenwood f<>r ^^ "^J^^J^!' i863 before Mr. Justice Adam 
 in the Court House on S^^^ls^ -^(JT';' Sd ou behairof the Crown 
 Wilspn. Mr. Stephen Richards, Q;C;;^ *PP^J* ^^^ created the ^eatest 
 and Mr. M. 0. Cameron for ^^^.f^'J^ten place bcfqw the cSroner'l 
 interest. The Plf ""'^iT J^SL f^firth« ffilg of^ mystery. The 
 jury but whetted ^c public W*^^, Xc t^^^^ with anxious Jpecta-. 
 
 UrtHou«, was,d.umg^^^^^^^ standing room .' The 
 
 tors, and many PIl S J^^^rZr day s a nd the^fth waa taken up wi^ 
 
 
 unn( 
 agai] 
 
 Gi 
 anxii 
 diflfei 
 evidc 
 This 
 favor 
 
 Th 
 
 .^but t] 
 
 upon 
 
 of C« 
 
 house 
 
 show( 
 
 new-l 
 
 togfetl 
 
 which 
 
 she he 
 
 wasal 
 
 that s< 
 
 , crimeg 
 
 before 
 
 * .had CO 
 
 to pres 
 
 Greene 
 
 Shor 
 
 Duokel 
 
 Walsh- 
 
 tion at 
 
 "thoa^< 
 
 succeed 
 
 and he 
 
 were h( 
 
 kitchen 
 
 , slaming 
 
 Arom on 
 
 front wi 
 
 door of 
 
 long«r I 
 
 -left the 
 
 look at 1 
 
 crowned 
 
 tiling wa 
 
 withCoi 
 
 vmarked ] 
 
 Havin 
 
 arine Wi 
 
 To sift Bie wheat from the 
 
 Irrelevant evidence "was necessarily taken. 
 
 Mxi 
 
 
 
 ^*.iiJ 
 
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 difference, he affected to note downTn^f ^ ?i! he assumed an air of in- 
 eWdence of the witnesses which remSt^i' T^P?^ P«^^*« ^^ the 
 This was done, however, ra^er to Slc^the^L^?^'^^'* ^^^^^«* ^»°^- 
 favor than for any good 'that his CoSdto'uS deii7e frtxit' ^"'"' ^" ^^« 
 
 ,butete'St's^^^^^^^^ Tir "^^^ «^« P-- 
 
 upon circomstantial evidence t/.m«'t! K?^^ had (necessarily to depend 
 of Catherine Walsh,;r4eLmCg^^^^^^^ The state o'i the g^Sy 
 
 house on Sayer street whSHhf had ti^ /?"^ ""^^^ ^^"^^ »^ the 
 showed that she had been 8tran,rlS ^'^^ '«"<ied for 'over six months 
 new born babe found ^r^ppXk:^^^^ ^^P^^.^ ?' ^^^ »'e A 
 together with the other evidences affo^P^ if \T^^J^ ^^ *^« l^^tchen, 
 which the deceased had on her at thf W I ^J^^^ding and clothes 
 she h«! lately been delivered of rchU^ind%h5^^^^^ sufficient proof that 
 was already in flames when Uie pSman ^^.S^^^ ?** ^^' ^^o"«« 
 that some one had committed not nr./^J? reached it showed conclusively 
 . ^imes. The prisoner hadTenanre^d on 1^^^^^ ^V^" "^^^ ^«rrib e 
 before Coroner Buchanan poSd t^^fj^'LSt •''^^' , ^^« «^i<J^«ce teken 
 
 Duckett, who it wm ^^ *^t morning of the I5th Anril M^ 
 
 . tion attracted by some person IKS »*nn'',i?'^l^«^°»«-^d her atten! ' 
 the adjoining ro6m, where CatLrine Walh^L^^^^ ^^ *^« toes " £, 
 
 succeeded in pursuadinir her hiV«v^L *t I •l*^' ^^th some difficulty she 
 
 and he got upland wen! to\he"Se^*inZ "^^ '??*«^P« «^ "^ 
 were heard, now lA the bedroom of n^fi. • the meantime the footsteDs 
 kitchen, the'n back a^'n qSly ?nt^ t^e^'iSL^f ^.'^ '^^"f ' ^^^^ ^^^e 
 slaming and making a noise 8H11^«5 ^™' *,**® ^°<*>^ of the bed-room 
 from one. room to ttie Xr" Mrs D^.TT"''? ^ ^'^ «ie footsteps pasg^? 
 front window of her own h^^''* ^rcselv^sL'f «^hed and wentTS! 
 door of Catharine Walsh's hoii«P ^^T I «^® heard a step on the front 
 
 onger, she saw a m^^^^^l'u^ ^oTsZtf^!^ '"^f '4^ ''^ ««<^»Ss 
 -left the house. By the liirht nfT™o i -^^ **^° sidewalk, after h&vinir 
 
 look at the niito H?had on JjLT'TE ',^® ^"^ ^'^^hled to get a S 
 crowned hat. i w« 'S^nX'^^rs' ^1^*^^^^^^ 
 «l^« was wrong Duckett went inTearch «?««?,- ^^^^^^^^^d that ^me- 
 wlth- Constable King. He h^ Lnil. * Po"ceman, and soon returned 
 .mwked his cLss. af weH as hfs wtf? ' ""*" ''^^"^ ^"^^^^ ^^ house^Ld 
 
 ariS W^I'^n1n^nf Ji^t""^^^^^^^ ^"« --* '^^ the house of Catl^ 
 
 "n« "Oh, 
 
 '*T*A that 
 
 
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 . .• 1 4u,.,n th<.r.- of what had happened, Sergeant-Major 
 and, having inicymed Uicm thcr. ot ^Uaw H . ^,^^^ ^^.^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 Hastings «<f ^,,7"^^ t£* f tL^ polk toed to an investigation of the pre- 
 fire was put out and «;en tne pouct ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ 
 
 xnises and -^^*J*,^°^S ^onte^^^^ P^^^ of a tallow candle, ^om which 
 a brass candlestick, wnicn ^"""*^"'=".f' .„ . .^ ii,. x,„^ This candlestick 
 
 the fire ^^ ^-^^.^^^J^^^^^^^^^ ^amSo^s'erv^aXto be nko 
 
 was proved by Margaret f '^^-^^'f ^^^^'^ _vich the prisoner had one timo 
 oiie which used to be m her room, ^^^ ^^^/^^^^^ King 
 
 asked, claiming it to be his o^n- i^foceeamg ^^^^ 
 
 found'a quantity of ^\«<^y,J^„^f "^f,^^^^^ up 
 
 ^^V^vS ^ity' ?h?nt tK sSnf ^^ber strS^which James 
 in a table cloth ; then a Y* *;* 'I " itivelv belontted to Greenwood— and a 
 Abraham, the coachman, ^^'^J, P^f ^i^J^ ^ Mmm^r and an axe found 
 
 of the same sort, to be his. »«^g*;;^*J^' ™g ^y^^ch coiresponded with 
 wocHi'^voon. at 11-Can.er^^^^^^^ 
 
 Home t< indm Cuthanne wai» ^s- J^^ > rthouirh hlKhly improbable] that 
 
 the prisoner; l>^t ^* If'*^ ^°* ^.^P^hl ho^^^^ ^ 
 
 ^JT ^t; Hr^^TtTne^Atog rhe JS o? th'^ ■■ said Mr. DH#^ 
 
 Tbl> went on almort every night for a ■»"« "^ irtHdent to show that an 
 ten and gctog away .«"'?; .^.f^JonriLTandthe deccai«>d. That he 
 Wproper i^'^'^^^^'^fi^^'^'^-X^^Z^ZMiiai be the shadow of a 
 
 S^^ii d pJSJ^ Ac ft.mlt«ro'n.ed there, ,lnee In a t**™"'"^™" 
 ^^S5S^ ^r0^gn.Bnchanan , ^^^;^y , ^^ ^ ^ 
 
 S.,r r iL^vTsf ??."it^v: »:SaSre mm h.15. *«. . 
 
 , 
 
"Iff* 
 
 ""•^ fu-i\-" jj-syS 
 
 jit-Major 
 [lined the 
 : the pre- 
 hed, was 
 )m which 
 .ndlestick 
 
 be like 
 one time 
 
 ion King 
 om floor ; 
 rolled Tip 
 ch James 
 od — and a 
 axe fotind 
 •ty of ttie 
 laimed by 
 er articles 
 in Green- « 
 nded with 
 jlyagaiast 
 «ble] that 
 erson than » 
 was the**- 
 tween the 
 
 1 from M* 
 OrqcnWood 
 t'sevidcticc 
 se was left 
 trine Walsh 
 jncw,* says 
 reral':iame8. 
 ise, passlilg 
 icketts th4t 
 iftt Duckett 
 rs. tJhckett, 
 'ofrt a cart. 
 ;' stamping 
 .o6d In the 
 heard them 
 
 id go O-^" 
 oming after 
 low that an 
 d. ThAthe 
 aliadbw of a 
 m, but also 
 ment ▼olnn- 
 
 1 DIOIAIBD'B 
 
 ^5B^te?k«d 
 *» hmie had . 
 
 tS.Sr;Wis^Si"cS^t^^^^ -^ *^^t he ca... 
 
 tricaUy opposed to thetoiSm^Wc^! * *'?^- ^«^^ ^a« testhnony diame- 
 
 was admitted by his ooinsel. ^^"^ purchased by Greenwood 
 
 BtetemrtXe'^J^r^f^S^^^^^^^^ ^ volunteered any . 
 
 evid^ce against himself ' ^ZS^ ^l^^^""* conipleted the chain of 
 been in thJ habit of keenine co^nln^tTf rfl^"?^ *^ «^^ *hat he had 
 furniture for her, ^dSLT^^J'\^^^^i''^ "^^^^^ of bringing 
 It was an excess TfS?7Kav«nJ^T J'f "^^^ night after ni?hf 
 defence. He was ?roffiy^^en ^b^^t .hit"^^^^^^ *°,r ^ ^«^^ ^^ ^^ 
 . mfi^ aad hoped by putting ^a b^M Ll * "l^^^ent self-possessed as he 
 
 ^t^ ?* ^ Jt^aloneiTh: C^l^^^th^t fe stetd V^^ ^'"^^^ »^^- 
 a CSaiharine Walsh's house Tn Ai^^-wf ^'^^l^^® ''*»*ed ^^e had never been 
 
 After the murder,then Lterr^ted^!' the coachman, he said,tVe day 
 
 u« were in the iabit of koS?^«1 n. * subject, "it wasweu'nTne of 
 
 Sergaant-MajorSngs SedLl^d'wT «ll»^* besu^ected;" and to 
 
 girl," when asked Sy to SSS^^^^i. "L^^^ ndthing/aUt that 
 
 be^the subject ^mentZTt^n^:^ ^f'^^l^^^^ ^^ 
 needed no accuser. Before beinff X.r«^ -J^il . .ffuilty conscience 
 Ms defence : unfortunS he^om«ISf 7'*^*?"^ ^"f'^' ^« ^^^^^d upon 
 this branch of thV^^Lf^^wT*^ ^'^f*^ »P»lP»^le«atai,th. I^ 
 
 Cameron's butler!whIchlS^ «hnf^ ^iT**. !t^*^^ ^^ ^'^g'^ I^«i<i, Mr 
 Greenwood and Ardec?'*? ^^^^^^^^ mtamacy which exirt^d ^twSn 
 
 Mn earner^ h^^r^^^n^^^^S^^ i}? <if*t^'«#& 
 seeing her there, asked hSif she wS^iroLS w. ten o'clock at niH«, ftad 
 wood had prom/sed to go with LT OnS??' '^^ '"^i^'^ **^** '^'»- 
 kitchen, told her to go down th« Utv. o!!i ??^' Greenwood came into the 
 
 fewmin'utes. 8feel/fttt^gh^4lt^rd1>^ai^^ Jf"^^ 
 .aer. **"*: "^^ **"<*'> *»d |hp prisoner w«|.t a^tQr 
 
 Could :cither Mr. or Mte nnrir*<i'fci,Il!'^ ' ^"- :' *--r'-'- -.^^ ■a.Y^*suv,v 
 thev saw l^ro ctthZln^'^^^TJ^ -T^ P«^«^«»^ that tho man 
 16^ April was GreenXJl tl LT** ^^^^^^ ^^ the morning fof tho 
 tfe Crown;^^, aSrghlt would wh? "^f^^'^l^ «««Bted the^cEfe Tor - 
 the murder of Wsh Tthi^t aS^t W« if* ^f** '"®^^*^^* ^ ««^o«nt for 
 previously, as we wUl'Sr w'Sd^Jt ^Z tT ''^°'" "^ °^ ^^^^t hours 
 home the crime of arson tThLrriT'^ ** ^,^''^** ^^e coaclusively brought 
 next best tWng S U ImL n^. J5'r?!i^^ "^^ but they didTe 
 
 poduced in X^ was ^''o^e wnt*'h*'^*S^ ^' ** ^^* of Greenwo<S'8 
 bouse of CathariS \vll8h nn *i, ™ ^^. ■**'*' 1^™°° "be saw leaving the • 
 b^ilHmd swoS^^^Sie W ^ec?^' fn""''^ ?^ ^* ^"*^ April, anfher 
 ia Mr. Cameron's hW^SddhJ • '« r^^'' «"*'"« *?*« *^« gardener's room, 
 one worn bv the iSttat^ght^ "Imwi, coat which I declare to be the 
 
 «» fiw to«t coadudve teSLSnf J^l^"*' j;*?y»««n bad been hanged '^ 
 ^ oWld of whiehSttr^^ Jt? h^^^^ ^f^^^.^'' * questioXit 
 
 -mark iba^' acting t J tl^w^Al^^^ 
 
 -m«A luT;^„r'f;«^P*S^^„^ bed «lgbt «ft.>r night.^ And here aS! 
 ^ *^ ?^ ?^*'''?P^,'»*«tement to the Coroner, thiU hi 
 
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 had frequently seen the deceased in company with one Matthew McNulty, 
 it was attempted to be shown that he might have been guilty of the fearful 
 crimes charged against the prisoner ; but the attempt utterly fell to the 
 ground. Who, then, could be actuated by the same desire to destroy all 
 ev0ence of his infamy as Greenwood himself? Did Catharine Walsh and 
 her child live, he would certainly be regarded as the father of the little one, 
 and be compelled to support both it and its mother. Here was an addi- 
 tional reason why he should be seized with the desire to rid himself of the 
 incumbrance which his victim would necessarily be to him had she 
 continued to live. These are mpre suppositions, but they are suppositions 
 derived from the evidence, and who will say that they are not justified 
 by it? 
 
 Although we have ventured upon these remaks in this jilace, we have not 
 yet come to the end of the evidence produced at the trial.' Very important 
 considerations arise out of the medical testimony. We have seen fit to 
 reserve it until this stage of the narrative, because, together with the 
 attempt made to prove an alibi for the prisoner, at the time when, according 
 to the doctors, the murder must have taken plice, it was the only portion 
 of the evidence for the prosecution wfflch the prisoner's counsel sought to 
 turn to the advantage of the accused, and in some measure relied npon by 
 the defence to establish the innocence of the accused, it comes in iiere in 
 the natural sequence of those events which make up the preseht retitme. 
 
 On Greenwood's coat, found in his room in Mr. Cameron's house, were 
 discovered 'several blood marks on the right" sleeve and collar. The 
 question arose whether these stains were caused by human blood or the 
 blood of a lower animal or a fowl. Greenwood himself bad declared at 
 one time that he received them when fighting a game-cock which he owned ; 
 and agaia^-fife told Sergeant-Major Hastings that it came from a cow which ^ 
 a shoft tame before had calved on Mr. Cameron's premises. Here again 
 the prisoner placed himself at a disadvantage. He <was not aware—as 
 probably many persons better educated than he were not aware — ^that by the 
 aid of a powerful microscope, it is possible to tell the difference between 
 the blood of a human being and that of a fowl or other animal of the brute 
 creation. The evidence given on this point by Dr. Bovell , particularly, and 
 also by Dr. Phillbrick, was interesting and important. Dr. Bovell, by the 
 aid of a microscope which magnifies 200 diameters, made an examination 
 of the blood-stains on Greenwood's coat, as also the blood of a bird and a 
 cow, and found the former to differ materially from the latter. His testi- 
 mony was to tbe effect that the corpuscles of the -human blood average a 
 larger size than those of the blood of, say an ox. There are in the blood of 
 the mail, corpuscles ^as small as may be found in the blood 'of the ox. 
 There are in the blood of the ox corpuscles as large as many of thoie 
 found in the blood of a man. But the largest of the human corpuscles are 
 of a larger size than the largest of those of the ox. Further than this, he 
 found that the difference in the epithelium, or scales of ^e skin, when 
 placed under the magnifying power of the microscope, may, when present 
 in blood, servo as a guide to show the portion of the body from whence that 
 blood comes. Moreover, the difference between the epithelium of the 
 
 whether the blood is that of a man or a beast. The particles composing 
 the blood of a human being, he asserted, are disc-sbapeti, while tho«e of a 
 
 fowl or 
 particle 
 experin 
 being, i 
 himian 
 tlic resi 
 those 
 testified 
 stains o 
 an ox, a 
 tion he 
 of the n: 
 at deliv< 
 compare 
 womb i 
 them. ' 
 found tc 
 might re 
 
 ThiSB 
 
 be comei 
 
 weakest 
 
 ^ He^setu] 
 
 werehui 
 
 Agnes'M 
 
 the blooc 
 
 the coUai 
 
 Walsh di 
 
 Greenwo< 
 
 of her tee 
 
 the blood 
 
 have cut ] 
 
 his coat o 
 
 these thet 
 
 own judg 
 
 correct as 
 
 them all i 
 
 that the b 
 
 Taken in ( 
 
 bore stron 
 
 It is no^ 
 
 prisoner. 
 
 it would ti 
 
 Condition j 
 
 He testifier 
 
 *oimi were 
 
 when the i 
 
 sible that i 
 
 must there 
 
 some s i a L m 
 
 counsel to 
 
 during the 
 
 KV ^ ■■^i"-"- 
 
 >>\.' Jf t-fe. . •,,' H ' 
 
[cNulty, 
 e fearful 
 11 to the 
 sstroy all 
 'alsh and 
 ittle one, 
 
 anaddi- 
 ilf ofthe 
 
 had she 
 positions 
 
 justified 
 
 have not 
 mportant 
 een fit to 
 with the 
 Etccording 
 [y portion 
 sought to 
 I niion by 
 n liere in 
 re Sterne. 
 
 )UBe, were 
 iar. The 
 od or the 
 leclared at 
 he owned ; 
 ;ow which 
 [ere again' 
 aware — as 
 hat by the 
 le between 
 
 the brute 
 alarly, and 
 ell, by the 
 camination 
 [)ird and a 
 
 His testi- 
 
 average a 
 le blood of 
 'of the ox. 
 y of those 
 puscles are 
 an this, he 
 skin, when 
 len present 
 rhence that 
 uift of the 
 
 d e term ine- 
 
 19 
 
 S^ticles «!??h^ t^l''!- ^^•^^fe'^i'^^- We quote from his evidence :-'^ The 
 
 ZLoiX^o^^uTZ^r ^^ *^' ^Sroga^. The particles ?esemWed 
 tefiliflpS +A K • ? ^^"^? ^^^^ * woman at delivery? Dr PhiUbrick 
 S on the c^f Srhld^'"^^* disc-shaped particleVof. blood ^^^^^^ 
 aTox a fisV ^\iS\ compared this blood with the blood of a cow, 
 ^n he had\^. Tw ^^^ ^i^ ' I'''^ ^"^ ^« do^l>* ^'^^ the examinal 
 of S,rmuco^lrV!if^^^ °^ *^« coat came from some portion 
 
 at S^^ IT« W 5 * human being, such as would come from a woman 
 comnare «»■« SLh ^^^1 '"^ i^mutely into experiments on this point ^ to 
 wS Of a row fhff'*'''^'' ''^ *^^ ^^* ^"^ ^^^ Wood taken from the 
 trS The t^Jtt^ofTe^nTr*' ^^^ ""'^^^^^^ °° «^^^^"*y ^^'^'^^ 
 found to preserve bio J if ?i^' ^"^ T'^' ''*' ^^° ^^^^ ^^«* ^^ could be 
 
 might x^mSn for ^wL;^ yearT ""' "'* ^"''^'^ ^''"*' *^^ ^^^^^ 
 
 be^^li^fd **wT''**^w'* P**'^ ^^"^ *^« prisoner's counsel : ai)d it must 
 ^^t delip5* '*7!f *$a* part of the evidence upon which'he made^Oie 
 STet ,m f I .V ^3^^^^' ^^ admitted his inkbiUty to treat it properlv 
 ' wer^ hZ. At ^r^^I:^^^ **^" ^^^o^ ^-First, That though CTSd 
 S8iThS'h^tt^^?^^"^^^*^'^V*^^*^* °f Catharinr^^ 
 thfbloK.1 bel W tronli"^ *V^i!?J^ ^- Pr^^on's-might no^ 
 the collar ofIhA n!fJi ^Secondly, the blood could not have got upon 
 
 GreenwoS had «f r?nt S S^*- 1?'/^^^' '* ^'"^ appeared in evidence that 
 of he? te^ o^f lu? ^**^^« Walsh at Mr. Cameron's, and knocke^^one 
 
 IX::aonMs : a^ aT^yS ? "'^ouriSrtr^ ^^' ^^ had recH 
 
 c^ect asZt 'set un hv?,; ^^ '^'V-^^"" ^^ *^^^ ««^«» ^ likely to be 
 themyL^e WoS« -1^ only reasonable tiieoiy of 
 
 that the bloS (S^eno* V *^*J? "P'"* ^y *^^ testimony of the doctors, • 
 Taken in cZe^nw^thS^''-'^^^'^ "^*'^"* from a mucous membrane 
 here str^^^^t^i:^;j;^^---t--s, this branch oC,|l» evidence 
 
 pri"one?%nT«!? T'^^'l *^^ ^**^^P* '"^^ *« s^* "P an alibi for the 
 itwS+.t ^®***^.*^/« '^^'^ w®'* examined were of the opinion that 
 eonmon^'^ScS'if^^^ hours for the body of the deceased tcTH to ^at 
 He teS^f tL* v'* T^ ^''''''^ ^^^"^ Constable King entered the house 
 W we?e o^i Itt^^ ^^"li^^ ^^^ hody it was cold, but not stiffTe 
 ^n^e n2^ t«i ?^'i ^^ *he woman had been killed in the morAi^! 
 dble tTa? S?h^^ r M^?""^! ^^ ^°"«« ^y ^^«- ^"ckett, it was impofl 
 
 Ze rr T,.^T,^^<-^P^^^^^^^^^ doctors. 
 
 ortM prisoheFs" 
 teen at the hqm^ 
 him from flve^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 fV- ' ' 
 
 composing 
 thane of a « 
 
 cou^el to show, if he cTSH^ITGr^n^dT^ 
 during the previous evening dp to ten o'clock. To t' 
 
■^^F" 
 
 [H y 
 
 20 - 
 
 .half-i)ast five up to that hour was, therefore, the task which devolved upon 
 him, John Clark, a tavern-keeper reciding on the corner of Queen Street 
 and Spadina Avenue, proved that the |)risoner had been in his house at 10 
 o'clock on the night of the murder ; he had had something imder his arm, 
 but witness did not kn^ow what it was, John Farrcll, who keeps a tavern 
 near the same place, saw him at his place, as near "as he could tell, about 
 nine o'clock. James Abraham, Mr. Cameron's coachman, saw him in the 
 lane, returning home, about half-past eight ; and the prisoner then told him 
 that he "had been oveikto Farrell's, to get a glass of beer." . Here is a 
 discrepancy of half an hour between Abraham's and Farrell's statements. 
 Abraham did not see the prisoner agai^ until next morning. Mrs. Rapley, 
 who resides nearly opposite Mr. Cameron's, was regarded by the defence a^ 
 their most important witness. She testified that Greenwood had called at 
 her place at six o'clock on the night of the murder ; he left, and returned at 
 half-past six, and remained until seven, when he went away agaiii, as he 
 said, to nail a piece of tin on a rat-hole in Mr. Cameron's house. He 
 returned again about eight (subsequently, on cross-examination, she did 
 not think it could have been as late as eight, and again she tljbnght it 
 might,) and staid at her placd until within a few minutes of nine,^en he 
 left, saying he would go to Farrell's for a glass of beer. In a fev^minntes 
 afterwards, he came back once infore to speak to heu mother about a 
 concertina he had bought from her. He went away finally at ten o'clock. ^ 
 Samuel Hallett remembered having seen the prisoner at Farrell's, beWeen 
 half-past eight and nine. Other persons swore to have seen him betii^reen 
 nine and ten. Austin Kerr, one of Mrs. Cameron's servants, said he had 
 been in the housi between half-past nine and ten, as did also another of the 
 servants named Ellen Grieves. Mrs. Rapley, it will be seen, stated that he 
 was at her place all the time from nine to ten. 
 
 From this evidence' Mr. Cameron boldly jumped to the conclusion that 
 
 the prisoner was accounted for from half-past five to ten o'clock ; and that 
 
 as the murder could not have been committed subsequently, according to 
 
 the medical testimony, the prisoner could not have committed the murder. 
 
 At the best the evidence Avith regard to time is moat conflicting. Mrs. 
 
 . Rapley's is particularly open to doubt, as her conduct towards i^he prisoner 
 
 —kissing him in the dolice station, and lending him a watch, together with 
 
 other similar attentions— shotted her to be on very intimate terms with 
 
 him. If her evidence ia correct; that of the servants in Mr, Cameron's 
 
 * house is incorrect '., and we see "no reason to doubt their testimony. Then 
 
 others had seen him after six o'clock, and before half-past nine, when Mrg. 
 
 Baplex swore that he was at her place. But without varying much, if any, 
 
 from her statement, it can be shown that sufficient time is unaccoi|nted for 
 
 by her to have permitted the prisonpr to commi!M*» horrible deed of blobd 
 
 we are recording. From a ful and careful' consioeration of the evidencet we 
 
 are led to believe that the murder was committed bfetween seven, tod e^ht 
 
 o'clock. About that time Mrs. Williams, who Jived near by, 'igftw'a^in 
 
 light in Catharine Walsh's window." A few moments would toar.e^wifi^d 
 
 to tane away the woman's life. "Weak and depressed she would have bden 
 
 unable to offer any strenuous resistance. The position of the woman's 
 
 f/ygiift w hen fnund^ prot rudi ng as i t was frojn her mou th — atfoi-ded str ong 
 
 "ground for the belief that she had been stmngled either by^tighMag *^ 
 
 nightdress and ch^'mise around her " ' — -- '■ - "" 
 
 
 throat, or in some other similar wiy. 
 
 L-S--. 
 
 As Di-. I 
 
 after the 
 
 wind-pi] 
 
 on the p 
 
 less, dea 
 
 than tha 
 
 audas o 
 
 in a way 
 
 quite suj 
 
 to Mrs. 
 
 plausibh 
 
 to prove 
 
 Thusi 
 
 mitted,.. 
 
 person* g 
 
 was ther 
 
 ceed in a 
 
 ness of t] 
 
 visit Say 
 
 of i:^e fo 
 
 Greenwo 
 
 o'clock. 
 
 and not < 
 
 the firesl 
 
 a pair of 
 
 room by 
 
 sity for h 
 
 ent of sui 
 
 Duckett 1 
 
 had on a 
 
 on his CO 
 
 tance fro: 
 
 in favor < 
 
 in envelc 
 
 — in sucli 
 
 guilty ; tl 
 
 so Ingenii 
 
 if the ret 
 
 sire to r 
 
 give his 
 
 upon the 
 
 the dec^ 
 
 l^dge and 
 
 William 
 
 stwQLdsfoi 
 
 There 1 
 must refe 
 a womaif' 
 luainted 
 
 
 J&ltieiEe 
 to snppos 
 
 
?olved upon 
 Jueen Street 
 house at 10 
 der his ami, 
 eps a tavern 
 i ten, about 
 
 him in the 
 len told him 
 Here is a 
 I statements. 
 Mrs. Rapley, 
 le defence ap 
 lad called at 
 I returned at 
 agaiii, as he 
 house. He 
 tion-she did 
 3 tnonght it 
 ineXwhen he 
 
 fe^minntes 
 her^ about a 
 i ten o'clock, 
 ill's, between * 
 lim between 
 
 said he had 
 nother of the 
 tated that he 
 
 Qclusion that 
 -k ; and that 
 according to 
 I the murder, 
 icting. Mrs. 
 1 (j^lie prisoner 
 together with 
 e terms with 
 It. Cameron's 
 nony. Then 
 le, when Mrfi. 
 much, if any, 
 accounted foi; 
 deed of bloOd 
 } evidencerwe 
 ^eUuAnd eight 
 r, <i )i(ftw*8 <8rti 
 hay:ec«siffisi«d 
 lid hare b^en 
 the woman's 
 Bforded strong 
 
 
 r Himilar wrfy 
 
 '■l» W Wi.WiiBj.!!W>l> 
 
 21 
 
 ^l ^J^Vy^} ^■'^j^^^^'^ed in a letter published in '• The Leader" some days ■ 
 after the trial, " The grasp of a stout fist on the lower part of the neck o» 
 wmd-pipe, the night^ess held over the mouth and nostrils, with one knee ' 
 on -the pit of the stomach, and the poof wretch is utterly powerless voice- ^ 
 less, dead, in a fejv moments. The deed Committed, what more 'natural 
 than that the person committing it should sW himself in as many nlaces 
 md m often as he could about the time." T^^e iB^id Greenwood doiixe 
 in a way wqich on any other theory would be unaccountable, Ai?hour was 
 quite sufficient to perpetrate the inhuman deed,.aad go from and come back 
 to Mrs.Eapley's There is dotiiing unreasonable in tius': it is not oidv 
 plausible, but agrees with the eyidence of the dodtora MweUaa that di^ed 
 to prove an alibi, v ^ V . rr -««• v»»v.,^ 
 
 Thus it is possible to account fot the time" at' Whibh tli^ murder was com- 
 mitted. T^e brutal act once perjJetrated we may well understana that the 
 person guilty of it i^ould desire to get rid of tti? body. A second viSt 
 was therefore necessary ; and^hat time wouldlie be hioro likely to stl&; 
 ceedm accomplishing Ms. purpolse in this respect that at the^ead sfe 
 ness of the night, A^-hen most people would be Wrapped in shimb^r To 
 
 of ttfe foul deed welre tc)>e obliterated. There yi^ noHxiii to show^hat 
 Greenwood cotild jiot hVe beeii a* -Catharine Walsh's befr»rtJen J and 3 
 o'clock. The fact that, on going intoliiB bed-room he left the doo^ hW ' 
 and not quite closed to, must be regaiaed as su^cious. Then there wefe 
 the ft-esh marks in «ie ground outside the window of bis tt)om to which 
 a pair of boots found in his room corresponded exactly, i'hat ke left fis 
 room by night would seem to bo the natural inferenc>^4h6?* was no neces 
 sity for his going out in such a >ay during the day time. But independl 
 ent of such suppositions ^^th6«e,ther$ ig the diirwt testimokylof Mrs 
 Duckett that the petson whb left Oatharihe Walsh's' house in the momini^ 
 had on a coat which she identified to be Greenwood's.' Who likely to havS 
 on his coat bUt himself? On calm consideration of these points at this dls 
 tance from the trial it ibiist be confessed there is nothing to weigb,«tronelv 
 in favor of the prisoner's innocence. Hi* Council succeeded very cleverly- 
 m enveloping this point-^certainly the most important one for the accused 
 —jn such a mystery, that the jury were itaable to agree upon a verdict of 
 guilty ; they gave him the full benefit of the doubt.ao strongly raised' and 
 80 ingeniously worked up by Mr. Cametori. We have slated one theory • 
 if the reader think it is not right he can to reject it. ' It is with no del 
 sire to make blacker than it is the, character of one who is nowgone to 
 give his account before tlie Great Searcher of Hearts that we have dweft 
 upon the teyid^nce in the way that we have. As biographers of the life of 
 the dec^^ed w© have *o do our duty faithfully and to the best of our know-' 
 l^e and belief. 0® belief is that Catharine Walsh was murdered hv ' 
 William Greenwood. W^ may be lyrong, but that is our belief, and it noi 
 sttods for what It w^rtfi. "Litem scriptainanet.|»,i,;;^, > 
 
 There were a tew pto^ointe^i^ favor of fiid prisoner whiAwe 
 must refe^t<f briefly. One was that a^ tfife accused was found bandaired as 
 a womairtfc her condition wo^a tto afte^ child-birth, some one well ae! 
 
 -y^i 
 
 Oi^SleiffirTOilh wieto she was delivereOflie child. There is no reiSon 
 to suppose IhAt the bandaging took place after delivery. The dififtculty on 
 
 ■m 
 
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 *.:^r 
 
 m^ 
 
 ll 
 
 ii !■ 
 
 22 
 
 thiB Hcoro is obviated by the direct statement of Ur Aikins, tliat the ban- 
 dage might have been pushed aside, and the delivery taken place with it 
 on. FiVeTytblng went to show that she had had an easy delivery. Then 
 there wflt A* question of the prisoner's hirsute adornments. When he 
 rented tht U)m*i in OctoW Mrs. Duckett said he wore neither moustaotie 
 nor whiskeib I»h r,t Acrraphs were procured to ihow that the prisoner had 
 whiskers on his tu^v 1/ the Fall and Spring. But as the photographer had 
 kept no memorandum of the time he had taken the picture he was able to 
 ^eak merely from the probable light in which they were taken— a sort of « 
 evidence which coujd certainly not weigh with the jury, and to which w« 
 believe the Judge did not refer in his charge. ^ 
 
 We have thus gone carefully over the case, omitting no point of import-"^ 
 ance.on one side or the other. On the fifth day of Ae trial Mr. Cameron ^ 
 spoke on behalf of his client for some two hours and a half • Mr! Bichards - 
 followed in a speech which extended over seven hours and a* half • and His 
 Xiordship ably summed up the evidence. It was eight minutes to eight when 
 the jury retired. At five minutes after nine they returned to the Court 
 which was still "crowded with anxious spectators. The names of the jurors 
 having been read over, and the usual questions having been put, the fore- 
 man rose amid profound silence ap| pronounced the verdict f'NO't 
 
 GUILT Y."^ There were slight 4emoifii;ations of appladse in the gallery. 
 
 The prisoner then rose and declared that he was^^ot guilly of the crime. 
 As he was yet to be tried upon otiier charges he was kept in the custody of 
 the Sheriffs officers. .. 
 
 ; 
 
 THE ABSON CASE. 
 
 oh Monday, tlie 16th of January, this unfortunate man was arraigned at 
 the Toronto Assizes on a charge of feloniously, unlawfully, and mali- 
 ciously setting fire to the residence of Catharine Wajsh, situated, as already 
 stated, on Sayer street, on the Morning of the 15th of April. 
 
 Mr. Justice Jf^ilson presided, Mr. Thos. Gait, Q. C, and Mt. S. Ricft 
 ards, Q. C, pro^uted, and the prisoner was again defended by hi^ inde&ti 
 igable Counsel, Mr. M. C. Cameron, Q. C, assisted by Mr. J. CanavaMitl 
 prisoner's attorney. ^^ 
 
 This trial grew out of the previous one whJr^reenwood was 
 themurd^of Catharine Walsh. As at the former *"*il n irpni, ■■— jm 
 interest was taken in this case, and the gallery and court room were pretty 
 well crowded with citizens and strangers who evidently expected additional 
 evidence, and petfia0|i| startling developments connoted with the case as 
 the police had beSHMgorously to work in the further investigation of the 
 case ; but notwithj^Bii^tfi&eling.the opinion strongly prevailed that 
 because the prison^ ]||BP|fi)l|il guilty of the murder, ^e would be also 
 
 son. i^^ this feeling miy be accounted 
 
 ^*"'®'Wr***'^ nearly the same evidence 
 ithefor^trial. -^^'•r^- -;'■:; :- :i^,. v 
 
 acquitted on the les' 
 for froni th^ fact 
 would be brought 
 
 The Crown Coimsei, h owever^ a ppe a r^te haye thfl^l iti# ercntly/ aadt 
 
 entered upon the prosecution with even greater zest than they evinced 
 
 
' •■«••»•»* •Si'.KSd- 
 
 arraigned at 
 ' and mali- 
 1, as alFeady. 
 
 .were pretty 
 d additional 
 the case, as 
 »tion of the 
 Bvailed ^oAt 
 raid be also 
 e accounted 
 e evidence 
 
 23 
 
 I 
 
 '"-"T^WPT 
 
 
 hat the ban- 
 lace with it 
 very. Then 
 8. When he 
 r moustaotie 
 prisoner had 
 >grapher had 
 I was able to 
 en — a sort of* 
 to which w«i 
 
 it of import-^ 
 If r. Cameron > 
 ^r. Bichards - 
 Eilf; and His : 
 eight when 
 bo the Court, 
 of the jurors 
 ut, the fore- 
 Uct^f' Not 
 le gallery. 
 
 t the crime. ^ 
 e custody of 
 
 -% 
 
 evidently , 
 vious trial,"' 
 'fidediMmsl 
 
 m 
 
 his secret lust. <^,2tef^ theweak and helpless in order to gratify 
 
 •When *^«^i**^,Pl^^^^^^ he appeared^ quite composed, 
 
 .rouffVKnerSv i«Vi!' ^""^^ o^ aP acquittal as upon the pre! 
 
 ^ar^l^^JSnTtStJlln^ ^est ^a^nce^lIl^^^tTSJe 
 
 jm^to';i>S?t\?;:;'i:?uri^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 the murder of the unfortunate wS^W^ir^ v® *"** ""^ ^^"^ prisoner fipr 
 a charge of takimr awavH? hnl^i ^ '^' ii^ ^^ ^"^ "«* ""^ ^^ trial on 
 cupled Sy the mSS J^^^'^^l^f ?« f ^^ to the premises oc- 
 ^ matter to which he 3dCt iSr SlSi!^ *^*^ ^Ti*^* thare was-one 
 the last trial it w* Svered that fh« «^ ''*'°^' ""^^ i^*** ^*« *^* ««*ce 
 
 he was tried for tiie mih^eTof CatheiSe wii»S ^'S?* n * ^^^^^^^ ^^<»'^ 
 Cameron, had^poken of K i^JuIilTw^ !?ti.?** Pr^^^'i'.Mr. M. C. ^ 
 destroy the evidence of iS ©Sett wh^«Ll ?k .*"u' *^d in order to 
 prisoner by it, made him own WsL^fh f^K *?** *^^. '*e«>gni'=«f the 
 and as the too'th referTrt^^^ k^ Du^etroiS?H "'^f ^" ^ ^^.^ J'^' 
 disbelieved her statement and aconitiS^! ^^^ "^ ''^ ^^"^ **»« j^^y 
 bring witnesses forward ?o "^eTiXenwST^^^^^^^ "^^^^ ^^J?** 
 
 tooth, and that it had been eitmct^ fi^m hiSl„ ?k • n"'' ^J^\^ V^^^^^mt 
 his last trial. This w^ a SS^oiSf t^^ '*' ^^V'^'l* ^^T^'*^^ ^^«^<^ 
 would have its weight^5t^?"ur>-^ '^ considered, and he hoped it 
 
 watf HflMk the peculiar tooti 
 Mrs. Ducket, the colored, 
 arrested by a tooth, \^hi " 
 tpoth on the upper righ' 
 at the murder trial iie^" 
 as tiiere was no app^arani 
 statement of Mrs. Duckei 
 
 li^.^. £ °r: »Kj""»" w" mo previous trial 
 
 l^y referred to. It will be remembered that 
 
 »»i, Identified the prisoner when he was first 
 
 WW 1.?''^ immediately behind, the eye 
 
 When Mr. Cameron was addressing the jury 
 
 :#e prisoner exhibit his mouth tothe jury, And 
 
 ..<rf a peculiar toothy the jury discredit^ the 
 
 . ^ , .ti.«ad acquitted the prisoner. "^ . ^7*, "*f 
 
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 tion by haWng the toSSued^flnH A * v^^ pnsonef W used decfep. 
 ttJ« fw- f \ r**^* **"«<* 0"t, and thereby secured his acquittal. 
 
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 apinetthe prisoner at tljepresenrSm^^^^^ **"'' as evidence 
 
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 had a peculiar toollh. when he was first an-eS^TT*S ^ P^°^® *h** h© 
 to the satisfaction of the jury; they aDnoar^ri f" ^^"^ ^^'^ ^'«& Proved 
 convict him. "' - ^' ^ appeared to hmko up .their minds to 
 
 ■ la^; ^S^^ouJi^cS* *' '"*^^^ *^^ ^«^^^ '^^ *^« evidence about the 
 
 most searching cross-examination by Mr OamprL ^^i!"*""®, subjected to the 
 • witnesses to rebut the testimony on m^ ^nf >.' T^?. '^'^ ^^"^^ ««vo«a 
 investigation the jury returned^ verdk of auil T V^^*^'' * - ^ ''^^ 
 
 and he was sentenced to Seven yL^^It ^^^^^ against the prisoner. 
 PenitentiarJ^ When the vexSct iTluZ^^'''' J'k *^« ^^ovi^cia 
 9ioved a muscle, and while recefvinf ht « J,tT ^^^'^^ Greenwood never 
 Indiflfereuce. ' *"^ *"*' sentence he exhibited the uttnost 
 
 THB SECOiro AND ife MUEDEE TEIAL. 
 
 . Ji«h regard to t^h priX" ' hSirtb?'nE''t'i™'''"«*'"°P'^^^^ 
 ; the comlasieu that GreeiiVoSi Ll l»L i ^l'^}'" ^ KOMnilly oometo 
 
 ingoAlieco,„m«mtySZ„KlytrStMr?n/-.''"*'' .".'*• The feel. 
 fHoti,,, that the large maioXof iuZlM?v.'?'K''"™ '^*''»» "'"<'"««>- 
 even ..t„„,.g, he hli alri^^i' ^^^1^ trA-lXa' 
 
 aH confident hh 'during tC p'"v?o,?s S'. ' " ^"*-'' ""*^ '^^I^*^^'" - 
 
 tak'!raM^'twoV">rm^^^^^^^ altogether different ftom that • 
 
 him commit the deed oftffi/ ?wL ,^J',Xd'^'^^^^^^ Noono^aw 
 
 of two days, and no witnesses wereT^led J" 1« a^ *'""' ^2?*"'^ ""'3^ Pa^t 
 fore rests upon the evidence b.^ught"n hi th«^r^^^^ "^^ ^a«« there- 
 was so well and clearly analyVod by Siief iLi?, n" P'"^^^*^"*^'-. This 
 tion of the inhon,.T'H C,Z^,Tfi^\]^^^ 
 
 waste pf time ink and pa^^S us to rX to ? 'afwArr'** ^^ ^^^^««» 
 ments M the Court on that oc«uUon -i,^!! i 1 , ®**F**^ ***""• Th« jodg- 
 Points of the evidence p^S^I^Hin«?Th ^^f"^^ ^'^ *^^^*»>»y ^^^ »^H 
 instep of our own ^m'X of'lT. Lo It^I^^llLSl "\*'^'J'^'" "^^'^ 
 havlnif taken bi.ToneTiourto conSer^Lir vb^^^ 
 
■<i>Ssmim 
 
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 md the prisoner's 
 this as evidence 
 was arraigned on 
 
 toprovethfttho 
 lis being proved 
 
 their minds to 
 J 
 clencc about the 
 
 »ught forward to 
 subjected to tho 
 JO called several 
 three days' rigid 
 ast the prisoner, 
 the Provincial 
 reenwood never 
 ited the uttoost 
 
 TRIAL. 
 
 forming hasty 
 ag this opinion, 
 lerally come to 
 ith. The feel- 
 mo little satis. 
 « tried again, 
 imprisonment. 
 
 ock; thistlmo 
 illed the child 
 and abetted in 
 thisfrial. Mr. 
 V his former 
 and <vi)|^ari>(i , 
 
 •ont from that • 
 
 No one ^w 
 Ited only pa^t 
 he case there- 
 )Cutor. This 
 I the appMca. 
 i bo a useless 
 The jtid^. 
 ly the strong 
 subjoin thorn 
 toayilMUfln 
 
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 WhfU the jury returned and^ while entering the jury-box the prisoner 
 «tood up to receivd the verdict, a»d glanced wistfully at the jurj'. He was 
 pale and anxious, put very firm and decided. But when the awful verdict 
 was returned, wMch was to send him to the gallows, he became a little 
 paler and the next moment flushed. Beyond this, however, he exhibited 
 no symptoms of agitation. 'A 16ud murmur was heard through the crowd 
 in the body of thej Court-room and in the galleries, and a good deal of com- 
 motion followed, which, however, wfes soon suppressed by the constable 
 crying out " order in Court" several times. 
 
 His LosDSHlP tl en said — William Greenwood, have you anything to say 
 why the sentence of this Court should not be passed upon you ? 
 
 The PnisoNER— Yes, my Lord, I have. I am entirely innocent of the 
 charges brought against me, and I could make a statement, to prove that 
 what I say is cormct, bjit I suppose there is no use now in my saying any- 
 thing. I 
 
 His LouDsmp addressed the prisoner upon the fearful position in which 
 he was placed, ]Ie told him not to hope for reprieve or pardon, but pre- 
 pare himself to na eet his God ; and then sentenced him to be executed on 
 the 23rd February — just one month from that date. The prisoner was then 
 removed from Co jrt. . 
 
 APPLICATION FOR A NEW TRIAL REFUSED. 
 
 A rule flint for the hewing of argument as to whether a new trial should 
 or should not be mlowed the pri8one^;,^ Iftaving been granted, the applica- 
 tion was made and Counsel heard on tlib 11th of Feb., before Chief Justice 
 Draper, and Justices Hagarty and Morrison. Mr. Stephen Richards and 
 Mr. Jolm Bell ailgued against tho granting of the trial and Mr. Cameron 
 spoke in favor or it. On tlic ITtli of the same month their Lordships de- 
 livered judgmei^t as follows, the Court room being crowded with spectators. 
 We give the judgments very fully, because they set forth not only the facts 
 Imt the law^of tlie case, which are interesting to all ciasses of readers. : — 
 
 The OHiir Jotrioi omnineooed bj reading OTer the diffarent ooonti !■ 
 Ibe ttidlotmentkgatntt tbe prlnoner ^e than retDnred totbe slatato nndor 
 wbloh tbe appljlcatlon for a new triat was made He tben aaia— .On 
 p«Ttof the pfinoDer, I anrlArHttn * U to he ooQleoded, flnrt, that tbiA-e 
 BO evtdenoe givnn wbioh ought to h%r« been left and rabmltled to tbe J1117, 
 M anffloleot to jattlff tbe oobvlotlon of tbe priaonev, and tbl* Is broaght 
 before me atihowlng tlie Terdlot to be tgaloitr Uw And eeo )n4, admttttag 
 thftt tber« iMM eome OTldenoo for the oonilderatlon of the Jary, yet 111* 
 fAoti proT«d were altogether oontletent with tbe prisoner*! tnncKenoo— 
 that it Is ag**'^"' the weight of eVldance, wbtoh la a qnestlnn of fact, 
 ntber wllbln tbe meaning of tbe statnta, and as a groand for a new trial la 
 oItU aotloM. This aetata baa gtvaa leglalatlTa anttority tor a prooaadlng 
 AOl ianottonad by tba law of BbglMd, aa atated by Lord Yanyon In Bas at. 
 lUwhay '< In one clau of offanoaa— alidad— .tbeae greatar tlutt : 
 Wi»aoBaw trial pan bagmirtadat fcU." Tba flnl iM o«ly aata I 
 
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 ^mtm •« Boalfa, whlob w<m an Imttolmaiil for robbarywHh ytolaaoa, raaofii 
 
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 into tbo Court of Queen'a Benoli from the Hail borongh BeflsJonlsy certiorari, 
 Aud a rule nisi was obUlned for a naw ttlal on the grcund of Improper 
 ifioepllon ot evif^ence and mtiooniitractiou. Bat daril>g the argnment 
 uototivj word waa ealdaf to the Oontt granting a new trial In a case of felony 
 Tintll after the Jodgen had given their ripluloos in favor of making the rale 
 nbsolatG, and then U waa anggft9t> d that there wob a dJffloalty as to 
 drawing np the rale, no precedent bnvln^ bden foand for a new trial in 
 til e raee oT felony, to which Lerd 0»tf pbelL Chief Jastloe, replied, "that 
 might have been argament ttgalnat r nc beetrug the motioa." (4.fter refer- 
 ring to another case in polat, tlie learned Chief JosHce oontlnaad :) 
 
 Af to the first ground re}Ied upon, It aeehia material to Inqalre wjuat were 
 the qaeationa of fact presented for the determination of thejary; and 
 whether there was evidence saffiolent toba left to the jary on which to 
 detetmlne those qaestiona. The first qoHEtlon which it appears to me 
 neceaaary to determine la, was Agnoa UorahaU delivered of a child on 
 the 20th of Fabraarv, 1863 ? 
 
 To sustain the affirmativa there was, as to the fact of her pregenanoy 
 and dcltvoi7—- thongh not as to the pi<»clee time of it<^the ooncorrent 
 testimony cf Dfs. Phllbdck, Alkkena. Hodrier, Wright, Thorburn, Bovall 
 and Ogdao. Tn^itre was evidence thal^ilML died aboat the 30th of March, 
 1883. Dr PhUbrlok eaw her body afn»r death ; he conoladed that she had 
 bad a pretty btg child and that the afler-blrth which he saw, was that of 
 a matare child. [Aiter going thn ngh the medical evldenca— mil of 
 which has already been pabllahed— tb? learned Chief Jastlce continaed':] 
 
 There wa«, farther, the evidence rf Blargarel MoCaal, who lived as 
 t<«llow.eervMit with Agnefl Marahall lo: fourteen montha, ending on 14th 
 of iCebTaaTy, 1863, and with whom A^nea Ma shall alept ap to a abort 
 {i«rt'><1 before wltneae left, Bhe said tha% from nppQarauons, she aaapeoted 
 • - .T %.»nf« iyiar«*>a'l w«b near her rooflrsam^'n^- 'Any peraon 
 . fi ann«^ aho wm tn the famUy w«y when I Ibft Jine 
 WArTr.n a'«(Hd that abe saw Agnes Marshall on the aOih of 
 Fobicary, *od aftar describing many parUcBla's, pbe aald, 'I firmly 
 n itHve she wan d«Uvered qi a ohlld at fbitt Mmo " Mary Batlile said «he 
 ¥<%y AHnDi* Marshall In tbti i^arNery staDilnv at tho fli-e, aad notlond sha 
 w« tn l>>e family •"•v, bat abe di>«8 not fix ttietlui'i when thla wan Biiaa- 
 batli ti^resTtt awote ,.uo livad at Mr. Oameron'x alnce the 11th of Fobrnaiy, 
 1863 i htt Agnea Marshall was taken Itl the Friday after ; that she noticed 
 tMteeSaat Agnea was In the family way, and mentioned Itio the b itler. 
 Mfd. W»t8oa washed for Mrs Cameron and one servant— she sappoaed the 
 Bun ; taat the time Agnea Marshall was taken 111 a qnllled skirt and ander- 
 11 ^**D aud towelf ware Ina bad late with blood, Mrs. Cameron proved that 
 Mft Wa son waahed for hernf>tf aud Agnes, and that none of the soivants' 
 olothex titot pc <tgnea Marahah's went to Mra Watson. Mrs. Cameron alfO 
 •tated that Agaaa Manhall waatakensetlouily and suddenly 111 cm Friday, 
 lOh of Pfbrowry, 1868; that sha saw no unusaal sppearaooe abtrat h«t 
 iMfsM h«t I iMMts ; aftarwarda she appeartrd fearfuilf lU. Bha WM la bad 
 ttiSktm flPotooh thai afternoon looklag vary pale 
 ItDoad, mi Hhm nala child whosa body was fomd Im the yrl^ iatktyarf 
 
 glib OiMiniiri,itrebiiir« A|BWMBTU»iiT 
 
 II wat pMvad by oae of the poltoa itiff of tha olty of Ton»lo that on th* 
 SUt ot April, 1863, b^ «o*rohed fora child at Mr. Cameron's, aad employed 
 
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i>y certiorari, 
 of Improper 
 le argnoient 
 age of felony 
 (log the rale 
 oalty M to 
 law trial ia 
 epUed, "tltat 
 (A.fter refer- 
 lued :) 
 
 ire wiat were 
 hejary; and 
 )n whloik to 
 ipears to tnn 
 t a ohiid on 
 
 pregasMnoy 
 le oonomrent 
 trborn, Bovall 
 Ith of March, 
 that she had 
 r, WM that of 
 Eieno8-->alI of 
 oontinaed":] 
 pho lived as 
 Ding on 14th 
 xp to a ihort 
 Bhd enspected 
 Any pet son 
 
 Ibft Jane 
 Lo aoih of 
 id, 'I fltmly 
 Rilite said the 
 I notioAii the 
 lit w«H Biiaa- 
 I of Fobnia>7, 
 lat ahe noticed 
 to the hitler. 
 B inppoeed the 
 Urt and under* 
 on proTed that 
 )f the eeiTanta' 
 I. Oameron alfo 
 ' Ul oa Friday, 
 iDoe abovt her 
 ihe waa In bad 
 
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 ■to thai OB Mm 
 and employed 
 
 a peraun to oloar oat the prlrj. nudfoand the bodj of a m\U child. There 
 waa a oloth over the head c<f 'he child and a pleco of twlno aroacd the neck, 
 and another pleoe of twine tl'^d to a btick, and the btick waa attaohnrl to the 
 body He prodnood thp oloth, which ha aald appeared to bs an zipron A 
 piece of it waa waBhed, which ho aleo prodaoed ThlB pIsco waa eboTn to 
 Mrs OAmeroD, and she stated that the pattern wae very f«miHa7 to bur, bat 
 
 • she conld not swear that tha pleoa of apron produced was Agnes MmrphaU's. 
 Vrs. Watson, on the piece b&lcg shown to her, stnted th«t she washed an 
 apron of the same pattern belonging to AgijoaMftrsh»l!. It wsih a btff spron, 
 with a pink flower. It was proved by Mrs OatoMon that A-<no8 Marshall 
 brought her breakfast aboat ten in the morning that sb« waa taken ill. Mrs. 
 Wanen swore that she was soinbbin^ at Mrs, Oam^rott'a in the onter kitch- 
 en between eleven and noon on the day In qneetioc ; that Agces Marshall 
 was in the nursjory np staire>, and cnllod to the witnues, asking her to brlnf 
 some warm water. Mrs. Warren got the water in a pall. Near the foot tit 
 theMiiB she met the prisoner. He jast came down etaini and met the wit- 
 aeipl&d said he woald take it np, and she handed It to him. She saw th« 
 nriiimer aboat a qaarter of an hoar after, coming in from the yard with • 
 |i|[,1>y the Kame door he first omgdn. There was nothing In the pail. The 
 
 'prUouer saw her speaking to A^Huarshall. The pall he brought in waf 
 the same pail. The witne^B lodHpikto It. Lamont, the bntler, swore that 
 Mrs. Oameron asked b!m where ll^eB was (This, apparently, mast hare 
 been after Mrs, Cameron's breakfast was taken into h^r Lamon then went 
 fo find Agnes. Bhe was ia the water-closet. He told her that the children 
 were looking for her. Shu spoke to him It might be about twelTO 
 o'clock he saw the prisoner coming ont of the nnrsery or water.olo8et— ft 
 door prevented him seeing which prisoner went down stairs on his tip-toes, 
 and wae going down the main stairs leading to the kitchen ; be bad Dothlng 
 in his bands ; he saw the witoe^s at the hall stove, and be blashed. It 
 was between nine and tan the witness went to look for Agnes Marshall; 
 he saw her that morning aboat eight. He had been dlru^oted to answer 
 Mrs. Cameron's bell ; it was rang and ho went to answer it, and he heard ft 
 ■cream— >thls was aboat an hoar af t«r he bad seen tlie prisoner. The witness 
 looked Into tne nnrsery and saw Agntts Marshall lying on the carpet He 
 went down and told Mis. Warren to k'> op to ber. Mrs Warren swore that 
 being told by Lamont, she went ap stairs and found ber on the flsor on h«r 
 back in the nursery. It wes ahnut one o'clock, about three-qaarteis of an 
 hour after tha witnea^ got the pall of water Agnes Marshall's clothes wera 
 gathered about bar feet, and her hands and arms besmeared with blood. 
 The witness washed her hands, 4o^ and was about a qaarter of an hour 
 with her, and brought • pail of watnr Agnes Marsball told her she was 
 very siok and vary weak. The witness saw no biood on the floor, nor In- 
 dications of ft ohUd haviog been barn. Lamont also stated that havinf 
 Man Agnes Marshairftbout eight that morning, he next saw her about one. 
 Bhe was then In tha water-oloset aboat three hourf, be oould not say ezftotlj 
 fts ho waa not there |dl the time— she might have beov. The closet and tha 
 nursery were oIOM togather From the prevtois part of Lamoatli eiddenoe 
 U Wis plftta thftl ha meant the three hours frtm the time he went to look 
 
 -<0r haraftar Mtt. Oiawron fand farenkfaated. -O u t h e t l O t h oHrorltniwg^" 
 
 was made In tha cesspool with which this water«oloset was oonneotad ; ft 
 plaoenta— Uift ob« spokan of by the doctors— was found In It II was swon 
 
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 that nothing oonld puB to the cesspool but what went through the w«ifi- 
 oloset. The m»Tel string AttMhed to the plftoenta was abont eUMp 
 Inches long, and was broken off irregnlarly and obllqnelj. The na^iililllEBg 
 attached to the body of the ohUd was about five Inohei long, and waa 
 broken off In the same manner. The edges appeared to correspond, hot 
 ther were not put together to try whether they did actually correspond. 
 The erldence to which Dr. Bovell aUuded, as given by Mrs. Watson, was to 
 the effect that the seooiia week after she took the washing, after the 20th 
 July, 1.862 she discovered stains of blood on Agnes Marshall's clothes, which 
 She thought proceeded from the uinal causes. 
 
 Was the )chUd which was found in the privy bom allvoT ^ 
 
 The evidenoa of Dr. Atkins, which was confirmed by ofher medical man 
 wlio'saw the child's body, was to the effdflf that it weighed sevsn pouhda 
 ■nd a quarter, and was twenty-one inches long, was a male, had hair on the 
 hokd, long, black, and attached to tbe skull, nails developed, the skin had 
 its natural colour at the folds, the other ps«ts of a greenish hue, with no 
 marks of violence on the body ; the Hags full. Inflated, and acting evenly la 
 all their parts On removing the Inngs, with the heart and windpipe attach, 
 od. they all floated. Saoh lobe would swim, and, after pressure by the hand, 
 would float The bones of the head wyJUril developed, the frontals small, 
 no marks of injury The child must MH^teathed freely before its death. 
 The child was bom aUve, and was a smUf healthy ohUd. It was atmoi- 
 pherlc air alone that made the lungs float. 
 
 reuctfac-What was the cause of the chUds death ? 
 
 Dr. Alkln's stttement, In wh^kt the other medical men substantially cen- 
 osrr^, was 'hat the child's body wm In a pleCe of calico, which was secured 
 to the neck by a piece of twtne three times round the neck, one end of 
 which was fastened V> • half brick. After removing this, he lound.a deprea- 
 ■bo In th'» neck corresponding to tbe uttlng Death must have been 
 lua «d by t-aff iOitluK th« child by pntttnglts heed In water Dr Thorbum 
 couciaitid th«t the child was born about the fall time of utergestatlon, that 
 th^ child had breathel, and that It wan bora wholly Into the world alive. 
 A 1-0 that d.eth was o«u.«ed by design or foul pUy, which could be effecte<^ 
 bv p» tlbg the hands on tbe mouth, or by puttH»g It In fluid, »uoh as « 
 
 bni^kotof water. . . „. . 
 
 I'ifth- Wes the prisoner the person by whOse means the child cams to 
 
 Ujwa this question there Is the evldens^ of Mrs. Warren, already noted, 
 a» to the prisoners taking the pall of water from her to take it up to Agnei 
 Msr«h«ll, on the 20th rebrnsry, and his oom)ng In from the yaid in about a 
 qnsrt^ of en hour with the pall empty. ^h» also swore that she saw the 
 urienner »nd Affves Marth»ll In conversation about seven that morning, 
 end Agn»e wa. «.r>lng N p.r»oo%ho wm examined oould say whether 
 the ptUoaer was at dinner wltn tfiothcr servants on that day. After ha 
 brought In the pall, Mrt . Werrfn sifs she i/iok-d for him but could not find 
 t>lm. Hhe did not look m the water-close* After Mtl. W|g»awt« up, OB 
 
 , bt^lng told by Lsmont that Agn<s wss lying on the carpet. She (Mn.Waneii) 
 came down aff»in. and a«<»ed where the prisoner was. MipontMlMd tha 
 pTismin r^n slInd him To n< Hy I n tb* T >rd ,bnt could not asj Mt'^ff*^*"* 
 
 TouraSL^nhS^iralSy^^i^'^^^^^^^S^WW 
 l»e nursery or water-closet, and going •• down stat|| jm "- 
 •p stairs," at half-pMt twelve o'clock. 
 
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ghthe wfttei- 
 Mnt eigUKn 
 enft^wnig 
 long, and wm 
 nespond, bat 
 f coneipond. 
 ration, WM to 
 after the aotb 
 ilothes, wUoli 
 
 medioal 
 •eran poaadf 
 ad hair on the 
 the skin had 
 haoi with no 
 ting even! J la 
 ndj^pe attach- 
 re by the hand, 
 frontali imall, 
 sfore ItB death. 
 It wai atnuM- 
 
 ■tantlally oon- 
 }h was seonred 
 ik, one end of 
 ronnda deprea- 
 ist ha?e been 
 Dr. Thotbam 
 geatatlon, that 
 \e world allTe. 
 aid be effeotecj^ 
 lid, pnoh aa a 
 
 child came to 
 
 already noted, 
 It np to Agnea 
 fard In about a 
 lat ihe law the 
 that morning, 
 lid aay whether 
 day. After he 
 t oonld not find 
 «n WMt np, oa 
 )(Mri. Warren) 
 kont called tho 
 B. Thlawaiaa 
 
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 Hary BallUe ewore that ihe used to visit Agnes Marahall at Mr. Camer- 
 on's. One day she went there, Went Into svreral rooma, saw no person, 
 went Into Mr. Allan Cameron's room, and tiiere saw Agnes standing on the 
 floor In the room and the prisoner on the bed. He never opaiied his eyes. 
 She oonld not tell the itmo when this was. She only epoke to. Agnes on 
 that occasion, 
 
 Mrs. MoOanl swore Hiat on one occasion she heatd the prisoner tell Agnes 
 Marshall she would soon have to go— bnt he did not say why. She saw 
 the prisoner strike Agnes Marshall several times. Agnes said, «'yon can 
 do as yon like, I cannot help It," and she desired the prisoner's treatment of 
 her should not be told. Mrs. MoOanl saw prisoner strike Agnes on the head 
 and kick her. On one occasion the prisoner threw punch in her (Agnes') 
 faoe, and she cried. Lamont also swore that he had seen the prisoner 
 strike Agnes very often and she would cry, but never remonstrated -with 
 him. and he confirmed Mrs. McOaul's sta^ment as to the prisoner's throwing 
 ptinoh In Agnes' ftuje. Mrs. MoOa^l also deposed that the prisoner said 
 hi the hearing of herself and Agnes Marshall that Agnes had a child before, 
 and that It was bom on the 8th of March, 1862, and that Agnes was absent 
 ftom the witness' room, In which she and Agnes slept some three hours 
 that night. The witness said she herself remembered tbatoocaslon, and that 
 the prisoner came In after AgHM^hen.she was In bed, and told her to 
 keep a light burning all nlgl^Mhe witness only knew the date, or that 
 Agnes had a child at that tUxBoflKm the prisoner's statement. Soon after 
 ^t witness went to live at Mr. Cameron's the prisoner charged Agnes 
 »« with having a child by some other person." „ v h 
 
 Lamont also swore that he had heard theprlsoner say to Agnes Marsnau 
 she had a kid and would Soon have another. The prlsonersald this often. 
 
 Mrs. MoOaul further said she saw the prisoner one day go Into her 
 bedroom, when Agnes Marshall was putting up her hair, and he struck 
 Agnes. Lamont aaW it was cruel, when the prisoner said, " If you d«nt 
 take care I'll give you a peg " .._. ^ . 
 
 It was sworn that on the 2eth February the prisoner was fixing doors m 
 the house, and as Lamont thought, while Agnes was in the water-olom. 
 The prisoner could go to the nursery from the yard without going 
 through the kitchen. ' ^^^ _ ., 
 
 John King, who was a constable at that time, wai present at the finding 
 of the child's body, and kept part of the string that was about the chUd's 
 neek, and the string whl^ was attached to the brick and the child's neck. 
 He searched the house^ for tWlne corresponding to that so found, but 
 discovered none. On the 2l8t of October, 1863, his and Sergeant Major 
 Hastings searched the prlsdnei's box, the. key of %hlch had been In 
 possession of ohe or oth|r of them from thi time of the discovery of the 
 child's body. They were searching for receipts for rent, and th»y iwnd a 
 piece of twine which waa producid, and which did correspond with that 
 which was attached to the child's neek and thh brlok. The string was In a 
 small paper box which was In the prisoner's 4mnk. ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 James Abraham, the coachman at Mr. Cameron's, swora he hjd »P»«» 
 to the prisoner about his striking the girls, and the prisoner said he had got 
 ahead of "th«ft." Taking the whole conversation together It may ba 
 rt nn h t fiil t o wh o aihe wnA "thim",iw intended ^^ 
 Plon tlw first Ibnr questions I entertain no doubl IhaTevidence |Tf fT 
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 WM BimplyiQffiolent to go to tha jary,Jp eot&blifih that Agno3 Mushall wis 
 delivered of a child on the 20 th of Febraary , .1863 ; that the male ohU3 
 whose body was fonod In the ptlvy in the yajrd adjoining Mr. Oameron'8 
 house, was the ohild^f whloh Agnes Marshall was delivered ; that the child 
 WA8 bom alive, and that it came to its death by violence, or aa Dr. Thoibimi 
 ezpieised It, by design or fool play. 
 
 On tbp fich and iMt question the ovldenoe requires more carefol oon- 
 aideiation It is entfreJy citcnmetantfal, and at. first sight at least, may 
 snetAln either cf two conoltwions.-^tfaat Agues Marshall or that the prison- 
 er deprived the child of life. The piobabilUy that its death was the reaolt 
 of acoideKit was ezpiesfily submitted to the jury. Their verdict negatives 
 that ccnclmion, and I seenogronnd for efcylng they went against evidence 
 in 60 deciding. Nor do I question the scffioiency of the evidence to justify 
 the Jury in detexmi2;iDg that there was no person except the prisoner and 
 Agnes MarshaU to whom even a ecteploion could attnoh of beicg the perpe* 
 katqra of the criice. 
 
 If the only two oases pnteented on the indictment, and evidence were 
 'whether the priauner alonf or ^together Ivith Agnes Marshall committed the 
 teime, there is latay Qptoi&n no doubt that the evidence was suffioient 
 to go to the jury tosnstfdn a conviction of the prisoner, because In either 
 case he won]d be a principal felon. Bnt^^e evideoce will equally sustain 
 the conclusion that Agnes Marshall MBnurdered the child, then it is 
 wholly insuffiolent to convict the prisoAiBlta force as against the prlaon- 
 er is materially impaired. The possibiU^ and still more the probability 
 of the sole guilt of Agnes Marshall inevitably weakens the force of any 
 evidence involving such possibility or probability when offered to prove that 
 the prlfioneif was the guilty agent. 
 
 Ndveilhelegs it appears to me that aithough some parts of the evidence 
 did invdlve the posslbiiity, evdn probability abo^H stated, this is not a 
 sufficient reason in law for withdrawing it fiom the ocKisideiation of the j ory, 
 •a evidence against the prisoner,' for ic suggested conolueious of fac*; wtdch 
 varied attend inevitably to the piisonet's conviction. 
 
 There was evidence that he was alone with Agnes Marshall during some 
 portion of the interval of time within which she was delivered, and was 
 found prostrate on the nurst ry floor There, was not any evidence that she 
 left the boueo during that intexval, and the tendency of Lhe proof was to 
 show that 0>ie did not, and perhaps could not. She was from the time that 
 di^e took in Mrs. Cameron's breakfast suffering till she sank into extr^e 
 prostration, while he was in his ordinary health and strength: Her sub- 
 mliwlen to in&ult and llFtreatment from him shewed that he posseaied and 
 exercised great iafloence over her. Hia koowledge of her pregnancy and 
 aonteminor facta might, Uksn tog6ther,'well lead to a belief that he had a 
 otlmiaal intimacy with her, and if the jury ioclined to this belief, the 
 evidence that the former pregnancy •! this unhapi^F girl was asserted to 
 har face by the prisoner ; that be oame to her beddde ofl» nfgUt when, 
 aooording ta his o#h atotement, she was In that condition and gave har 
 some dtreotlons ; that Mrs. McOauI, with whom she slept at that time, 
 thought she obserrod after the night |n question a cluuige In her appearance 
 and tne prisonex's statement to Mrs. MeOaul "^of what happened on that 
 partlcPtor night, though h<> did not make any allnslon to tha fact that A ff naa ^ 
 ^iTifian hew^daivur^of a ohtld, mighFweiroonflrm Um« ta UTiidlhlt 
 
Marshall wii 
 10 male ohUd 
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 that the child 
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 carnal oon- 
 at least, may 
 lat the ptlBon- 
 was the reaolt 
 Hot negatives 
 risst evidence 
 isceto JoBtlfy 
 B prlBoner and 
 3g the perpe- 
 
 evidence were 
 ^mmltted the 
 •ras finffiolent 
 iQse In either 
 qtnally Euataln 
 Id, then It is 
 i«t the prlacm- 
 le ijNrobabllUy 
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 the time that 
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 ballef wonld sapply a Btrongmoti''b forttoommlfislonof the crime, while 
 theother foot shewed ha had theoppo»tnr>H;y to commit it. ^ 
 
 I thlolt these difFerent clronmatanciia bblag fonndby thejatyas snffiolont- 
 ly establiflhed did afford evl^'ecce of the piincipal propoaltlon that the 
 defendant committed the murdtr And I conolndQ therefore that there 
 was- evidence to be enbmltted to the jary Snffloleut to enable them to infer 
 hiagidlt. ' 
 
 Bat it is urged on bobalf of the prisoner that evan though there was 
 evidenoe which the leatned Judge who tried the prisoBer could not but flub- 
 mit to the jury, and although his fTirection is ih no respect complained of, "^ 
 it is the duty of the court on this rale to examine the evidenoe to see whether 
 they arrive at the same concloBlon as the jary have done, or in other worde 
 whether the Jary have matie right Inferences of fact, from the substantiil 
 evidenoe submitted to them. 
 
 la oases where there fs direct and positive evidence of the f»ct charged, 
 and that evWenoe is contradicted, it may be said that no queatlon, but the 
 oredibiilty of the witnesees, is preainted, and that aa ctedibiUty, and weight 
 of evidence are entirely questions fbrthe Jtiry, their xleolslon m»y well be 
 deetof!d finsl, unless the Judge who tried the case, should express hinwelf to 
 be <fl?sati»ted with the verdict, but that where the evide^ca fa merely olr- 
 
 - ' jioa whether the facts relied upon were 
 
 second whether the fact of guilt was 
 that In the latter dase, the court should 
 Itction of the jury. I do not feel the foioa 
 of the (IlfitlnoHon, nor do I eoe any BatlBfaciory roason for applying a 
 different rule. The jury h«ve In'olther case the same duty to potform- In the 
 latter a more different one ; but not the less their duty. Admitting that 
 •'thev must decide, wot whether there facts are consistent with the prlsoj^ei S 
 guilt, bn« whoth'ir ihey are Jn consistent with any other oonciuslon," when 
 they have S5 declti^ *-, U cert«,liily onnnot present a less obstacle to the iu 
 torfoTonoij of rbp ourt, thatx wh.MU they have simply decid dthat they give 
 credit to the wi- v.eaaes for ths proRRcution »hd not to thote for the defence. 
 The pte^«mt !h a o«ho of ohon Rtanttal evidenoe, and my learned brother 
 w^o ti led \t h?i'i «xproflSfcd no d'osmVla'sction with tho verdict. T do t.'it feel 
 that I ou^n ft cUTe It wrong. 
 
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 Mr. Ja8tlo«» a*ig»r5;y deUvJiTe'l thi» following jaigment:— 
 A V >ry close <'.x*mIn«»'»Ion of tbla case Isiads me to the cDocluflion that 
 thwte wa(je7ii1enoet<)g^ tofcbe jury i^ 8Uppr)rt of the crime oharg<?fMn 
 the Indictment. Dpslrtng to a^otd any expreasttm of opinion as t#the oon- 
 olOBlpns I might personally drairffom the ch«ln of f Acts proved, I »WjJ^ 
 there was reasonable ovidonoe that criminal ^awioiarse had probably 
 taken place between the \ prisoner -and Agnes Jfcrsball; tH* ■^•^••.'f* 
 liveredofachild on the aoth of Pebruary; that the body of the ohlld 
 . found in tho casspooi w«b the ohild bom on that day ; that it was born 
 alive, and came to ita do»tb hf foul play. - The main question Whejber 
 the prisonoT, under all kh*»clrcn'r> stances io evidenoe, was ImpU^tt-d to 
 tbo mardor of tble ch'ld, w«8 u. my juixmBat a niaf,t«r nep«n«atlly tc» be 
 left to and df cliled bV »he la-'v »nd by th*»m alone I thinlt it Impoafllblo 
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 the presiding Jndge oonld, either from his own view, or on eppliofttion 
 of prisoner's counsel, have held to be insufficient in a legal view to be inb- 
 mitted to the jory. 
 
 I have given the statute on wliioh the application for a new trial is 
 founded, and the cases that have arisen upon it, since its enactment, all the 
 consideration in my power ; and with a full sense of responsibility in the 
 ooustrnction I place upon It, have formed the opinion that I am not call- 
 ed upon to review such a chain of facts as this case presents for the pur- 
 pose of determining the conclusion to which they would lead my mind as to 
 the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, much less to compel me to state 
 what such conclusion (if any) may be. 
 
 I consider thatfl discharge my duty as a judge before whom it is sought 
 to obtain a new trial on the ground of the alleged weakness of the evidence 
 or of Its weights In either scale, in declaring my opinion that there was ^ 
 evidence proper to be submitted to the jury— that a number of material 
 facts and circumstances were legally proved before them— llnlis, as it 
 were, in a cfaain of circumstantial evidence, which it was their especial duty 
 and province to examine carefully— to test their weight and adaptability, 
 each to the other, and finally to decide if a chain so formed was drawn 
 80 firmly aad closely louhd the accused ja to exclude all reasonable doubt 
 
 of guui. m 
 
 To adopt any- other view of the lawf« rPbuld bo simply to transfer the 
 conclusion of every prisoner's guilt or innocence from the jory to the 
 Qdges 
 
 pases of purely circumstantial evidence form a very large proportion of 
 criminal trials. Crime generally works in secret, and the direct evidence 
 of witnesses to the actual commission of the offence is rtrely fbrthcom- 
 ,ing. A man is found lying murdered on the highway ; goods proved to 
 have been stolen ate found in a person's posBeeeion ] a house bursts into 
 flames at midnight. In all these cases no living eje saw the crime com- 
 mitted. Enquiry is commenced, and a number of circumstances present 
 themselves, seme of high importance, others apparently trivial, and at last 
 
 ? direct charge is brought against some indivldusl as the guilty person. 
 t is the province of tee judge to see that nothing is given in evidence 
 unleotf reasonably connected with the particular charge, etc., etc., and at the 
 close, of all that can be urged on behalf of the prosecution, if he sees clearly 
 that nothing beyond mera suspicion exists against the prisoner- nothing 
 in the well understood legal phrase << to go to the jury," I consider it his 
 dear duty so to rule. 
 
 But when the judge cannot or ought not to take the responsibility of thus 
 interposing, the facts in evidence must be submitted to the jury. They are 
 left with pxcpar esplsnation, and comment to the general judgment of 
 twelve minds vaiiously constituted, differing in activity and temperament, 
 and the proposition of guilt or^lnnocenoe mu^t be adopted by all with 
 reasonable certainty of conviction. 
 
 I do not think the Legislature designed to oompel us to review this de- 
 cision df^the jury so as to require it to be as satisfactory to cur minds as it 
 was to theirs, before it can be finally acted upon. 
 
 I have always considered that in all criminal cases, dlffertog as they must 
 
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 ;hat there wss 
 er of material' 
 i— links, as it 
 r eepeoial daty 
 1 adaptability, 
 edwaa drawn 
 leonable donbfc 
 
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 the jury to the 
 
 ) proportion of 
 lirect evidence 
 rely forthcom- 
 ods proved to 
 lee barsts into 
 he crime oom- 
 jfances present 
 al, and at last 
 guilty person, 
 en in evidence 
 etc., and at the 
 he sees clearly 
 ioner — nothihg 
 oonsidor it his 
 
 tsibility of thna 
 ary. They are 
 Ji jadgment of 
 temperament, 
 )dby all with 
 
 review this de- 
 inr minds as it 
 
 Bgaitheymnst 
 \B jury framed,' 
 lejadge in tho 
 
 the maintenance of a calm, well balanced and falthfally impartial intellect, 
 were the heayy task imposed np^ it, of drawing from series of facts and 
 olrcnmetancss the gnllt or Inne^ontce of a fellow being, as a matter of legal 
 palnfal duty of deciding on the existence of gnllt. It could hardly tend to 
 dedaotlon. It Is needless^ however, to enlarge npon the very palnfal aspect 
 of the gneetlon, as I do not think the statnte forces me so to view It. 
 
 I ami of opinion at toiUie statnte— 
 
 1st.— If we think Iii law and evidence that the case was snoh tliat the 
 judge, either in his own view or on application of the prisoner's counsel, 
 ibould properly say /there was no suffiolent case for the jury we should order 
 a new trial. 
 
 2nd.^If there be a sufficient case to go to the jury, the law throws on 
 them the responsibility of deciding, and we are not to assume their 
 
 functions. 
 
 3rd.— If the evidence, though sufficient to be submitted to a jury, be weak 
 and open to a conclusion ftivarable to the prisoner, then If the jury convict, 
 It rests with the executive to deal with the case. 
 
 4th.— I decline considering the case as depending on the view I might 
 take of the evidence If I had been on the jury, 
 
 I make no reaprk respooting the admlssablllty of matter arlstng or dis- 
 covered since tHteial u^der tiMistatute. This case does net caU for any 
 dedslon thereon. It is not ti^SKMted that on a seoond trial the fsota 
 would be established In any dlileient form. 
 
 I think the rule must be dls<^uucged. 
 
 JDDQKUT or KB. J08TI01 MOBUBOI. 
 
 Mr. Justice Morrison delivered the following judgment >» 
 
 I oononr in the views expreraed by the leumed Ohief Justice and my 
 brother Hagar;;y. 
 
 Upon the trial, at the close of the case tog the Orowut I thought there 
 was evidence to go to the jury ; and after the folleat and most anxlons oon- 
 aiden^an, I am stUl of the same opinion, I left the case to the jary in as 
 avorable a light as C could for the prisoner, and cannot say I am diasaHs- 
 fled with their verdict. 
 
 I am of opinion that the rule for a new trial should be discharged. 
 
 After the judgments had been given Mr. Bichards asked the court to add 
 to their decision that the sentence passed upon the laisoner be carried into 
 
 The Ohlef Justice replied that they would do lx>. 
 
 Mr M. 0. Oameron said that there was a provision in the aol which 
 enabled him to carry the esse up to the Court oflCsiior and Appeal, with 
 the consent, however, of two of the jadges in the OouHof Qaeen's Bench, 
 and he asked their Lordsbip^ whether ttiey wculd be pleased to grant a 
 motion to that effect, as he desired to hftve the decision of the nine jn^g^i 
 iti that hlgtter>»ottrt. 
 
 The Ohief Justice said that he did not think there was any use in taking 
 the case to the Oonrt of Error and Appeal, as he believed no person would 
 grant a new trial, if they lookod upon the evidence in the same light as 
 himself and hlf brother judges bad done. The bout, however, would retire 
 f o j ^ f ew minut e s to c on s ult upon Mr O w m f Tf^^' ff ^o^*"" i — A ^*^ r smalnlBg 
 out of court for about ten mlnut«f«|thetr Lordships returned, and the Ohlef 
 
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 JoBtice BtAlmthAt th«y biad IimI a ooofeienoe with the Judges of the 
 Oonxi of Oomnifon Pleas, and niat those learned gentlemen not/only 
 agreed with the jadgment already given, but were prepared to me even 
 stronger language In ibfaslng the rale for a new trial. And under these 
 oonbideratlons he saw no ground upon which Mr. Cameron's appeal could 
 could be gnnted. 
 
 Mr. . Oameron stated tbiit he Intended to apply to the Attorney-Glenexal 
 f6r a fidt to remove the case from the Oourt; of AsRfz.i i«toono of tt^e higher 
 courts, probably the Court of Common Pleas or the Oourt of Error and 
 Appeal. 
 
 With the above object In view, Mr, Oacavar, the attorney In the case, 
 was to start for Quebec ^hls morning. • 
 
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 THE LAST SCENES. 
 
 
 1^ The Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench having refused to grant a new 
 trial, there was but one resource left the counsel for the prisoner— an ap- 
 peal to the Executive. With this object in view Mr. Canavan proceeded to 
 Quebec, fortified with some letters whi6h the prisoner had written, a state- 
 ment in which he avowed with solemn emphasis, that he was hot guilty of the 
 crime for which he stood condemned, and a petition professedficj^tten by 
 the prisoner himself, and signed by a few citizens. On the ixm of Feb- 
 ruary Mr. Canavan left Toronto on his mission ; on Friday he obtained an 
 interview with the Premier of the government, and again on Saturday. 
 He presented his reasons and documents on behalf of the prisoner, earnest- 
 ly pressing for a commutation of the sentence under which he lay in jail, 
 and for which in a few days he would, it was then supposed, expiate his 
 guilt on the gallows. The Executive, through the Premier, replied to Mr. 
 Canavan that they could see no ground for setting aside the ver^ct of 
 the jury, nor even granting a writ to take the case into the Court of Error 
 and Appeal. Then Mr. Canavan had an audience with the Governor Gen- 
 eral, but with no better result. Finding that all was hopeless, he tele- 
 graphed to the prisoner that he must prepare for the worst, and left Quebec 
 on Saturday for Toronto. '^ 
 
 In the meantime the prisoner had some hope of a respite. So long as 
 judicial proceedings were carried on there was at least a shadow of hope 
 that the extreme penalty of the law might be averted. As a drowning 
 man catches at straws. Greenwood built his hope upon this slight founda- 
 tion. The result of the application for a new trial dashed this hope to the 
 ground, and subsequently he seems to have given up all idea that his life 
 would be spared. He did not, however, give way to extreme melancholy or 
 dejection. Not easily moved under any circumstances, he bore his wretched 
 &te with a large amount of fortitude. Not imtil a oay or two before the 
 time appointed for his execution did his health seem to give way in any 
 respect. He ate well, spoke firmly, and often cheerfully. The Rev. Mr. 
 _8aTiRon, minister of Trinity ChimJi (Episcopalian),, attended him con- 
 
 etantly and was most assiduous in pressing upon him the necessity of re- 
 
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fadges of ike 
 men not only 
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 d onder these 
 B appenl could 
 
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 ; of Error and 
 
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 to grant a new 
 isoner— an ap- 
 an proceeded to 
 vritten, a state- 
 lot guilty of the 
 edlk>ritten by 
 Xim of Feb- 
 be obtained an 
 1 on Saturday, 
 isoner, earnest- 
 he lay in jail, 
 3d, expiate his 
 , replied to Mr, 
 the verdict of 
 Court of Error 
 Governor Gen- 
 peless, he tele- 
 md left Quebec 
 
 be. So long as 
 ihadOw of hope 
 is a drowning 
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 his hope to the 
 lea that his life 
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 lecessity of re- 
 
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 pentauce, and a preparation for the life* to come, To those ministrations 
 Greenwood, though not entirely indifferent, did not pay such attention as 
 might have been expected from one in his position. Mr. Saiiso» stated at 
 the inquest, held subsequently, that he always doubted the mai^ sinicerity. 
 He had strong powers of deception. He feigned seriousffess whten he was 
 not the least affected. When speaking upon masters of etem,6(l moment, 
 he would suddenly ask trivial questions about the weather, or sbme other 
 frivolous, subject. He was evidently not impressed with the solemnity of 
 his gpsition. Of this Mr. Sanson felt fully convinced, and he. ought to be 
 a ^ood jiidge of human nature. 
 
 The dx^ution was appointed for Tuesday, at ten o'clock in the morning. , 
 The scaffold had been erected on Monday^ in the very sight of the prisoner. 
 He watched the progress which wag being made in the erection of the - 
 gallows. Was it at this time the thought came into his mind to take away , 
 
 'his life, and cheat the law and the executioner, and 'disappoint the • 
 crowds o^eople who would be certain to come to see him executed? NoJ 
 The papers found in his cell, after his death, show very plainly that he 
 had fof some time contemplated-flnldde. Self-destruction under such cir- 
 cumstances may be the result of cowardice; cf it may be the bold deter^ 
 mination to prevent the public from having the dread sotisfoction of seeing 
 him rushed off the stage of time into the unseen world, in the twinkling 
 jof a6feye ; or it may„be a desire to'lrtand well with his friends and the pub- 
 lic, fearlepB or unappreciative of the consequences which his rash act would 
 have on his eternal destiny. We do not think Greenwood was a coward* 
 There was a dash ofboldness in his cliaracter, <ae the nature of his crimes 
 8howed.,.lHe committed suicide, we think, rather from an unwillingileBS to 
 gratify ptlblio ctiriosity, than from cowardice. 
 
 But W/C are getting ahead of our narrative. On Monday night up to 
 near teri o'clock, Mr. Sanson remained with the prisoner in prayfer and con- 
 versation. He then left him, and the turnkey \*^ho had' charge of the cell 
 
 ' also went out to make preparations for the approaching execution. This 
 was the Opportunity which the wretched mftn desired. Seizing i long roller 
 towel, whicli it is supposed ho haid « smuggled" into the cell during thfe day- 
 tiia<*— for he was allowed to walk about the corridor for some hours every 
 day— he tied one ehd to ^ bar of his cell window, and making a noose on 
 the other, hanged himself most effectually. The scene presented by the 
 dreadful spectacle was thus described by the reporter of the The Leader 
 who visited the cell on Tuesday morning : — . " 
 
 " Upon entering the cell the Ix^y was found lying on the bftck, with tfie 
 feet toward the cell door. The mouth wafi partially open, and the right 
 nostril and right angle of the mouth -^ere covered with blood, which had 
 evidently spurted from both place? at the same time. The eyes were clossed, 
 /and the face, although pallid in death, was on the whole, considering the 
 violence of the fatal struggle, calm and collected looking, no contortion of 
 the features having been caused by the strangulation. The neck and throat 
 were partially discoloured, and immediately beneath the left under jaw an 
 abrasion of the skin was clearly apparent. The violent jerk must have 
 caused this mark on the throat. This was the only spot on the neck where 
 the akin was broken. 
 
 
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 inau was still ha^ang by ihe wall, the upper end being firmly tied around 
 one of the stiff iron bars in the window. Its lower en^ was not more than 
 eight inches from the bed, and immediately above it. This towel, or, more 
 properly, roller-towel, was two and an eighth yards in length, being then 
 doubled or uncut. Underneath this towel on the ledge of the window a 
 straw pillow was found, the prisoner evidently having placed it there to 
 give the towel a proper inclination. Having thus an:anged the towel tht3 
 prisoner formed a running nose at the «nd of it, and, placing it around his 
 neck he must have got upon his knees on the bed and either by pressing 
 against the wall or by a desperate jerk caused almost instant strangulation. 
 When found, the head was scarcely eight inches from the bed, and the feet 
 hanging a little over the edge of it. The backs of the iliands were slightly 
 marked with blood, indicating that he must have placed them to his mouth 
 while in the last agonies of death. A small quantity of blood was found on 
 the head of the bed,which had the appearance of having fallen from the mouth 
 and nose with a splash, or as if it Avere ^ast violently on the bed from a 
 vessel of some sort." 
 
 His siiicide seems to have disappointed many of the revolting feast they 
 expected to enjoy in witnessing his execution. Thousands of strangers 
 arrived in Toronto on the previous evening ; thousand more poured in from 
 the surrounding country on Tuesday morning, for the purpose of being 
 present at the execution ; and hundreds went to the jail as s«X)n as day 
 dawned, for the purpose of selecting good places. The gallfews had been 
 removed during the night, however, and on enquiring as to the cause, the 
 news of Greenwood's suicide became known, and sped like wild-flre. Many 
 at first treated it as a hoax, got up for the purpose of keeping people away 
 from the execution. Another theory was, that the prisoner had escaped 
 through the connivance of the turnkey, and that the dead body found in 
 his cell was not his, but one which had been placed there with the idea 
 that it would be taken as his. So strongly did this impression prevail on 
 the public mind, that it was judged advisablja to adjourn an inquest which 
 was being held upon the body, from 11 to 2 o'clock, and to convey the body 
 in the meantime to the dead house, so that people might satisfy themselv^ 
 as to its identity. It was accordingly put into a coffin provided by the re- 
 latives, and taken to the dead house, whither crowds of persons hastened 
 for the purpose of satisfying their curiosity. The inquest lasted three days, 
 but ended in eliciting nothing further as to the manner of his death, or 
 criminating any of the officers of the jail. ; 
 
 Thus ended the career of a man whose name is a household wor<J in 
 Canada not for the good associated with, but for the many crimes witlr 
 Avhich his name was associated. May his career be a warning to others. 
 
 : THE DOCUMENTS HE LEFT. 
 
 We Subjoin several of the dbcuments left behind him by Greenwood. 
 They all protest his innocence, more or less; but very few men—a few 
 women do— bel ieve t hem . W t > t i ht t tf pass ao judgment upon them Iioraf 
 they do not alter our opinion of the man, let others fwm iimt own judg- 
 ment with r. gard to ihcm. 
 
 t" *<■■ »r^ ■ 
 
 — 4y».. ,„. 
 
 ./• ; ,..-,. , 
 
 ..-^■. j*rf,.-,-«. (v ^ sw^.j^^y^JH 
 

 nly tied around 
 
 3 not more than 
 8 towel, or, more 
 jth, being then 
 )f the window a 
 »laced it there to 
 cd the towel the 
 ng it around his 
 ther by pressing 
 nt strangulation, 
 bed, and the feet 
 ds were slightly 
 em to his mouth 
 )od was found on 
 a from the mouth 
 the bed from a 
 
 olting feast they 
 ads of strangers 
 B poured in from 
 lurposo of being 
 as soon as day 
 alTows had been 
 
 the cause, the 
 
 1 wild-fire. Many 
 )iug people away 
 aer had escaped 
 1 body found in 
 re with the idea 
 ession prevail on 
 in inquest which 
 
 convey the body 
 atisfy themselvQp 
 vided by the re- 
 )ersons hastened 
 lasted three days, 
 r of his death, or 
 
 msehold wor(i in 
 lany crinies witlr 
 ling to others. 
 
 1 by Oreenwood. 
 few men — a few 
 upon them h e re ; 
 
 mmm 
 
 W^ 
 
 tJieir own judg- 
 
 -., y 
 
 I In addition to those documents, Greenwood left a letter to his father 
 dated January 28, 1864, in which he denies having murdered the" child of 
 Agnes Marslmll ; a lettqr from Greenwood's father to the prisoner, mclud- 
 ing a certificate from several persons at Long fteston, testifying to ^e 
 ■' honesty, sobriety and uniform good conduct" of Greenwood ; letters from 
 the prisoner to ^ Clark, of Saver Street, and Mr. Penty,-and old friend of 
 his which contain nothing of importance.] 
 
 .. aauawooD'^ obmirill btathowt 
 
 TOboiito Jaw., 17 th February, 1564 
 
 I WAS born in the village of Long Preaton, In the ooang of Yorkahire^ 
 TEnJimd twenty-sin yeara ago last old Ohiiatmaa day My father, John 
 S^Tto • giSl«B« ; ^" »^«^ " '^'^ ^**^ '*!'*»'* HamUton. at the 
 HrflSSd for t4 PM* thirty years. He married my mother, who was 
 tateriei^Sa o?^) same gentleman. I am the oldeBt of the family I 
 Skwoiie te^bSIftdflvo BlJterB, reelding in the same neighborhood as 
 mS^tter I St Bohool of my oim accord when abant ten yeara of age, and 
 ^ve be^n tuwl^iTmjBiAt^w since. I left jmy father and engaged 
 55S S^g^SJn wlli Mr.Holgate, who signed the petition as to my . 
 SaracLri lived with him one and a-half years. There was aftleod 
 2l Konired a man, and I engaged with him at *bo " W«»lf * ^'^^f *- 
 ttte- M?name la Dr. Leaoh ; I lived with him tiU he left for AnstraUa j 
 S ret^mm^ded me to Mr.Hemy BoberMoo, at Befc'Ia I thonght I. 
 wonldMke to have my ftither'a faAde of gardaner A genttemanoame at 
 toto ttme ftom Llveip<il to Mr. Holgate, named Mr. 8t«ton, a wine mer- 
 Swit • he Mved InHiraverly. He heard from Mr. Holgat., he sent for 
 «?to meet Mm I did so : he gave me half a sovereign to pay my hie 
 rslSSatlS new Liverpool I lived with htm till ho mo^ed to Magnle. 
 ^wSnld in {TServioe ?wo or three ,e«s. i^ "^^ed with •genttemjn 
 BuhMq^ntty in Mvorpool, named Langley. and then 1 conolnded to try 
 my Itntnne in Amerioa. '^m. 
 
 With some iMteen pounds Kngllsh money In my pocket I tt»o«85*.Jf 
 onnwtoid^ a flWng one to crowi the Atlantic I had aii^ged with • 
 ;55»g^named Boger 0«r, a gardener, t« aoaompany me. ^J^j^^T 
 !^ to my fether and mother, advUlng them of my »*f»tS^« ^^? 
 ^fftiSor replied that he w6nli like me to remain Would to Ood that I 
 SS wSThS^Svloe and thus saved Wm a broken heart Mr Stanton has 
 writtoa to Mr. Holgate, informlcg fcimof his entire eatlBiiotlon wlta my 
 jSt. «dmy fi^thVr ;as made aware of this, ne stated hie "Jf *»8jo„weil 
 SJawd to hear of my good conduct Mr. Stanton hadasmaU garden.^ I 
 ^toSSiAyselt as I Itought qualified to manage a larger <me, •tao ba»ng 
 K«i procuring nSre w.ges. J ^l^^^ ''^ ^^Tl^I^;^"^: 
 MxB, Stanton urged me to remain as het husband was al^ul PW^^^* • 
 Cwer aaiden and nremiaes at Magnle, near Liverpool She a^ted her In. 
 ffinfM^having m« paid the wages I desired. I remaiiied for a length 
 S^l wMT Sem aa their ga rdSer, alMagule, and receive d every kind. 
 ULrito^t£*gS*I«rtnattat5 Ma family ««dUMlj. ai n l ^was^ praseatod^ y 
 '^^mw^^^g with an exoelleat raoommondatlon and a sovereign 
 
 
i. 
 
 Jl'.Of. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 III 
 
 38 
 
 from one of i'ao f«uiiijr. )a.y fathot &t leagcbi couseated for cae to gp; he 
 wrote me a long letter, ezpieealug his constat wiflhea for my projj^HOtd, 
 and eveh urged me to avoid bad compac^y iKxxd to attend regolatly a plnoM of 
 woreblp, ba being a v<iry ploaa maj*, tne of the head »ingere In the congre- 
 gation where he worefatped ^. 
 
 A fe«r daya before I ealhid I reoeived • long letter from my father and 
 from ona ot my brothers. My pom mother and fil«terj wliAiftg me ev»ry 
 stJUcoeas in % strange conotry. 
 
 00 the 15-JH April, 1§5- t took a farewell of my friend Oatr, who ar- 
 ranged to leave wUh me bat baln^ compelled to give a monthly uotict) 
 where he was In Sdrvibe, and htd been for seven years, he deferred going, 
 asamiog me h^ would meet m«;*t Mr. Qowdy's, Spadina Avenne, Toronto. 
 My passage having been p*t(t I ooald not remain, so wtthont my friend I 
 ief « by the calling vessel, the >> Ha; vest Qieen."' 
 
 After a pt^sage of seven weeks and two dayi I tended in New Tork. I 
 remained in 17 w Tork 2 or 3 days and arriTed in Toronto on Satnhlay 
 nigh*, the 15 th April, hy the steamer Ztmmermaii. 
 
 T 'oand f rfend 0«rr ha 1 arrived and wai warilng at Bf r. Lailie'd nursery, 
 I. s'«r work log a fortnight for Mr. Plm, a ovpenter, engaged with Mr. 
 Leeiltf .1 rbmslnod in his servtoe fjr nboiit 2| years; my oimpttnlmi Oarr 
 left Mr. Leslie's ai^l proceeded to Hamilton, sfcer working with me 
 dnting the greater portl-.n of th*, nbava time ; a i that gentleman (Ifr. Les- 
 lie) Is well-kao'vn in Ji»i>ot;>, I a^id bat repir: him as to my coninot dor. 
 ing the time I remaiztt^d !a hU • cdVIoynenr. I am snre he will not speak 
 nnfavorahlyof me. > 
 
 1 left him and «ftHr, uu^•Mt>'1 «'<^i M'. J fha Seig «ick, a gardener, then 
 re^idtog lo RUer e»ra*t, <»%.» tr <rki'ii< with h'na a ont pix montbs, I 
 naked him and his wlf^ fur titmr uoneent to aanjr their only daoghter 
 OikMlokte, with their ooaH>«nt w« w r** mariitid on the 18 '.h of November hy 
 
 ,'the B«verend Hr S n^na p%<">r >>t iHtnlt? ohnreh. 
 
 My old frlaart, K m^r n%-x, c«m^ fmcn S«mU*ott 1^ he my grooatsmae. I 
 lived w th my fatbfT4o-la» for a lAOuth of 'Insi*, and was treated hy Mm 
 and my mother-ltt«iaw as ifTtcttonately as (heir own ohlld whom they 
 deatly loved. 
 
 Poor old man, he often lmpr«iss«i on my mind MMrt I had a food wife, 
 Mkd aeked metoh4 kind and i^l<:hfai *ft h^r atti to leke g lod oare of his 
 owa darling child in whom, he »ald, Ms heart wae, aa fsr as this wwld* 
 was oonoemed; and « have f^lt «htl my hearl wMld bi«ah whdi that poor 
 yonvg wife wonld call thra» ar four timet a week at my oe!>,tn» preepiratlon 
 '^Mrtvgdown ker fsoe, heavily laden withhaakete of food and oleaa olothea 
 for me ; poor Charlotte, poor wife, Oed l»fglTe ae for a^r falthlelHIigl lo 
 yon and yonrs. Atlar leaivtni my falkeMataw I lived U TorktUle Ijrom 
 Sfh April till t9 h Jio#, m* .gaM^nar foi Mr. Stell and Mr a Hiwtid and 
 oilMvs. I entered the wervloe of Mr aufyaed Oameron im the itsh Jnae 
 ltd IflMMdladaly moved iowe fbmltnre to a sm«U oiMage la the garden ; 
 tlw fbllowlBg Ootoher my poor little Sarah Anne, who ta now llvtog with 
 har mother the ll-.f chim my wff^ had, died fkam were tften living a« 
 
 ««^M)&fiiaa^ Agues !d»*tbal* 
 
 Oatfeaslae W*l«h 
 
 .JlmA'. 
 
 m^ijiaiM ! 
 
 miiJiiiiiMtiMiiiili 
 
r ate to gp. ; he 
 
 iMiy a plioH of 
 In tha ooagra* 
 
 AT f«t'her and 
 hl^g me ovary 
 
 Osrr, wbo &r- 
 onttiljr nottoi) 
 Bfarred golog, 
 nae, Toroato. 
 at my frtend I 
 
 S^BW York. I 
 » on SfttiiRlfty 
 
 iille'd narwry, 
 ged with Kr. 
 apKnlon Oftrr 
 log with mo 
 n»n (Dfr. Lea- 
 ooninst dor> 
 will not speak 
 
 •rdeoer^ then 
 Ix montbd, I 
 only daoghter 
 NoTember by 
 
 n>oaiiaiai». I 
 latad by Mm 
 
 ..^ ' i. >'-; 
 
 in food Wife, 
 I oare of hte 
 a« thia w»rld' 
 r^«l Mwlpoor 
 i» p-aapiraHon 
 ottMui okiUies 
 lthl«iniM» to 
 orkirUla from 
 I H<«w«rd tnd 
 to ttm Jttao 
 n MMgMdeD; 
 m IMag with 
 liM IMiff a* 
 
 ia Soploator, 
 
 39 
 
 1862, on a Sunday, 1 wm shaving in the upper kltohen, Mr and Mr*. 
 Cameron had joat gone out to chnroh. They were waited onto the door 
 by AgneB Marahall. She oame immedUtely down stairs and took up my 
 bruih and lathered the side of my faoe ; I was sitting with my raior in my 
 hand. I told her if she did not quit I would give her a good shaking; she 
 Bald I was not able $ I told her I would ehow her; she sald^he could kUl 
 me m a month. I Immediately pulled her, and she, I may say with no re- 
 luotanoe entered my bed-room. On thatoooaslon for the- first time In my 
 life, I had ponneotlon with her This famiUaiity ^m too often Indulged 
 in. BTery time she met me uhe would strike me in the stomach and tempt 
 me In eveiy way. She tried to Indnoe ihe to leave my wife and go wltb 
 her to the Btates This I refused to do, and I most truthfully asser* as « 
 man about to die on the soaflFold, that prior to September 1862 1 had no con>j-' 
 nootlon of an Improper kind with her. That I heard that she had ohlldiMtV 
 AbKiham tpld me and gtid they ware very bid characteri. 
 
 MAite hit ftolnftio Mrs McOotd'^ lOO a In March, as she spoke of at 
 Ihe tlat I have n"lt any recollection of it ; but I have often J0«e^P,;J*J 
 ^Id water to her bed room When she called ^*® ^J " ""Ji^*'^^^^ . 
 dxauk m bed. She has dragged me out of my bed while I wjiPr^^rZ 
 ni^ed In a ioke when she was under tbe inflaenoe of Hquor. Abdut three 
 ^SSSf^rllgnT- MaShaU had the child, for whoje de^h l^^^-^; 
 iy about to snfifer, she told me she wm in *»^%f»«»»^ '•J» *?J "i^If J"^ 
 wlabad to leave after a whUe as there wss plenty of time to give nn. 
 SSewnnX After Mr.. Cameron got better I advl^d her on«^ 
 liwe- she always sUted that I need not care, It would cost «• J^J" Jf • 
 ntS not trouble myself about It Oo the (fav .hew •■„«>»«*«^^'J" 
 SmecSwn irly, abouteight o'clock, and «ot a jag of weU r^^^^J^ 
 o^rimtar bottles She came over to me and oompleloed of feeMng ▼«fy 
 SfclKSght bSbre t^^^^ the night. I asked her what w^ th« ma««^ 
 ^ maUa no reply. She said Mrs. Oameron wanted to know If Abt^ 
 and riwlf would U through .awing the pile of wool that day. 1 an- 
 answered that we would have It finished about swelTO ^ ^ ^ 
 
 At la o'oiook Abrahams and myself left, M.aOrfeve. and Lamont ^J^ 
 to dline?.^ surely recollect It well About bsM-p-Mwelve we fl^ 
 dinner. AbShama got up lindww, going out oi f • ^•JJ^Tl iS^ 
 mont was getting up from lila ohair I »'««J*^»»*;^?"**'"i S a bE 
 the head ofthe stairs. Mrs Warren bring me a paU o*^?!" J^l-T 
 • tViIm Mr Ollvw the mevohMut for bran tad natfth* saoae waa ta- 
 LiSS iStuT«ii wasNwmpped In the bill; I took .t op «• I ^• 
 hl»: iT did to lay Omb on iha ball table for Mra Oamenm. 1 wa« Juat fc- 
 Si up he^kSS" from th. kUchen Mm ^treawa. coming np 
 iK S&U wt^ mU af water I halted and sahl, as you have not yet had 
 dto J??wm tilTp the p-1. I had not tko slljht«f «-J*22.*ll^Tr 
 LttSk^M whaTl w«it up to Iha hall, I did not se. M%mm ^}^^^ 
 
 fiom tha l*ad.f. I said wkatfstka matiait 8be.a*d I a«i #Jeb. iw 
 "^UmSSin^i Mra-Oa-ai^ 'J^J^J^^.^L''!!: T .WVaTr 
 
 llMi, fcfUlf»e»diliai 01 wa* 
 
 «! 
 
 :nar 
 
luf 
 
 40 
 
 the pall In the room Mid went to the pnap In the kitohan,got • glass of watet 
 and brought it to her, It then asked her Agnes do tell me what's the mat- 
 ter. She said I have had the child In the water closet. I will keep it there 
 till I feel able to get np. I will then take It ont. I have the kejr In my 
 pocket. I noticed blood on her boots partioalarljr. I still stood bant with 
 the glass of water In my hand, handed to her ; Miss Cameron oame In 
 and tried the water-olmet door, and finding it fiitened, she looked thiongh 
 the key>hole and said "Aggy, whit's the blood on the handle of the nob 
 in the water>cloaet Agnes said"neTer mind'the waterol08et,gotoyonc 
 own room np stairs If yon want to do anytliiog.'' After this Miss Oameron 
 asked what's the matti^r Aggy?' She answeried, I amsiok— MlssOtmeron 
 left the room. I looked through the key-hole and I saw the handle or nob ' 
 on the tide of the neat covered with blood, the Ud or cover was over 
 tte basin. As 1 oame from lookiogat thewater-olosetdoor, Isaid, "Amy 
 get that plaoe cleaned, for enrely some one will see It, t)be said, I will 
 ■ee it after awhile, and as I left Ltmont was pntting a stick in the stove. 
 I went down stairs to the yard to ^do my work, and remained gtaslng glaw 
 with Abraham's and Alexander all the afternoon. I heard i^es 
 ' wanted to see me. 0«tharlne Walsh told me, I believe. In the presence 
 of L. i^mont. After tea, I milked, fed the cows, looked the door sni attended 
 my Qsnal work, I pat on the ooat produced at my trial, and went np stairs, 
 having an Idea cf what she wanted, as I thooght she had not been ont her- 
 faU. I foQDd Agnes in the bed-room opposite Urs. Oameron's. Mrs. Oam- 
 eron was in her room ; the door was" shut, 1 bslleve she was in her bed Ul 
 with the measles, I ask el her what she wanted, sheiald the child was In 
 a tin dish In a clothes basket in the lower nursery, and wished me to take 
 It away, I went to the narseiy irery qatokly, I scarcely remained a second, 
 ■■ t wae afraid of beiag seen there, 1 foand the basket, I lifted Us lid and 
 t iok tbe ihh «iMi i|ent onttlde thn h nse, I th3u tov k ihe child oat of the 
 dish in my hands. I left the dish at the bad-room door and canted the 
 ohtld as I found It, wrapped up In the basket, and tied loosely a string 
 fastened to a part of a brick and let It drop down the bole, it was as told 
 as ice and felt soft withont bones, my Impression was that it was not foil 
 Rroffm, if it was I am not the father; if it was not full grown, perhaps 
 lam. 
 
 As to what hour It was born, a« io whether it was bom alive or daad^ I 
 know not. I did not murder it. I am satisfied It had been dead several 
 hourf . It was about half>past six when I took it out. I did not see Agnes 
 after for a fortnight I then was sent np stairs with Abrahams to remove a 
 bed ont of If aster Allen's ro«>m to the room she was in. When we got lUl 
 flsed, Abrahams went down Rtairs, I was left to put the Uihs and mat- 
 tress on, I iisked her how she f6lt, she said ahe had a fatating fit a w 3 
 'fays before I saw her. The Doctor had been attending her. Hbe said she 
 f(*lt very sick ; not a word was uttered by either of ns ibont the rhUdM.not 
 a breath ; the said •• I do not ImI the same as I felt before '• I said " I 
 sBppoae, Agoes, that Is no saw thing witli yon." Bhe said, •• Never mind 
 tt; If Idle there Is money enough In my hoc la bury ma with." A week 
 before Ae (Hed 1 was called to help bar Into Urn lower niuseryt down 
 ] I helped her tbvn ; she ooi^fciftwd sha wae aftald sha mn»H>miA 
 
 ■\ 
 
 Hy Mr OsiB»^ ■*• eidar I |0* a cii*«B«it Itii M tfamlri WKt m 
 
 Mft 
 
 
 »•' . . ^ ■■: • *^- 
 
 
 f«' 
 
;lM8 of water 
 lAt'B themtt- 
 keep it there 
 9 kef in my 
 lod bant with 
 ron oune In 
 iked thioagh 
 leofthe nob 
 etjgotoyonr 
 lira Oameton 
 flMOtmeron 
 andle or nob ' 
 'er WM over 
 [ said, "Aggy 
 le said, I will 
 In the atoTe. 
 I^laalng glass 
 leard Agnes 
 the presence 
 mi attended 
 It up stairs, 
 )een out her- 
 . Mrs. 0am- 
 n her bed Ui 
 ohild wasln 
 1 metoteka 
 ed a second, 
 idlttilid and 
 I oat oi the 
 carried the 
 lely astrtcg 
 t was as cold 
 was not foil 
 wn, perhaps 
 
 re or dead, I 
 lead ssTaral 
 lot see Agnes 
 to rsmorea 
 nwe got all 
 ht and mat- 
 Bg fit a or 3 
 Bhe said ihe 
 |vchUd«-not 
 W 1 tald " I 
 > Never siiad 
 h " A week 
 irsery^ down 
 haw«inl«.«ot 
 
 41 
 
 with her to the hospital'; not a word 7" ■I«*^en »bont the o^ld. Oatta- 
 jlne Walsh was with na. When we got into the hall of »« Ho^P****!^* 
 Gardiner said. "What's the matter?" She said she was tw>nWed wtth 
 piles. «I gness," said he, «• its fnnny pUes yon have been troubled wlft." 
 I helped her into Dr. Hoddei's ward ; I bade her good-bye and hoped that 
 she would soon be out. I did not again see her alive. I an satisfied ttat 
 she had children belbre, and was very loose In her morals, and I remnnber 
 when I went to Mr Cameron's she was very white and sickly ; to my know- 
 ledge she was almost every morning taking medicine. I never porohajed 
 any for her ; she used to go to the tanzy bed and have it boUed. I then 
 though she was taking it for an Improper purpose. 
 
 " (Slgiled,) WILLIAM GBEBHWOOD, 
 
 "17 Feb., 1864." 
 
 ' Oounterslgned 
 
 Thomas MoKswit. 
 
 OOaVSiBIOH as BIQABDS OATBniHl WAL«B. 
 
 I, William Greenwood, never rented a house from Mr. Mara tor Catherine 
 Walsh, if I did, surely I would not have given my name as William Green. 
 I never saw Mr. Mara till I saw him at the Inquest. I never called onMM. 
 Dookett for whitewashing, or for any purpose, in my life. I »«▼«« ^JJ 
 to her or her husband. I never had a peculiar tooth, and had my teeth 
 e|taaoted on account of d«o^^ Theevldence of Pearson about my teeth 
 vnu perfectly true. 
 
 With regard to my knowledge of Osthwlne Walsh's death, I have now to 
 
 lay. I never bad the slightest fsmlllarlty of an Improper nature with her 
 
 whUe she was at^r Oameron's. Th« first time that I had connection with 
 
 her was on an occasion when the asked me to go and take tea ^»» "•'• 
 
 I said I could not but would osll again— I was going to the city with a 
 
 lettte befbre Christmas; I think the Saturday belore; theseivanU told 
 
 me if t knew where she (Catherine) lived, I was to tell her to come up for 
 
 her Christmas dinner I went to her house to tell her so, and remained 
 
 about three quarters of an hour. She mixed me a glass of punch ; I lay on 
 
 tha bed with her after ; I never befbre had anything to do with her, but 1 
 
 always suspected her, and I was with her cilmlnaUy about three ttmes. 
 
 The first night she was in a hurry to get me away ; she said she had to go 
 
 out ; I was suspicious she expected soma one else ; I called subsequently 
 
 three or four times ; I never remained all night, or tor more than an hour 
 
 and sphalf, never altar eleven at night; IneverUft my^-room window 
 
 10 10 out at night, never ; I have come In that way, but tiever beforeiast 
 
 February. Oatherina left Mr, Oamerorfs on Sunday evening, the 1st of 
 
 Ajj^. I never nw her alive afterwards. . _^^^^ 
 
 On the night of the Uth of April I left Mr. Cameroa% jl ^i^ptl ste 
 o>oiook or thereabouts. I went down In the street <*" ***„^j^^ ""?•■; _jy 
 
 aiaotly 
 
 golofflipoka 
 
 SBaas, iw spuae smo mr 
 
 
 "1 
 
 ,•« 
 
 
 4. 
 
 
 
 ooUars I gave 
 
 herthalwo 
 
 ■1 larga as the pattern 
 
^ 
 
 m^i 
 
 ■^. 
 
 i*^ 
 
 thKA ti»y UDononeB; I wan*; up 8*yer street »a<* knocko<i ekt hex do^i I 
 got no aniiwet, I mw no light. I battled \mok on foot I had ao Idea, 
 At tbla time, erf letutblBK to Catherine Waleh'a vhat K^isht ; aftar going to 
 tbe plaoes sworn to by the wltneaiep, and nailing the ttn *in the rat holej 
 pUylng my concertina, I went to tea ; I woke up about ^wo o'clock, m 
 
 ■ mind dldtarbed, I folt confused ; I wev'fc„wlth my candle, ^m looked at the 
 dock In the lower kitchen. Aa the Are bolls were ringing I pu^ my coat on 
 and went out of the back door. I went down Qaaen street and up Styer 
 street I did not meet a ronl J t.hook the door, oouTcl n«j; get !n I went 
 round to the back door, I sbi? a light In Daoketi'a w1id({ow m the back of 
 the house. I never was In the yi^rd before. I wonder I did not fall In the 
 well. I caught my coat egalast a little trea or boBh I never was at the^ 
 backdoor beftore. I tried the (?oor, found IfcfAStened I then went and 
 looked In th© window of her room I o'n»d not see an?tMng there I 
 iookftd In the back kitchen window. I ttlwd It and fou jd It looae. Whan I 
 
 ^.trled It It was perfectly loos^ . I poked, about ; I got a Wt of SUok anC« 
 HUSoa *»> up. I got InaWe ; I called out OithaTtae ', I got no answer 5 are 
 
 ' ^ou there? No answer. The door of her bad room was lialf open. I 
 
 ' , iitucll>a matoh and lighted a oandlo 
 
 : ibSm 'fboJHMl at her. She was lyltfg 
 Mh%t on the floor. The side of her 
 
 jdgeSm 
 
 »#•; 
 
 4<» 
 
 V^ 
 
 l:ir } 
 
 I said, " O my Ga J—flhe'a deal." I 
 
 with oao band on the b'^d "^ad the 
 
 ohoHk was on the fl >or She natS In 
 
 \fJittle book. Her legs were In the Sod. She was l-^'og on 
 
 HbQ^edtfoFlHtted her on the bod. I felt much filghten^d. S!ii> was ciild and 
 
 •tiff <l!rtJ " iI««*o«»8ao ^^ ^^^^ ^ °^^^^ '^"■"y *"** ** '^^^ ^^^^ ^^"'^ 
 ipwt waft Wt^e fl«>'« The clothes appeared to have been pulled out with 
 Th5 bftd stood near the door. I saw ho <phild. I heard a noise In 
 e*Vd I put the candle down on tho flwr, betweeii the (Jpor and one 
 OTtwo^l from the bed. I did not place It ujjder the bed to set fl to It. 
 IhjknSo Intention whatever of firing the bed or premises ; It never entered 
 
 '^ni^tnd WhBU I he»rd the noise I wf«t out of tha ffon* d<>or. It was 
 ttOt locked I shook it whsn I tried to go lo and kdooked. Featlng she 
 Was Mleep I didn't force the door, but went to the back do«c^r. If the back 
 wtodow had been fastened I would not h*vo went In, bat whaa I pushed 
 the window It slipped In, apparently b^ing faatened with a cord. When I 
 
 'want out of the frpnt door, I boUevIng ihe nblp«) was In the bao^t part of 
 4he house I caught hold of the key ftod trlt»d to turd 11 r caught the 
 latch and lifted it. I went up on the 8«tu« wide, as h«r hoone I dW oot 
 cross the street I think I passed a narrow stFowt. 1 iookod buck, hn-^. 
 
 ever, when I got away from the house 
 
 I «aw spmB piraon g6ln .1 went 
 down Park Lane, up Qaeen street and never met a houI. I wont In Mr. 
 Cameron's baok door, as I come out. I know 1 am shortly to die a'.d I fray 
 1 know not how Oatharloe Walnh m«t h«r »<«ath I nev r murderefl any 
 one in my Ufd. i otv ir harboroi an? i.l"» of mnrdVir. Ood forWd. 
 
 WILLI iM OBEKNWOOD. 
 
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 t had no Idea, 
 
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 a the mt holej 
 roo'olook, iny 
 1 looked ftttbe 
 i^u': my ooftt on 
 I; and tip Biyer 
 gret in I went 
 In t.lie back of 
 DOt fall in the 
 ftvet was at tbe^ 
 hen went and 
 MDg there I 
 looae, Wiianl 
 ; of stluk hn^ 
 so answer; are 
 
 half open. I 
 fthe'a ^leai." I 
 e b*i "^ad the . 
 V She ia%i In 
 I was I'^'og on 
 Ui was ctM (Okd 
 he back rf her 
 pulled out with 
 3atd a noise in 
 le (i£>or tud ooo 
 feo set fl to It. 
 :t nevsT entered 
 ► d(H>!r. It wae 
 Feating the 
 >r. If the b»ck 
 when I puBhed 
 cord When I 
 the hao'i part of 
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 jurto 1 did cot 
 Rod buck, hiv- 
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 I wont in Mr. 
 to die a'-jd I uay 
 T tanrdetel any 
 »d forWd. 
 
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 GBBmWOOO TO OAMAYAV. , r 
 
 : ; ToBOMto Oaoii, Feb. 20th, 1864; 
 
 'Mt Di^ FmwD Mr. Oahatmi,— By th6 present opportnnlty that now 
 offers me to write yon a few lines to you as you hate been a friend to mo 
 from the first to the last. Sir, you hare been a brother to me elnoe my 
 trouble that it is my duty to write yon this letter as that Is all I oatn 
 reward yon for your kindness to me. Dew Bit, when Mr. M. O. Cameron 
 and yo^ was pleading the caie for me at the court yon was pleading for m 
 Innocent man of any murders. Sir, as I have told yon and others about my 
 past life has not beenvorse than others, not aoousing any one of any- 
 thing that Is wrong, I would not do It for a moment, Blr, as I was allowed 
 to fbli into temptation which, and all other men knows that we are all apt 
 to fall into these temptations if we have not the presence of God wUh ns. 
 and the only means by which we can be at all safe, namely, by oontinned 
 prayer. Dear Bir,:as to the character of Agnes Marshall and 0. Walsh, as I 
 thought was not good, and there is other men oonld tell yon that as veil 
 as me, if they like to do so, before I went to Mr. J. H. Cameron's servioe at 
 all Sir, I have seen things for myself that I was satlsfled of *helr con- 
 duct. I did not make free with O. Walsh as I dU with Agnes MarshaH, 
 as I told yon before. When Agnes Marshall tola me what was wrong, I 
 told her it would be better for her to leave the place before anything woud 
 happen at Mr. Cameron's and I was' told not to mind It as It would boi 
 cost me anything. Dear 8lr, there has been a great many enemies at my 
 trials against me, butJtwUl forglve-them aU j they done wrong, and I wIU 
 leave It to Gtod, Sir, the Bev. Mr. Bansdn has been coming every day to 
 see me, »nd he has given me good advice from the first to the last (if it Is 
 thus coming) ; and Mr. George Allen, the Governor of tho Gaol, has been 
 vjry kind to me ever since I have been In the gaol ; and the cffioers like- 
 wise—Mr. McKInney in partlculsr. Sir, you know that I will leave my dear 
 wife and one oh!ld. My wlfo and me always lived happy together. My 
 wife's mother has been very kind to ruo as well, and has tried all In her 
 power t6 get me free from this pi(to-<. I was in, and It was not In a 
 wrong base, and mfy the Almighty God reward them for It aU. I must not 
 tell you any more about them, as you know yourself as they have done 
 all they oan for me. Dear Sir, I will close these few lines to you and to 
 Mr. M. 0. Cameron, and hoping that your «onttnned prosperity and health- 
 fol condition, may the Almighty disposer of goodness for ever conHnne 
 to nph(rid you in all this conclusive to yonr comfort, both here and hMe- 
 after, and God bless you alli 
 
 I have told no one but yon and Mr. MoKenny of the 'matter, and good- 
 bye, my dear fr'.end. Yon can see my wife abwit the likeness, at I wttl toll 
 
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 Tdars, kc„ 
 
 WILLIAM GBKKNWOOD. 1 
 
 aaiBiw30D TO' OASivAi.'' ■ '^*'. .''"■■i- » ■ ■'■ 
 
 Xa. C4Li4VAi, DiA»« Bia,— That whloh 1 have told you about 0. Walsh * '""m'A^^ 
 
 that I ai« gnU ly of the muidai ' t m I 
 
 
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 have told you befei»^ lam notgnUty. Tho statement that J matfoio^^ 
 
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jca abott the mattei mutt not lead yon to belleTe ttat I am 8?»1^<^ ™- 
 der. I told yon just as I fcrand her, rinoe the 6th oj April, at Mr. Owwwon a 
 STiIm at night. The reat»n I weAt ont that.^8^* .r^.i^Ti^S ^oJ 
 belli were rnng. A« I went down the lane, I Ijot ^ thp street J I f « J»o* 
 gee any flre. The bells at that time had done staging, and smnetUng came 
 into my mind to go to see Catherine Walsh's house at JJ%* «^. « "gj* ' 
 I was not m the house three minutes before I left It; I to* no^g 
 there, and fetched nothing out. That stick must have *»«n thereilve yr 
 sIx^B £fore that timl, *nd 1 did not know at that time that a ohUd 
 was born in the house, till after. , The clothes in «{« J?^!^ ,^f {Jji ^SJ 
 the room ; when I went into the room, there was a Ughtta the black mwis 
 )umBe St that time. I went right up the street on tke left hand ; I ffld 
 m run : I left the csndleBtlck just behind the door; I «?»<>* >«fP 2? 
 of the window; I got homebefore the fir ) bells rimgatj^ttelMtttnj, 
 and was in bed : I wish I had left the woman In the place I found her 
 and told the police myself of the matter, but it is too !•* J.'JSJvJSl. 2fl 
 friend, as I aiTlnnooent of the^murder, I did not see any hloojf »bout the 
 woman at the time : and if that blood on my coat ooireeponds wlOi the 
 blood on Catherine Walsh, I am confident lt.<JW »»' <»"J%*'5J! ^'LTt 
 I «old you that I did not knock out the tooth, aS it was said I dW ; but I 
 told Abrahams and the butter, at the table, that I did so ; it was ou^for a 
 joke that I did it. Bhe told me to pull it out and I did eo N^. ff • 
 Oanayan. as a dying man. this Is the truth^that I ^▼'^ ^^.f ''J^ •".^.f "^^ 
 aU I know about the woman at her deatti. 1 cannot t^U you that I am 
 guilty of murder ; I have told you all that iknow. 
 
 WILLIAM GBBBNWOOD. 
 
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 TcBOJiTO GA'oti Feb. 1864, 
 
 Mt blAB FaTHIB AMD MOTHIB, 
 
 i received your kind letter and was glad ^3 hear from »■ «'*w'S!Mn2? 
 fon on the 9th February, and I received a character from Mr. H.Boblnson, 
 Of Settle, on the same day. Dear Father, I wrote a leWcr «oyouoa toe 
 asth- January, 1864, telling you the present situation I now stand In for 
 Se mrSSr of a child. This child w« supposed to be bom on the 20to 
 efl February, 1868, at the Hon. John H.Osmeron's. where I was gaij«« 
 alee years It lUs said Uiat I was with thla woman when she had the 
 child, m the room where this woman was In, anrf thij I knew ;he hadth^ 
 . Z\d that day, and that I murdered the o*^"*^ ^hen It wm f el^«'^^» 
 the woman. Dear Father, I tell you from my own »?■ th** I J*i »o»JJ 
 to do with this woman when she had the ohUd, nor did I know whether 
 Se oSd WM born alive or dead. Dear Father, do not «o ^ ywr bj^ at 
 night and think that yon have a son a murderer ; oh, don^ {" ■*H^Id 
 tUnk of Itfor I teU you Uiat I am Innocent of any murder that J •» o^wged 
 wi th, of y on a g o r oW Tf that ohU d was boin alive, the mother has mur- 
 Sil!d U heiSSS .o •oLnier gum of baTltg the child ^^f^^^^^ 
 ties luKl told' Mr. Oaswron of their suspicions at the time the woman was 
 
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 goUty of mar- 
 Mr. Oftmeron's 
 ioaiuethe fire- 
 iet\ I did not 
 ometUngcuae 
 time at night; 
 [took nothing 
 en there-Jive or 
 me that a child 
 were all rovnd 
 bhe blaok man's 
 t hand ; I did 
 id not leap oat 
 11 the laat timoy 
 Aoe Itbondher 
 e now, my dear 
 blood about the 
 ipondB with the 
 ne there by me. 
 d I did ; but I 
 t was oul/ for a 
 [ CO. Now, Mr. 
 yon, and that la 
 I yon that I am 
 
 litWOOD. 
 
 l'oii, Feb. 1864. 
 
 R contents from 
 Mr. H.&obinion, 
 er to yon on the 
 low stand In for 
 )0in on the aoth 
 a I was gaiaener 
 ben she had the 
 knew ehe had th^a 
 M delWered from 
 at I had nothing 
 I I know whether 
 go to yonr bed at 
 mt fbratnomant 
 ;liat I am charged 
 > mother has « ar» 
 
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 e the woman was 
 
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 ■iok. M thiy had told it I would hare had afdUfefent »«**« toy*** *^ 
 ^ tv§ and that w<iuld haw cleared my innooenoe of the tnadma, 
 tS iJSimSedln the hospital, on Uie aoth of Maroh-a »MmJb after she 
 zSfvk^^id When the woman was not there to answer for h^ own 
 JSiXfiitr Bhe^ d^TSose parties most tell the poUce of the ma*. 
 
 Uliwm^^i this iroman that I was tried for and got acqoitod rt tt« 
 mSdS^^ woman moidered, M it Is srtd she was, ttere is a blaok 
 
 SSd^SSSi oJer iome p«ioh's hid to ^^^ 
 
 u^wi^^MMT what it mw. I »» conHdent of that which I hare written 
 .^ISSfflstilM^^ I hate been dfwrgi^d wlttu IJereta^ 
 I^A m .nUtMBBv enemies against jne at my tilala, bat .there is one th^ 
 k^lTttSSfiSSSls^ln^Moh "**»^,^J"^i*? 
 
 aS!Z, Mwud&em for it in what ttiey hare done wrong Dear Father, I 
 Si^Sttdl wn «y more aboat L matter,as yon will read It fbr yem- 
 ^iSStMiwlkly Uadtr with "T^^ *». ^« /SiTntJ i^t 
 SSnk IhltSl jSn hea. In the paper Is true •g^»-*»^J*'J ^ J^^Vi' 
 •fT^naT Deac Father.— An Innpoent man can be sent to the gutows 
 ^^uSTlim^hlM enSs against him. l^^^^^^^^ 
 
 ^.fJi^S^Z ST. laTthirS^^to ^otaSrc 
 
 SE^HsJ^thS::^^^^ 
 
 J2SS Sr if SS in wSloh I tare written to yoa^ If It ta OodJ 
 SS ttat I Bhonld die the death of which sentence is passwinpon me, my 
 
 Sue SbutSort in this world.and I hope I wilL*^.T*L?JT' ^^ ^ 
 Sihty Ctod when he calls me to his right hu^d «« ^» J"«|:;' i^^. 
 wSldtooome. I' am making my prayers known to Ood, the^ymju»>, 
 SnrMoh we okn be aUll safe, namel|, by oonttnned prayers. D«w'*«J«. 
 I llJe mr wlie and one chUd after^me, but I hope to meet tl^m h»a 
 betS i^ld hcSfter than this they "now st«id Id, «dm.yGodb>j. 
 fthl« ihaVe not told yon any more about them, ai I told you In may 
 J^JtL* htfaM asthef lite done all their beet for me, and aUmf 
 
 SfiSl n£J^£"hXr^.M^ov^ fou wiu .end my J-'" r".h"2t*l 
 Mimdl MidthanklDatheri f«thelr klndnesi to me for that sheet Tit 
 
 SSSLm andforllhe character he sent me, and I hope to meet them aU. 
 in^l^ltter Jrorlf Dear Father and Mother, I will oI<»e these few 
 if-« ^m^n .«dtoallmysiste.s and brother, and to all mother's h|»then 
 ^JS^^;:^liS^^^^'i^r.^ Mother. Jfi-J^J^' ^' J^J^J.^^ 
 •TyoStathii iorld,and hoping to meet you ^11 at ^^••'l^^ Jf«^ 
 God to tte world to come, 1 beg to addreae to you In ;j« J^JPJ "<™*; 
 tag 3K«»Ulatt»« eDjoyment<»f evry blMSlng, and with sincere lore to 
 
 '^ ' Your affectionate SOD, ' .' ■ , 
 
 WIliLIAJC O&EBNWOOD. 
 
 
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 •« Gii(TLUin.-.I h«Te nb <^tt1t)t ydtir iftWe^ h%1r« tteen agifiat riier M 
 these ohargaa I was tried. Lat ma tall jfou, gentlemen, If I had bee^ 
 Picked up on the street wdtoken Into the b«ttl6.fi9ld to fignt Jtor my 
 oonntry, I would have been happy to do it, and would have ««« o» JJJ 
 field like a man ought to do for hla country, and I have no doubt I wcmlff 
 have proved mysslf a better jpan than some of these genUemen ^<^ 
 Agaihstme. Qentlemen, you might as well have taken amanftomthe Kea 
 Elver as taken me for these murders They could tell you JoSt as much as l 
 can about them. As how the woman and her child came folhelr death i 
 do not know. I am telling you the truth ; and for the chUd I »;.8W« *» 
 die. I do not know whether the child was bora dead or alive. Qentlemon, I 
 have been put in prison an innocent man of any Borders, young wjj. 
 The G^Zoie newspaper hag been a great deal against^ me ^ my en<^g. 
 lata ready to leave you aU andlwUl meetmyaod fiee of any murd^ 
 and 1 wiU be lost as high as those that sent me Into afeloft'8 giate. 
 0»ntlemen, if you do not find tfease dreadful crimes out before you fcatj 
 this world you will in thenar there li nothing hidden there. Y«i 
 then will find I am inoooent of murders. G«iitremen, If I was giiQif « 
 murders I would teU you beiore I leave tUs world, as it would be my dJV 
 Jo do so, so as not to lewre guUt on others. Oenttemen^ I was to m 
 vou that Iwas guUty of murdersi would teU you wrong, y!*" *"»«■ »W 
 irat found at Catherine Walsh's hotwe leads you to «»»ak^;* J[j^^ 
 murderer of Oathatine Walsh. You wlU thli* ^yig. H I Wve bjgl 
 ;gu!lly of other things which I ought not to have dope I did JJ^^^f • 
 ine world may say what II may when I am de|d and gone. ,J*»J»,;*»;; 
 nothing more than otner men might have done, as I w*s allowed to do 
 wronT I have siUd to the prlBonets in the wing that I wottld MVer go to 
 theSffoldan innocent man. I told them if I was fodnd gjUt^of any 
 murder that 1 was charged with I would not go over that wjUl •^^^Jj^ 
 not guUt? of murder, l-know nothing of a child being thrown over Mrs, 
 Inning's lot I have told all that I have done wrmig, and what I saw, * 
 cannot tell you any more, as I do not know it Oood by to you au. 
 
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