Frances Coats proceedingsdefend , of St. Andrews Holbourn , was indicted for the Murder of Thomas Baker proceedingsvictim , an Infant of about 6 Years of Age , by giving him a Mortal Bruise on the hinder part of his Head with a piece of Brick, on the 31st of May , of which he languished till the 13th of June and then died . She was indicted also a second time on the Coroners Inquest for the same. Daniel Ray < no role > deposed, that he being at work in Baldwins Gardens , where there were 3 Boys (the Deceased one of them) at play, the Prisoner look'd out of a Window up two pair of Stairs and told them. If they did not go away, she would throw a Brickbat down and beat their Brains out, that he saw the Prisoner with a piece of Brick wavering in her Hand. and saw it fly off the Head of the Child, and the Blood spin cut three several ways. A Woman deposed, that she asking the Prisoner how she could be so barbarous, she answered, that the Child was not dead yet, but wisht she had kill'd him; and that she confest it before the Justice. Sarah Baker < no role > deposed, that her Son (the Deceased) came to her bloody, and said that the Prisoner had done it, that she had kill'd him and desired her to prosecute her; and that she confest it before the Justice. The Surgeon who had the cure of the Child in St. Bartholomew's Hospital deposed, that the Wound was the occasion of his Death. The Jury considering the matter, found her Guilty of Manslaughter . Burnt in the Hand .