Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

26th February 1724

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Mary Morgan proceedingsdefend This name instance is in set 851. This set is in the group(s): MothersOBP . , of the Parish of Islington , was indicted for the Murther of her Child . She was also indicted on the coroner's Inquest for the same. It appear'd by the Evidence, That the Prisoner was Servant at the Red Lion at Holloway ; that being with Child, and tax'd with it, she deny'd it, although she had a Husband, but afterwards own'd it before her Delivery, and being deliver'd privately, afterwards said it was over now, for she had miscarried, but being constrained to tell where the Child was, it was found buried in a Garden, and had two Stabs in the Belly of it, when taken up. A Midwife depos'd, It was a Child at its full Time. The Prisoner said, she wanted three Months of her Time, and that it was born dead: But one Evidence depos'd, She had own'd it was born alive. But giving no Account how it came by the two Stabs in the Belly, one of which was depos'd to be such an one that the Bowels came out, the Jury found her guilty upon both Indictments. Death .




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