The important results of an elaborate investigation into the mysterious case of Elizabeth Fenning: being a detail of extraordinary facts discovered since her execution, including the official report of her singular trial, now first published, and copious notes thereon. : Also, numerous authentic documents; an argument on her case; a memorial to H.R.H. the Prince Regent; & strictures on a late pamphlet of the prosecutors' apothecary / by John Watkins, LL.D. ; With thirty original letters, written by the unfortunate girl while in prison; an appendix, and an appropriate dedication.

  • Watkins, John, active 1792-1831.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The important results of an elaborate investigation into the mysterious case of Elizabeth Fenning: being a detail of extraordinary facts discovered since her execution, including the official report of her singular trial, now first published, and copious notes thereon. : Also, numerous authentic documents; an argument on her case; a memorial to H.R.H. the Prince Regent; & strictures on a late pamphlet of the prosecutors' apothecary / by John Watkins, LL.D. ; With thirty original letters, written by the unfortunate girl while in prison; an appendix, and an appropriate dedication. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    42. Q. On Tuesday, the 21st day of March, were you at your son’s house in Chancery Lane ? A. I was; I dined there. 43. Q. Your dinner consisted of yeast dumplings, beef steaks, and potatoes ? A. It did. 44. Q. After some time, did Mrs. Turner leave the room indisposed ? A. She did, sir. 45. Q. After she was gone up stairs you did not know that she was ill ? A. Not at the time that she left the room. pot-house parlance; but it ill suited the awful solemnities of a court of criminal justice, silting on a trial for the life or death of a human being. The answer either indicated great levity, a sport- ing with the sacred considerations of an oath, as odious and dis- gusting as it was unfeeling, or it was a most strict, an extraordi- narily strict attention to the nature and obligations of the most awful appeal to the Almighty in the power of man to make ! [In the SESSIONS’ PAPER REPORT, Mr. Turner is made to swear positively that he is his Son’s Father—the Answer to the question is, as there reported, “ YES.”—Why was he there made to PLUMP his Answer if he really swore CAUTIOUSLY ?] Q. 44. Mr. Orlibar Turner appears to have deposed to the'm- disposition of Mrs. C. Turner on leaving the room, and after her being up stairs, without having just then that strict view of the question and the oath which it is presumed he had, when he a minute before swore only as to his belief of his being the father of his own son. Mrs. C. Turner swears (Q. 35.) that she found her husband and father sick and ill, without saying where they met; nor does Mr. O. Turner’s evidence at all state where the meeting took place, nor whether she sought them, or they her. Q. 45. Mrs. C. Turner helped her husband and his father to “ some dumplings,” of course before she helped herself to the “ small piece,” “ not a quarter of a dumpling,” which occasioned lier to leave the table a few minutes after she had eaten it. Not- withstanding, however, that Mr. O. Turner and his son ate so much more of these dumplings than Mrs. C. Turner, and ate be- fore she began her dinner at all, they were not taken ill until some time after she had retired, nor until some time after they had themselves finished dinner. (See Q. 95.)