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 ... strictures on a late pamphlet of the prosecutor's apothecary [J. Marshall] ... With ... letters, written by the unfortunate girl while in prison / ... By John Watkins.

Date:: 1815

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 ... strictures on a late pamphlet of the prosecutor's apothecary [J. Marshall] ... With ... letters, written by the unfortunate girl while in prison / ... By John Watkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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I ' , . ^ 40. Q. The prisoner herself was taken very ill, was not she ? A. I have heard so. ORLIBAR TURNER Sworn. 41. Q. You are the father of Mr. Robert Gregson ? A. I believe I am. The words printed in Italics in the above Copy of the Coal Meters’ Ticket, are written with ink in the original. Q. 40. Mrs. C. Turner, when asked if the prisoner herself was riot taken very ill, answers, “ I have heard so/7 A most curious answer from such a witness as Mrs. Charlotte Turner, who could swear positively in two instances as to what was going on in the kitch¬ en whilst she was up stairs, when those answers tended to criminate the prisoner; but now, when a positive answer would have been favourable to the unhappy girl at the bar, Mrs. C. Turner can only say, “ I have heard so.’7 To be sure, she does not swear that she did not know so ; but if she did know so, she did not give the prisoner the benefit of her knowledge when she was asked if she did know : and it is not easy to conceive, without Mrs. Turners explanation, how she could have avoided knowing, as well as hearing, that the prisoner was ill; was, in fact, as ill as the Q. 37 to 40. [In the SESSIONS7 PAPER REPORT these Questions and Answers, being the whole of Mrs. Turner’s c ross-ex a m in ation, and including the remarkable Inquiry respect¬ ing the COALS, are entirely OMITTED.—The whole of SARAH PEER’S cross-examination, including her CORRO¬ BORATIVE TESTIMONY of Mrs. Turnefs Evidence as to the COALS, is also OMITTED in the SESSIONS’ PAPER RE¬ PORT. (SeeQ. 110, &c.)] Q. 41. The first question Mr. Orlibar Turner is asked is, if he is the father of Mr. Robert Gregson Turner ? and he answers, “ 1 believe 1 am/7 A most remarkable answer of a prosecutor on the trial of a prisoner arraigned at his instance on a charge of attempting to murder him and his son, another prosecutor, the object of the question. It is often said, that it is a wise child who knows his own father; but here Mr. Orlibar Turner does not pre* tend to the knowledge of his reputed son being his own child ! It might have been a drolling according to the dull pleasantries of

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