Alderman Waithman had seen both the Sheriffs and the Under-Sheriff, and the latter had declared his most positive conviction, that these men had told every thing they knew in the confession, which he (the Under-Sheriff) had witnessed. He (Mr. Alderman Waithman) was, therefore, astonished to see the statements that had been circulated in the newspapers.
Mr. Hunt rejoined, that it was asserted that the confession was made to the Ordinary of Newgate. Now it did not appear that either the Right Honourable Secretary for the Home Department, or the worthy Alderman, had any communication with the Ordinary.
Mr. Lamb had intended to give a satisfactory reply. No communication had been forwarded to Government with respect to the confession in question, and in a matter of that importance, had there been ground for such a communication, it would undoubtedly have been made.
Alderman Waithman had communicated with the Ordinary, but had heard of no confession of the kind referred to.
We cannot close the subject of the murder of the Italian boy more appropriately than with the following lines, written by F. W. N. Bayley:—
Poor child of Venice! He had left
A land of love and sun for this;
In one brief day of tears bereft,
Of father's care and mother's kiss!
The valleys of his native home,