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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-09 00:00:00

turbed ; his arms folded, after his accustomed manner of
lying when asleep, over the bed clothes, but with a wound
upon his right cheek which was blackened all over with the
powder from the discharge, and entirely dead. The
prisoner did not touch him. He locked at the dead man
and said, " come on out, my father's killed." They went
away and no search was made by any of them in the room
to see whether any property had been taken—whether
any weapon had been left—or anything by which they
could judge from the condition of things in the room,
how or by whom this crime had been committed. I was
wrong in stating that his mother joined them, for from his
father's room he first 'Jena to his mother's bedroom and
told her that his father was killed. They went down
stairs, and whilst there gave to his brother Thomas
the gun which during all this time he had in his
own hands, and by the prisoner's directions
Thomas went to the back door and fired off
both the barrels one after the other, into the air The
next thing which the prisoner did was to take the two
Irishmen into the sitting room, and to point out to them
a small leathern desk lying on the table. He said it was
where his money had been, and that £l4 lOs in gold had '
been taken from it by the robbers. Now I am not aware
that any of the party up to that moment had been at all
in the room. Well, then, the prisoner told the Irishmen '
to go and dress themselves. They did so, and returned.
The prisoner then told Dillon and his brother Thomas
to go for the police, whilst he and Mal'cknay remained
in the house. This would be about half past two to three ,
o'clock. The prisoner and Malocknay went into the
kitchen, where they sat down together. After about five or
six minutes, the prisoner said, " Come, Michael, we will go
and look at your door." Now, I pray your attention to
these minute details, because I believe you will find every
one of these material to the consideration of the case.
They went accordingly to the granary door, the prisoner
taking a light, and leading the way. Malocknay was
about to open the door when the prisoner said—" Oh
Michael, lock at this bit of wood"—showing him a piece
of wood in the shape of a wedge, which was thrust in the
latch of the door; and by whomsoever it had been placed
there, it was obviously thrust in there for the purpose of
preventing the immediate egress of the parties who were
in the room. But it appears that the latch was very hard
to get down to the bottom, and that the wedge that had
bean fitted in had had no effect. Accordingly, you find
that when these men ware summoned they came at once,
but no doubt it had been anticipated that they would be
detained by a wedge keeping the door fast. Maloeknay
replied, " Oh James, what has put this here ?" and
the prisoner rejoined, '.That's a piece of wood put in
there to keep you in." He left it there. They returned
to the kitchen, and there they sat down together. After
they had been there a short time, the prisoner said
to Malocknay, "Come into the back kitchen, while I go to
look about the hedges and ditches in the neighbourhood."
The time was about three o'clock in the morning; the
moon had gone down a d it was perfectly dark. The
prisoner went out alone ; he had no light ; he took no
weapon of any kind. Lie was absent nearly half an hour
when he came back and desired Malocknay to go up stairs
with him. They went into the prisoner's own bed room.
The prisoner went to a drawer or box, from which he
took out some papers, and put them in his pocket. They
went down again to the kitchen to the fire, when the
prisoner took out the papers from his pocket and put
them into the fire. And, indeed, so determined was
he that they should be entirely burnt, that, one piece
having fallen out, the prisoner picked it up off the
hearth, and thrust it back again into the fire. The
prisoner and Malocknay sat there until Thomas
Henderson and Dillon returned. And now, then, I must
take you to what occurred after the return of Thomas, and
after the arrival of the police. Mr. Andrews, the super-
intendent of the constabulary of the Stockport division of
this 'county, got information from Thomas and Dillon, in
Stockport, between three and four o'clock in the morning,
and he at once proceeded to the house. He saw the
prisoner and his brother Thomas the e. The mother and
daughters were not seen, by him, for it seems that after

room, because a few days previously my father had
had a sale of cattle, and the auctioneer said there were
many rough characters about, and having given
the money which had been taken for the cattle
to my father, and it being known in the neighbour-
hood, the auctioneer thought men might lay siege to
the house at night." I believe it will appear in the
course of the case that during the sale some vague
remarks were made by some one that it was
not at all improbable that rough characters might take
advantage of the opportunity and r.do the house ; whether
that was the case, and persons did upon this occasion rob
the house, or whether that suggested to the person who
committed this crime the opportunity of trumping up
this story, you are to decide. The prisoner said, " I
loaded both barrels of my gun, but on Saturday morning,
observing a few birds in a tree in the garden, I fired att
them, and brought one down. After this I put the gun
down in the corner of my bedroom, and this morning,
about two o'clock, I went to my bedroom door and I
saw a light. I observed a man near six feet high, *and
immediately I brought my gun to my shoulder and fired.
The shot struck him in the lower part of his right cheek,
and when he got the shot ho gave a load shriek, and then
observed two persons ge down the stairs. They had
been in the cellar, and left the top of the ale cask running."
Mr. Walker, upon hearing this statement, and for other
reasons, was immediately struck with suspicion, and he
said, " Now, sir, rest assured this murder will be found
out, if man cannot, God will." Mr. Walker then referred
to the case of Manning and Rush, and added, "Horrid
murders cannot escape " Upon hearing that the psi-
sener gave a start, and without one word in reply, get up
and left the place with his companion. Now r will take
you back to the most material and important part
in this case, the search made by the Police at the
farm house. Mr: Andrews after making a general and
cursory examination of the whole interior, left Sergeant
Cooper in charge and went to Stockport for the purpose of
circulating the report of the supposed robbery and murder,
and get placards printed announcing that a tall man had
been wounded on the face and neck upon the landing. Mr.
Andrews came back about nine o'clock accompanied by
Mr. Graham, surgeon, Stockport, and then a minute exa-
mination was made of the place and also of the body
of the deceased. The deceased was found lying upon
his back in the bed, his head resting upon the pillow
his face a little inclined to the right, the pillow and
bolster entirely undisturbed, his arms lying outside
the bed clothes, both hands closed and crossed
over his breast ; his legs wore straight down, the soles of
his feet resting against the foot-board of the bedstead ;
over all was a shepherd's plaid, which was undisturbed,
and which was, with the clothes, tucked in round the bed ;
and from the examination it was perfectly plain that the
deceased had been shot while asleep, that he had never
awe's?, and that he had been sent, without a struggle,
and without a single moment of consciousness, into
eternity. From the position of the wound, which went
through the mouth, and Lout the shot having lodged in
the bones on the other side of the face, it was also quite
clear that whoever shot him had stood just outside the
foot of the bed, and from that short disetnce—a distance
of two or three feet—had poured the discharge into his
heal, The surgeon will de-cribs to you more minutely
dem it is necessary I should now do, the condition of the
belie the injury which had been done, and it will be clear
that he had died in a moment, without awakenirg and
without manifesting the smallest consciousness. In the
substance of the brain Mr. Graham, the surgeon, found
eigtt pellets or shot, and in the extreme back of the mouth
two other pellets and two teeth which had been
loosened by the shot. At a subsequent examination,
more carefully made, a g-eat many more pellets were
fount in the throat, the cesophagus, and in the muscles
of ths cervical verteb to ; and the whole of the shots
takenfeom his head and the parts adjacent weighed two
drachns and two scruples. The room was examined,
and patented a state of order and neatness apparently
utterly inconsistent with the circumstances of any
' burglary having been committed, or any attempt made by

that alfthese pieces of wadding, and other pieces of paper,
which were found in these various places—in and about the
body, on the stairs, in the prisoner's bedroom, and under
the tree—all formed a portion of four leaves of thio shut,
No. 77, of that serial publiaation which he printed, and a
considerable quantity of sheets of which was found in
the dressing table-drawer of the prisoner's room. Now
what possible explanation is to be given on the
part of the prisoner on this portion of the evidence ?
Is it conceivable—is it possible that robbers, or burglars,
or that, any. one, inmates of the house, if even that
hypothesis should be put before you, could have put in
the prisoner's gun on the Tuesday morning before he
fired it off at that bird, or any previous time into the
other barrel which he alleged he fired off on the stairs—
this wadding, for the express purpose, by inspiration
beforehand, of convicting the prisoner of this murder.
Can it be doubted that the hand which loaded and dis- .
charged the fun—and inasmuch as substantially the
same thing forms the wadding of the discharge that
killed the deceas,d, and the wadding of the two dis-
charges which the prisoner admits he fired, and the paper
remaining in his chamber pot—can it be for one moment
doubted that his was the band to put all the welding
into the barrels of the gun, and fired off all the charges
which carried with them all these pieces of paper. Bat
this is not al'. Mr. Andreas, after suspicion generated
in his mind against the prisoner, made a more minute
examination of the desk from which the prisoner alleged
that £l4 10s in gold had been taken. It was then found
—and we have not merely his testimony in corroboration
of the fact, bat that of a practical locksmith, who will
he here, and come before you—that this hasp, which was
lying loose on the table, and which the prisoner said had
obviously been forced off--on examination it was found
that the desk itself was unlocked. Whoever, therefore,
had forced the hasp off had forced it off without hiving
observed that the desk was open, or that it was unlocked.
And it will be pr aced before you that if the bolt had been
in the lock, or the desk had been locked, that in the course
of forcing the hasp off of necessity either the bolt of the
lock must have been broken, or the hasp must have adhered
to the lock. Under no conceivable circumstances could the
desk have been forced in the condition in which it was, ex-
cept it lied been previously unlocked. That wee obviously
not done by any burglar for the purpose of stealing mon?y,
for the burglar would only have had to open the desk and
take the money. Now, was there any money there? Is it, pro-
bable that the prisoner would have left that ameatat of
money there, lying ina desk in the sitting room, or if tie had,
he would have left it unlocked ? However that may be, it
will be proved that the hasp was forced off the dt-sk while
it was in fact open and unlocked. They then made a
very careful search about the house and the garden, the
hedges, ditches, and woods in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the house. They found no mark of violence oe
any door or window, except the broken pane which the
prisoner said his discharge had caused. There was no
foot-marks either of persoes going to or coming from the
house. There were no foot-prints in the"garden or about
the fences, or in the adjoining bolds—nothing whatever
to indicate the egress form, or egress to the !loom of
burglars, or any other persons. The granary door was
examined, and in the latch was found the small piece of
word to which I have already referred; and under the
bottom was found another small piece of wood which
hal fitted to it, it would appear that, if the door had
been properly shut, this piece of wool would have been
of itself sufficient to keep it closed. But, as you will
see, the two Irishmen got out without difficulty.
You will bear in mind that the prisoner's first expression
to Manlocknay in the kitchen wee, "Come, M chael, let
us go and lank at your door." Why did that occur to
him at that time ? Was it because he really expected,
without any participation of his own is the• matter, that
he would find something there? Or, was it that
haying himself, or by some other agent, placed the wog d
these fir the purpose of preveutiog the egress of these
men in case of alaem, he wondered why the thing dil
not succeed in accordance with his wishes and ha felt
curious—he wondered how it was that his scheme ,hould
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the immediate alarm, and Biter the departure of Thomas robbersto commit this crime, still less by robbers amounting 1 why it had failed ? But to proceed. The prisoner
and Dillon to fetch the police, they had gone back to bed. to so asny as six o!? seven A small piece of carpet I
returned from Manchester about three o'clock in the
At that time, having no en picion of any one in the which Ity by the bedside was smooth and undisturbed, i afternoon, and after a consultation with the chief constable
house, Andrews addressed the prisoner, saying, and everrhing was entirely in its place. In the pockets lmf the county and some of the authorities, Superintendent
"You have had something serious here' Prisoner of the deceased, which lay at the foot of the bed, were l Andrews told him that he should arrest him en the charge
replied " Yes." Andrews next asked, " Have they found a billing and a key, which key opened a little of having mar lered his father. The prisoner uttered aOn
taken anything ?" The prisoner replied, " They have table in its room, and in that table was found untouched what grounds ? Andrews replied, "On goeinds of
broken open my writing case, and taken about an order tpon the Bank of Scotland for £lOO, a bank I strong suspicion,' and told him that he would be detained
£l4 103. in gold." The sitting room, in which on the receipt for 4293 10s, £5 in gold, anti about seven shillings ►in ctistody till the matter was further investigated. He
table was this writing case, was visited by Andrews, who in silver ant copper—nothing removed, nothing disturbed. replied, "Oh ! very well, I suppose I can speak to my
saw there the desk, open, and the papers strewn about on They then aade a minute examination of the bed clothes mother ?" Accordingly, Mr. Andrews accompaniA
the table and floor. The prisoner pointed to the corn and of the floor, and immediately opposite the bed and the prisoner into the kitchen, where he told his mother
partment from which the money had been taken ; he also partly upon the bed clothes—indeed partly upon the that he had been taken up on a charge of murdering his
picked up the piece of brass which fOrmed the hasp of body of the deceased—Mr. Andrews picked up twelve I father. The mother and daughters were at tea. They
the desk, and said, " This is the way it has been broken small fragments of paper, which, from their being merely linked up, said nothing, but went on with their
open." Andrews then locked up the room, and took blackened and singed, had obviously formed part of meal, and the prisoner sat down and joined them. And.
away the key. They came out again into the pas- the wadding of the grin or pistol by which the deceased ' gentlemen, I really feel constrained to remark upon the
sage, and Mr. Andrews asked him how the entrance hed been killed, and upon which were printed words. 1 erraordinary callousness and indifference manifested
had been effected. He replied, " I suppose some These twelve pieces of paper have been carefully preserved Iby this family both in respect to the mardes of their
one of them must have been concealed in the cellar aad put together in their natural position, or as nearly so ! husband and father, and in respect to the arrest of a son
during tae evening, who let the other members as could le, in separate slips between two pieces of ties, and brother on so serious a charge ; I really do think that
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of the gang in as soon as we were all in bed. I which will enable you to see both sides of the paper, and i this is one of the most remarkable things 1 have ever
was up myself until half-past 12, and the kitchen door the printint on both sides. [The learned counsel here ! beard of. Such, gentlemen, are the circumstances imme-
was then fast. I thought I heard a shuffling of feet exhibited tie pieces of paper so arranged ] Upon 1 diately surrounding and following the commission of this
in the cellar, and went down a few steps, but returned, one of the pieces—they will all be handed to ! came ; and when circumstances are discovered which, to
as I heard nothing, and went to bed." As they went up you—are tie figures 1198, being obviously the ! say the least, impute a strong suspicion to a man of
the lending, the prisoner pointed out a pane of glass in number of he page of the beck from which the ,
1 committing a murder, and still more when they impute to
the landing window, and stated that the pane had been paper had beer. taken, and there are certain words upon i
the eon—the eldest son of a murdered man the commission
broken by his firing at a man whom he saw standingupon it. On the othr side are the figures 119, which had evi- lof the crime, then it becomes a natural and a necessary
the stairs. "Do you think you hit him ?" said Mr. dently in the wtole been 1197, the third figure being ' subject of inquiry-0 Can any assignable motive be
Andrews. " Yes," the prisoner replied, " for he uttered wanting. Upon . search being made upon the stairs and ' found for the commission of the crirna"—not any
an (xclamation as if hurt." Mr. Andrews examined the lauding, whereas prison-r had alleged he fired at a man . " adequate" motive, Er no such motive could exist ;
stairs in the prisoner's presence, to see if they could find i who was standing',here, no blood was found, and nothing but such a motive as, acting on an iil-disciplined and an
any more traces, but did not succeed. At the prisoner's to indicate any inary to anybody, although the prisoner evil-disposed mind, %meld impel him to the commission
bed-room door, which they now reached, upon the next had stated that he fire 1 at him and hit him in the face of crime': It will be proved to you without doubt tht
landing, the prisoner took his gun, which was inside the with the shot,
room fa. the purpose of showing Mr. Andrews the position as if injured, but he constables picked up between bed terms indeed wa h his father. Indeed, it was the
in which he stood when he fired. But I believe Mr. the stairs and the handrail =ether piece of paper remark of the servants in the house that they had not
Andrews will tell you that the prisoner was standing at also, containing tinted matter on - both sides, i interchanged a word. Now it app-ars that the old man
the moment outside the room, and that he could not by which I now hold a my hands, and which has also hid the farm by a lease from 1853 for nineteen years,
any possibility from that position have struck the window been carefully preseoed between two pieces of glass I and the prisoner was exceedingly desirous of becoming
at all; and that he must have been in his bed room to get This paper, being .Iso blackened and singed, had th a tenant of the, farm in the place of his father ; and
the proper inclination for the shot where the shots were obviously formed pare of the wadding of the barrel seine time ego —about a year before the father's death
found in the window frame. Mr. Andrew said, " what was of the gun which the prisoner had undoubtedly fired —the prisoner wro'e a note to Mr. Cook, land agent
the very first thing you heard?" He replied, " I heard there, and which he aleged he fired at a man standing jof Colonel Davenport, in which he requested that
the report of fire arms in my father's room, upon which I there. In the sheet d printed matter I hold in my Mr. Cook would call on him on the Monday evening
jumped out of bed, seized my gun, which stood against the hand, in another portionof the same page of the same following, in order that he might have a little private
drawers behind the hod room door, andeeeeing the shadow book of which the 12 Feces found in the bed formed t conversation with him in regard to some small matters
of a min, immediately fired at him." He also said, " I a portion, are the same verde as those on the portion relating to the firm. Mr. Cook went oa the nppointed
saw a light from my father's room." Now it is quite found upon the stairs. The next place searched evening, and had an intervie e with the prisonea The
clear that from within the bedroom in which the prisoner was the prisoner's bad-torn, and in the wash-hand prisoner began by saying that what he was going to tell
slept it would have been impossible for him to have seen a bowl were found two plitts or shot, and in the Mr. Cook, was a very hard thing for a son to say against a
light in his father's room. He said at the time, a I saw a chamber-root, another piece of paper, also with printing father, but the fact was his father then being absent in
light at the moment I fired, but it was extinguished im- on it, but not blackened or sag sd, and it had obviously not i Scotland, he thonglit that a favourable opportunity to
mediately, and two men rushed, and I believe two or throe been used as the welding of the gun, and, and I suggest share a little conversation with the agent or the lan :lord of
others were waiting for them outside the house." Mr. An- to you, had been thrown awe/ when the gun was being of the farm. He then complained that his father's
drews said, "Did you call out before you fired; loaded in that place. That leper has also been preserved. temper was so bad that he could not live with him any
it might have been your brother or some other I hold it in my hand ; and it orresponds with that portion longer ; that the old man had had a law suit in Scotland
member of the family." He answered, " No, I didn't ; of the page of this book immediately adjoining the that , had nearly ruined, the family ; that when he
but as soon as I fired the gun I saw the men rush I portion cerrespenging with he piece found on the was in Scotland he was a great drunkard, and finished
past immediately." They went into the de landing. On the room-floes in the neighbou'hood of , off by saying "I don't know whether you are aware of
ceased's room, and in the drawer of a table in the room the wash-hand bowl and chamber pot, were found a I it, but I found the greater portion of the money to cease
was a Scotch bank note for £lOO undisturbed. Now the quantity of loose shot which tad not been in the gun, on this farm," and he then wished to know whether he
prisoner at the bar at that time was entirely unsuspected, and a spent cap ; and in thechamber-pot, along with and his brother Thomas might not have the farm
and he stated to Mr. Andrews that he was cashier to a this piece of paper was found Rother spent cap. In the ins'add of his father, and he wool 1 see that the rent was
firm in Manchester, and that it was important for him to wash-hand table drawer was fond a powder II ask partly paid punctually ,• that after four years the rent should
go to Manchester, as he had keys and books which would full of powder, and a shot bat about half full of pellets, be increased ; that his mother and sisters knew of the
hinder the business, and accordingly he was told there was two more spent caps—four, theefore, in all—and a box application, and wished the arrangement to be made.
nothing to prevent his going, and between eight and nine of unused caps ; and, upon comparison, the pellets Subsequently in the month of March, the prisoner called
o'clock in the morning he went. He called a little after found in the body of the deceeed and in the bedroom, on Mr. Cook, at his house, and made a similar applicro
nine at the private residence of one of his masters', Mr. and the pellets found in ha different parts of lion. I told you Mr. Walker, the steam-packet agent
Smith, and told him that some robbers had broken into the the prisoner's room were found bbe of exactly the same at Manchester, was an old friend of the family. He
house, and that his father was shot or killed. " How many size and weight. Then they seached the dressing table had known the prisoner for twelve or thirteen years, and
men were there." ask d Mr. Smith. " Six or seven," drawer, and in it were found atonsiderable numeer of the other members of the family for four or five years.
replied the prisoner. Questions were put to the prisoner penny serial publications, the tite of which was " The In the same month of March, the prisoner called at Mr.
by Mr. Smith, in reply to which answers were Cottage Girl, or the Marriage Dat" I hold in my hand Walker's °f lee, in Manchester, complaining greatly of his
given, and on being asked how it first began, one of the sheets of that publicaton so found, and this, 1 father's conduct, and using expressions of a very oppro-
the prisoner replied that he heard steps of some men the sheet found in the drawer is the only portion to' briaus character, which you will hear, calling him names
about the house, that he immediately jumped out of bed, which I shall direct you attention. It seems to form a which, to say the least, were exceedingly improper to be
took a gun and fired it at a man. Upon his being asked part of the whole number 77 of Ilia publication. It used with respect to a father under any circumstances.
whether he hit the man, the prisoner replied, "Yes I hit ranges from 1185 to 1200, and, therfore, includes within However, he went on to say they were going to put his
him for he gave a loud screech:" Nothing of this kind was its pages 1197 and 1198, and also the pages 1187 and father into a mad-house, that he was not fit to have
heard by any of the other inmates of the house. The 1183 ; and 'these two leaves would be the two outside anything to do with the family. He then gave Mr.
prisoner then went on to say that as soon as he fired, some leaves of that sheet. Subsequently, I think upon the Walker a copy of a lease to keep, which he desired him
other men rushed out of the room and ran down stairs, Thursday morning, a further examintion was made by to keep secret from the family. Mr. Walker refused to
that there were about two or three men, but he could not Mr. Andrews under the pear tree .t which prisoner have anything to do with it unless the lease was sealed up,
tell exactly. " Why did you not give then the other alleged he had cn the Tuesday mornig shot a sparrow, which was done. Mr, Walker remonstrated with the pri-
barrel," asked Mr. Smith. In reply, floe prisoner stated and under that tree was found, by Mr /*draws, two other soner, and a long conversation ensued, which that gentle-
that he had only one barrel left, havi g fired the other pieces of paper, also singed and blackned, and which man would give more iu detail, but with respect to the
off on Saturday morning, this being between hid obviously formed part of the waddng cf that die. prisoner's father Mr. Walker said they must not thick of
Tuesday and Wednesday, He had fired the other charge which the prisoner alleged he tad made; and putting hint lute a mad-house, as he was quite sane, and
barrel off at a few birds which were in a pear you will find upon looking at them that they form a the surgeons would find it out directly. A few days
tree in the garden and brought one down. Now it is part of pages 1187 and 1188 of the sane sheet of the after this the prisoner called again on Mr. Walker,
quite clear that between the Saturday and. the Tuesday same pehicetion, and that the portions which have been Ind told him that they could not put up with that old
when the crime was committed the prisoner had ample 'torn off from the top of pages 1187 and 188 so c'osely WOW any longer, and I have given him something which
opportunity to load both barrels. Shortly after this he correspond with the portion torn off frog 1197 and la will take a long time to get over. I have been obliged
called at the office of a Mr. Walker, a steam-packet agent, 1198, found about the body and the bed, as to lead tie his hands and feat. In consequence of that state-
and an old friend of the family, and who had known the almost to the inevitable conclusion that both had been melt Mr. Walker went to Bramhali to see the deceased,
prisoner for a considerable time. Mr. Walker was not torn off by the same band, almost at the sane moment. and'ound marks of very considerable violence upon him,
then at home, but on calling subsequently he found that With reference to these last pieces of paper it is ma His eves were swollen and blackened; his lips and jaws
Mr. Walker had heard of the murder. A conversation duty to state that, although Mr. Andrews found them on also smiler), his arms abrased and black, and his legs in
ensued, and the prisoner said it was a sad thing. Mr. the Thursday morning, by some mistake or misappre- the sale condition. The next day Mr. Walker received
Walker e eked him where his father had been shot, and the hension on his part he did not deem tlrm of the a note torsi the prisoner, desiring to see him at the house
prisoner replied, in his cheek. Mr. Walker then asked materiality of vvhica they now appear to be, and he did not of a masied sister of the prisoner's. The prisoner, upon
the prisoner with what weapon his father had been killed, mention them either at the inquest or at the examination meeting nitro, said, "I want to see you on account of what
and he replied, with a gun. Now. it was utterly before the magistrates ; nor was it till Thursday, the the old Vilain owes me." Mr. Welker told the prisoner of
impossible, if the prisoner's story about the 26th of November, when Mr. Reddish, the attorney for the ill usag, to which he had found the deceased had been
robbers was correct, that in the short space of the prosecution, was having all these waddimp collected subjected, ‘ad that deceased had told him that be (the
time which he alleged he had to see the robber and looked up, that he learned from Mr. Anirews the prisoner) wta the only one who had caused a quarrel in
or robbers that he could have discovered whether fact that he had found these papers. However, Mr. the house, to which the prisoner replied, "Itis a lie, and
the weapon used was a pistol or a gun. Mr. Walker f Andrews will tell you distinctly that he did find he is an old vaaia." The married sister then rejoined,
then asked the prisoner how it took place, and the pri- them there and that they are as certainly true and "He is a bad ad man." Mr. Walker strongly advised
soner gave this description :—" About two o'clock this genuine documents as the others to which I have the prironer to the house, as if he (the prisoner)
morning I heard a noise, and I took up my gun,"_ and called your attention. Now, the printer of `,his is very still persisted inthere. he was afraid murder would
here I must remark that there was no other gun but the publication has been discovered, and he is hers, and he be committed. Now, gentlemen, I believe this is a
prisoner's in the house. "I took up my gait to my will prove to you beyond doubt, to absolute demonstration, correct outline of Le ievidence which will be laid before