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The man whom I did not know purred (kicked) me and struck me.
When he went away another came up and beat me as ill. and
knocked me down. The titan who knocked me down afterwards
stabbed me, and I bled very much ; I did not feel the stabs until 1
began running. I walked nn to the first cottage. where I was
obliged to remain. I was bleeding all over. I was stabbed until
my boa els ['Mlle out. There were besides four stabs in my arm and
four cabs about my neck and head. I was obliged to tulip at the
cottage about a month and three or tour days, during which time I ,
was attended by a doctor.
By the Couirr asked the man if he was going to murdsr
me ; lie said lie would. I said I was a stranger, and asked
to let.me alone,. I don't know now who the man was. lam quite
sure that I gate no provocation to any person to attsck me.
Joseph Mowers, a weaver at Calahett, was with the last wit-
ness on the night in (titration. After Bate and Aldred had the
quarrel, Bate went away and returned with two nteh, and they
struck Aldred. They went away, and we made Aldred conic
with us. When Bate. with the other six men, Caine up, we ran
away, and I heard Pomfret crying out. Ile Wit two roods distant
from me. I maw him afterwards, and he was all bloody.
George Dickinson, a weaver, who wax in company on the night
in uestion with the prosecutor, corroborated his evidence.
Ambrose Bate—l had a quarrel with Aldred, and I afterwards
went towards Newton, and met two men, ;siailltie and Smith. I
then returned, and having overtaken Aldred, who wasof Pomfret's'
party, I strurk hint. Some one of Poinfret's party, which con-
sisted of eight or ten persona. said, " there arc but three of them,
let'a give them a threshing." StrAtie then went and fetched my
brother William and four or five m.;11 from the Millstone public-
house. The prisoner was one of the men who came from the Mill-
stone. Pnmtret's party were all sitting upon the liedr, and I went
up and said, where is the man that threshed me near the Millstone?
Aldred jumped up and I ran army him down the lane, but I could
not catch hint. When I retrned the two parties were lighting,
but I did not see any thing done to Pomfret. After die fight was
over, the prisoner put his arm round my neck, and showing me a
clasp krtite, said, " This knife, Ambrose, I have run into a man
three or four times." I blam. d hint for doing as, lout he did not
any any thing more. I asked him how he could find it in his heart
to do so.

Cross.examined by the prisoner—I am quite sore the prisoner Is
the man who showed me the knife. I was not drunk. I had had
wine liquor. The prisoner did not appear to be drunk.
Win. Bate, the brother of Andrew Bate—l was at the Millstone
public-house, when I was called by Sam Kie, to assist my brother.
t ive or six of us (of whom the prisoner was one) went to my bro.
ther's assistance. The prisoner, on our way, said, c If he could
not manage with his hands, lie should use his knife." I said it was
an unlawful weapon, and that there would be no occasion for it. I
did not see any thing done to Pomfret.
The prisoner hare said that he did not say so.
John Killsliaw—l am a farmer's labourer, who worked on the
Annie Erni with the prisoner, and lived in the same house. On the
night of the prisoner's return from the Newton d don, he had a
knife in his hand. I told hint to put it into his pocket, and he said,
" This knife has been in a man's belly many times." He did rot
say any thing that night about what had happened on the road, but
on die next day he told me that he was sorry that he had gone to
the polling at Newton. He did not say at what time the knife had
been in a nian's belly.
Mr. George Wilmot Handy, a surgeon, described the nature of
the thirteen wounds inflicted upon the prosecutor, and said, that,
from some of the wounds, the life of the prosecutair was in consi-
derable danger. The wounds must have been inflicted by a sharp
instrument. Mr. Owen, the constable, showed nie a knife, and
upon comparing is with the wounds, it agreed with them in point of
size.

Richard Owen-1 am a constable. I took the prisoner into
casual), on Saturday the 10th of June. I found the knife (now
produced) in tits pocket. I have the clothes worn by the prosecu.
for on that night. (The clothes were produced, and the shirt was
clotted with blood.) I gave the knife to Mr. Handy.
Mr. Handy was recalled, and he said, that the cuts in the pm.
secutor's clothes corresponded exactly with the wounds in his body
There is blood within the knife. It would occasion the wounds on
the prosecutor's body.
Ambrose Bate way again recalled, but he said he thought the
knife simian to him, by the prisoner, on the night in question, was
a whi e hafted one.

The knife pnaluced in Coup was a dark hafted knife.
The constable, Owen, was again called, and he said that when
he took the knife from the prisoner, on the day after the election,
there was blood in the inside.
The prisoner (who had no Counsel), said in his defence, that
Bates owed him a spite, and that all the witnesses had sworn falsely
against him.
Mr. Justice PARK in summing up, said, that the question for
the conaidertion of the Jury was, whether or not they could safely
conic to a conclusion upon the evidence which they had heard, that
the prisoner was the person who had given the wound if they
should be of opinion that the prisoner was the person who had used
the knife, then they would say with what intent he had done so. whe-
ther with an intent to kill, or to maim, or to do grievous bodily
harm, rnd by grievous bodily harm, the Jury must understand that
it did not mean imply cutting,but Inflicting some permanent injury.
The Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, with intent to
du the prosecutor grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner was again put upon his trial upon a smilax indict.
ment, charging him with having, on the sante day, at the same
place, cut and stabbed Joseph Mowers, with intent to murder,
maim, or do him sonic grievous bodily harm.
The only difference between the evidence in this and the former
case was, that in this case the prisoner only inflicted one wound
upon the prosecutor.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, with Intent to do the pro-
sectitor sonic grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Justice PARK passed sentence of death on the prisoner, in the
most solemn manner.—Upon belying the sentence, he shed a few
tears, and was removed from the dock.
LAVCACTFII AUGUST 12.