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London, England, 1804-05-16 00:00:00

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fIOM INTZRISTING TRIAL OT WILLIA:t SP AI-
LING, RN. AND S. M. cotquiTT, ESQ. FOR Tllt
MURDER Of HR.ZDWARD GRAYSON, SKIP-lielLDRIt,
AT LIVIRI.OOI.
Ccucludeld from Tit BRITISII Pi4...s of Me illy.

1111NRY PARK, SWORN.
Examined by Mr. SiARLET•
Q. Mr. Park, I believe you are a surgeon at Li-
verpool ?
A. I am.
Q. Did you, Sir, accompany Dr. M'Cartney in
a chaise on the 26th of February to the Park
Chapel ?
A. I did.
Q. At what hour in the morning ?
A, The carriage called at my house a few mi-
nu:es before seven.
Q. I be:ieve you did not know the purpose for
which you were wanted.
A. No.
Q. Did Mr. M'Cartney get out at the Park Cha-
pel ?
A. He got out of the chaise at the Chapel, and
desired me to do so ton; but I declined going any
farther.
Q. Did you see Mr. Grayson there?
A. Mr. Grayson came past, I should rather say
we passed him in the chaise, and a servant walking
with him, about :.tOu yards before we reached Park
Chapel.
Q. Did Mr. Grayson come up to the chaise?
A. He came up to the chaise door—he shook
bands with me, and then went down towards Knot's
Hole.
Q. Did you hear any thing shortly after that ?
A. In a minute or two I heard a discharge of
pistols, I could not exadly say whether it was two
i or one, but I thought I could perceive a double re-

port.
Q. Did you, Sir, after that see the prisoners, Mr.
Sparling and Capt. Colquitt ?
A. A fcw minutes after that I saw too gentle-
men running up the fbot road towards the lane
where 1 was.
Q. Did you know the gentlemen
A. A moment after I took alarm at their haste,
and afterwards round they were Capt. Colquitt and
Mr. Sparling, I crossed the style to meet them, and
as I came up to them, Captain Colvitt said,
M ake haste, Mr. Park ; Mr. Grayson is wounded."
Q. Did Mr. Sparling say any thing ?
A. Not a word.
Q. Did you proceed further ?
A. I proceeded further, and when I got over the
next style I saw Mr. Grayson standing supported by
Dr. M.Cartney and his own servant—upon seeing
him I observed the breeches of his right thigh very
bloody—there appeared a shot hole in the upper
part of his right thigh near the hip—he com-
plained of being in pain, and said the use of his
limbs was gone ; that he could stand no longer, and
must be allowed to sit down—on this, with the as-
sistance of some persons who were called, none of
whom I knew, he was carried into the chaise.
Q. Did you attend him, Mr. Past, until his
death ?
A. I attended him tilt his death.
Q. What upon examination did you find to haVe
been the wound ?
A. We found the wound on the upper and outer
part of the right thigh—the hole was sufficiently
large to admit the finger, with some difficulty—at
as great a depth as we could reach with the finger
we found the bone bare—we discovered a hcle in the
head of the bone, and a hall lodged in that hole—
a good deal of time was spent i.. endeavouring to
ascertain the possibility of Lco-offing the ball, and
whether greater danger might not arise from endea-
vouring to extract the hall, tiro by letting it remain
these. Then I agreed to desist from any forcible at-
tempts. He lingered under this wound until near
three o'clock on the Sunday morning following,
when he died, I have no doubt, in consequence of
that wound.
Q. You examined the body after his death ?
A. It was about twelve hours after his death in
the presence of the jury.
C. Was there any ball extraißed afterwards ?
A. There was.
Q. Have you got the bail ?
A. I have, Sir (Mr. Park then produced the ball,
which was handed to Mr. Scarlet, and afterwards to
the Judge).
Q. Was this ball, Sir, found in the bone ?
A. It was ; in the head of the bone.
Q. Did you weigh the ball, Mr. Park?
A. I did not.
Q. Upon examination of the wound after his
death, is it yoar jecl&ment that that ball was the oc-
casion of it?
A. I am clearly of opinion that it was.
Q Do you know, Mr. Park, whether Mr. Grayson,
during your attendance on him considered himself
in danger.
A. Mr. Grayson thought himself in danger from
the first, he was a man naturally apprehensive under
illness, mole particularly so after the night of Wed-
nesday.
Q. Do you know, Sir, whether at that time, after
the riyht of Wednesday, he expeffed to recover? •
A. I have reason ,0 say he did not from his words.
Q. From the words he used?
A. Yes.
Q. Did Mr. Grayson after the time you say he
gave himself up, make any communication to you
with respect to the pt igniter at the bar ?
Sir A. ChlA \IBM on, yourself, considered the
case as desperate after Wednesday ?
A. Atter the alarming symptoms of Wednesday
night, on 'Thursday I thought the case was com-
ple:ely desperate.
Mr. A e LET-1 lad anymerificatios taken place?
A. No mortification appeared externally till after
deatn.
Q. Though you did not discover the mortification
till after his death, had you any reason to believe
there was amortification before his death ?
A. There were some syenploms of mortification,
but there were other favourable circumstances, such