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der had been eornmitteA ; but diey had then no
further conversation en the subject, as they were
,urrounded by people on the top of the coach.
Hanneld, on his arrival in ton t, underwent an exa-
mination, l censequence of Which, he and the CV it-
ness went together to Hounslow. Tbey stopped-at
the Bell Inn, whence they proceeded to the heath ;
when Hanfield again pointed nut the place where
the crime was perpetrated, which the Wl..aess
thought exaftly the same as that pointed out by the
former witnesses, detailing the circumstances Of the
murder, previous to his escape from his eontpa.
Mons, in almost the same words as he had desetibed
them to the Court. The Witness and lie returned
to town. Sslon alter, the Witness apprehended Hol-
loway at Bintford, during the late eleaion, and
brought him to town. When I,e was examined be.
fore the Presiding Magistrate of Worship-street Of-
fice, he declared he was totally innccrnt, but added,
" if they would let him go, lie would down on his
knees to both the Magistrate and the Witness."
The Prisoner Holloway was remanded for further
examination The Witness then went down to De:II,
where he apprehended the Prisoner liagg,erty, nn
board the Shin"na fr;gate, as a marine. Vs urn the
Witness apprehended him, he was in a very I:aJ
state of health, so much so, that he was.ohlig:•d
to be left behind, nit being able to bear the fati.;iie
of removal. The Witness took an opportunity of
asking hint, in the presence cf his captain, where he
had been about three years ago ? The Prisoner an-
swered, he was then employed in London as a day
labourer. The AVitne;; then asked him, where he
had been that time fiitn yezis The Prisoner dite3ly
turned pale, and would have fainted away, had not
water been admit'istered to him. Soon after, his
health was so far restored as to permit his being re- I
moved to town, when he and the other Prisoner
underwent several cx.tniind,;.lr.s.

T. Crnker, flow-stmt Of..rer, recnilefled see-
ing, about four years ap,n, 1 i.igpetty and Han-
field tngrther, near the Seven Dials and in the
Turk's !lead. In this he was conohorated by the
statemcn: of one Limerick. ;Ir:oilier (Acct.

J. MI/an:dd. keeper of the Black Horse, Dyot-
street, knew both the Prisoners, and the Prosectror
Hanfit ld ; had frequently seen Ilanfield and Hag-
gerty in the same box in his tap room.
William Beak, keeper of the fork's Head, said,
he had seen them also at the same time in his tap-
room, but was not certain ot their b.tie.g comrades.
John Peterson had been a pot-boy at the Tut k's
Head, and had frequently drawn beet for the Pri-
soners ; but could not say they were on terms cf in-
timacy together.
John Sewer lived in 160.2. at Hounslow, at the
Bell, where he saw the two Pilsen-Ts frequently ;
could not be certain of seeing Clem in company to-
r. t`er.
John Naves. Esq. a Magistrate of the Counry.
stated, that the Prisoners were examined by him,
when Hanfield was produced in evidence against
them. He then rend from a paper the examination
of Haggerty, in which he denied knowing any thing
f either Hanfield or Holloway, or being at the
Turk's Head, or Black Horse, Porter Houses
Haggerty acknowledged he had been in confine-
ment in .Inly, ISO Z, in Tothill-fields. After his li-
bet ation, he said, he worked for some time v. its Mr.
Smith, ot Castle-street, as a plasterer ; that Lis work-
ing dress was usually a }peen velveteen jacket and
small clothes. Being confronted aftetwatds with
Mr. Smith, who dined his having ever been em-
ployed by him ;he said—u that since they bothered
him so about it, lie would give them no information
on the subje4l." The same paper stated, that Hol-
loway had acknowledged he knew Hanfield and
Haggerty. but had never drank in their company.
Had never been at Hounslow in his life. He al-
leged he had winked fora Mr. Rose, and others.
in November, 1402, %%bids, on application, was
found to be inaccurate, as he bad not worked lot
them till Match, I r-`3.
Jam's Bishop, Police Officer, was then called ;
he stated that the Priscnets had been confined in the
lock-up-rooms of WorsLip-street Office; so that,
though not in the same room together, they could
with rase converse, there being only a partition be-
tween them ; be stated. he had from time to time
heard the substance of their ci,nt crEa;on, as he had
purposely concealed himself in a cl set adjoining.
These conversations were conint'tied to witting by
himself. They consisted of mutual encoutage•
ment and pledges of fidelity ; the Prisoners
frequently consulted together on the probable
consequences of their almost daily examina-
tions, with respea to their final commitment fur
trial, and the best means of defence. In one,
Haggerty remarks to his fellow-prisoner, that he
had denied any acquaintance with him. and
asks had he been equally prudent I This the
other assents to. The prisoner. Haggerty, then
asked Holloway where lie had been for these four
years past ? the other answered, he had been in the
West Indies.

After an examination, wherein the approver,
Hanfield, declared to the Magistrate, they had. nit
the night of the murder, returned to the Black
Horse Public House, their conversation turned on
this subject, when, after some peliheration, I{lg-
gerty unguardedly said, " It must have been there
we had the gin."
John Smith, coachman to the Gosport roach, in
the month of November, 1802, near 8 o'clock in
the evening of the ahovemrntioned day, heard, as
he passed across Hounslow Heath, on the right.
hand side of the road, near the 11 milestone,
two groans, the last more faint than the other, on
which he remarked to some one on the outside of
'he coach, that " there was something desperate
carrying on there."
Isaac Clayton, Beadle of Hounslow, said, he re.
ceived a pair of shoes and a stick from some person
he does not recollect, just after the murder of Mr.
6teele; he recollected, near six years ago, seeing
lio:loway in company with a man of the same
name, who had a wooden leg, shoot the town of
Hounslow ; he had seen him also sit Brentford
Election. and other places. The prisoner himself
acknowledged be knew him, when examined in
Worship-street.

Joseph Townsend, police officer of Worsbip.
street, produced a huge Imptry bludgeon, a pair Of
shoes, and a hAt, which had been given sevtral
years ago to Clayton, by Hugbe,, and was deli•
vexed in him by Clayton.
J. 1314ckman, an ofScer, c 4 w Haggett), 7 years,