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the window into the street `'a girl it rind
bro:ubilt. ; ' witness. said,' ." 0 you murderine,
villalrb. you have' mur,tt:red that man with that
knife :" " 0," "it is only like a
prick of a pia, he'll not be a pin the gorse of it 1"
The door leading from the shop to the kitchen,was
open all the time;. the girl of the house, Isabella
York, stood at the kil.,then-dooor, and saw the
whole transaction as %veil as witness ; as soon as

deceasedseccived, the wound he 7clappedliis hand
upon it, and went out to
,the Doctor's, as Well
as he could ; prisoner rem mined in the shop till
deceased returned from the Doctor's ; he was de-•
tained by many persons who gathered round' the
door: _
. . . .

Examined by the Court---Prisoner has' been
Captain of a vessel twenty :years, during which
time witness often saw him. in BElfast, sometimes
four or fivetime.s in a yeai• Ile generally remain-
ed till he had his
,goods sold, and till the wind
served him to sail. Heald. of prisoner's being a
,hard drinking man, and. keeping foolish Corti-.
pany, and behaving irf,properly when drunk.—
Believes prisoner bad three or four men, under
him in the ship ; was in the coal trade; belonged
to Irvine ; has heard • the vessel belonged to- pri-
soner-alone.
Isabella York sworn—;Was servant to Mrs.
Carrol im September.last ; was acquainted with
Charles Moore, and with prisoner k-renietribers.3d
September ; was. standing at the door of the
kitchen, and saw. prisoner in the shop, with his
back to the , door-way, leaning on a" half-door,
which was open ;. in about two minutes saw de-
ceased come into the shop from the street, round
the- Counter ; saw prisoner take the knife from
the counter, and as deceased was turning round,
he drew the knife and stabbed him with it.. The
counter was at first between, them ; deceaFed
shouted, "Murder !" and prisoner threw' the
knife back-handed out of the window ; her eye-
sight then got weak, and she soon after saw de-
ceased leaning against tire wall, and. as he went
out she followed him and spoke to_him, .but he
made no reply ; prisoner remained in the shop,
near the door, she pushed biro hack into the shop;
she accused him of the murder -; be said, " tak,
your hurry girl, he's nothing the worse more than
I am," and desired his bill to be made out, " as
he was fit enough to pay his, way." Saw no
provocation given either to prisoner or to the
sailor in his company ; the deceased .had no
weapon, used no threat or threatening gesture.
Gilbert M'llveen, Esq. sworn.—Lives in Bel-
fast ; is a Magistrate of the County of Antrim ;
remembers 3d September last ; saw the prisoner
that day
_about four o'clock ; he was 'brought up
to witnees's house, who was not then at home;
but met Mr. Verner, now Sovereign, who desired
witness to go home, where he found prisoner,

-whom he left in custody of some persons present,
and went to Dr. Arrot's shop, where he saw de-
ceased wounded, and took his depositions; then
returned to.his own•house, 'where prisoner asked
witness-"" if he might ask him if that business
was concluded?" meaning, as witness understood,
if :Moore was dead. Witness replied, "he feared
it would be too soon Concluded for his purpose."
Prisoner appeared to be in liquor, but not.other-

-wise disordered in his_rnindras witness could judge.

• Witness- had previonSly informed piisoner that he
was going to take Il4inore's cxarninatitin.
Here the evidence for tPe prosecution closed
for the-present.

prasoNEß'S-

DEFLNCE.

CharleS Stanfield sworn.—Knows
,prisoner, and
has done so for 12 or 14 years past; remembers-
tinie of. aiicident, saw prisoner in-the morning of
that day', and also after he vas a prisoner, on fol-
lowing day in:the black hole of the Barrack; was
rather in a deranged state of mind,as he thought,
and about half drunk ; prisoner Sent for witness.;
'acted_quite giddily, he went out and-locked wit-
ness in ; witness expostulated with him on the
act ; prisoner said, " if God Almighty's_Son was
to attempt
_to take his life, he would do the same
thing to Witness often Observed prisoner's
c l'auet before when, in drink ; very frequently
saw instances,of extraordinary conduct in him ;
one instance happened to witness j prisoner` got
his liquor for ships. use from witness, and he of-
ten gave him a tumbler of spirits ; called one day
It A a vagabond looking fellow= and wanted a
tumbler, Which 'witness refused,, and prisoner
asked for his, account,: and while Witness was
looking. for .it, priSOner took up the book and
truck witness in the face with it-;
,next day. he
Made an apology for .his. conduct ; witness does
not think him quite as rational as other 'people
w ten in drink ; witness could not get prisoner to
ik rationally on the subject when-he -visited
inm, and therefore left him. . , • • .

.nicbael Thonboe.--Knows Pijscher ; has
known hint-only since the day he was put in t?:e
hl ck hole of Belfast ; saw him there that even-
ing;.; appeared like a man out of his sTIISCS.;, Nyit-
ness and an officer of. the .guard, • and another
went to see hint ;. Prisoner asked witness to let
'Jinn out, and asked a fir. King also to do so,
saying " he had ho smuggled goods on board,
and asked why he was detained there i" • Did nbt
appear sensible of what he had done'; witries
saw him again next' morning in same place, Lc
then beleaved very foolishly at intervals ; he knows.
one Anderson, a sailor belonging to the prioner's.
crew ; he attended at last Assizes 3, does riot know
if I e is n6v here ; saw him 'on board the
on the ev=ening of accident ; ...did not know either
of Item previusly; went to visit prisoner at the
request, of King.; the. officer Of, the _guard ad-
mitted him to the black hOle ; believes the pri-
soner was in liquor ; liquor disturbs men's minds
More or less, some moretthan others.; visited pri-
soner in jail .k.wo, or three times ; never.leat'd.-
that it was intended to set qp a pit-.a of insanity
as a defence
.for" prisoner ; never but Once be-
fora ; forgot that at first ; does not know :Whe-
ther such- a. plea is a good one in case of murder.
Elizlabeth Brown swofn.7.7is daughter 'o pri-
soner, (this witnessfwas- greatly affeeteid) is 18
years of age ; her Mother is alive ; has resided
witii.her till now';',,prisoner'*as a gob& husband
and father when sober, as., ever was ; has sen
bim t inter7als when: drunk ; has often struf..l„-,
her mother in that. state ; lie was then- quite out
of his judgment, 4nd, they were obliged to- leave

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