The Sun.
London, England, 1805-08-22 00:00:00

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On Wednesday se'niiiglit TkoindsPe.wrci tried
Ii a. the Nk;ill'ul murder of Will Tedd, in the
of 'fyitemouth.
The first witne,ss calle.d was Ed ;yard Potts. lle
-said, he kelit- pblic-Ilotitie: Spring-g:irdens, iii
the parish ofEarsdon, near Hartley, hi this Cowl.:
ty, The deceased came to.wittiess's by iEse on SA,'
turday the t sill of A.ugust last) about
ita ,
the evening, and.. remained there until abotit
half past ,eleven o'clock: ; -He remained Waiting' for
his son,, who was working at Forsdon. The witneSs
said he saw the deceased have one glas of gin, who
was in company with: five otherS, the k bad_
ten tankards of ale amongst them. Witness gaLtl
I do not think he had any more spirits„ nor Oft.
I absent more than a quarter of an hour; 'and was
always in the same room. He said his Wile served:
the liquor. After the deceased left the house, he
went home, towards Hartley, where he lived.

nes went with hini 'about ten yards from his own
house, but saw him about fifty yards upon the
road, which. has hedges on each side of it. Saw
him the next morning, about eight o'clock, after
he had been killed, at a house near Wllitley,. where

he 114 d been carried to. Upon cross-examination,
he said he had known the deceased about twenty

years, and was sure he was well acquainted with
the,road from witness's house to Hartley, 'where the

deceased lived. He thought the deceased .was ,so-
her, and the night was very _light. The other ntet`*
that were drinking in the company of the deceaSed
left it about a•quarter of an hour before the detreas:.

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ed did. , Thu suu,cor.whom he had. been. waiting,
c:une to witness's house .about four o'cloCk the.
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lowiog.tuoruing, but he would not let him in at that
late hour, lipon being asked if it,:was likely the
deceased could Miss his way, he replied, it Was 'not
likely.
William Hayes. stated hints& to be a private in:
the Second Regiment Of Staffordshire Militia In
August last. -He, stated that the _Prisonerniso
longed to the same Regiment at the same time: he
had_knoWn him near twelve months: Witness said;
" I was in the camp it Cullerieetts, and quartered in
tent No. 2, and the Prisoner was quartei-ed iu tent
No. 4. On Saturday night, the teth. Attgtest,"
Was on picquet .guard, and came off a little after
three in the morning, and it was then nearly light,
J went lee) My own tent, . and called up acomrade.
• (Jeseph Milkin)'togo,and get mushrooms. He got:..
up almost immediately. He was' not in our cottee
pany, nor was he in our. tent, but a short distance,
from out's. Bullock, Who was.a drannuereewas-
then beating, the reveille we, asked liitil tU gq.
with us, and he consented. The Nvitne.;s,an4
kin. then wept up the line, at some. distance from,,
13ullock„ and we met a dog with sol,rie meet in .hiS
mouth, which we toolc from him, andiook. to our
own. tent. We then went into liellocics lent, and,he!
said he. ‘VOUILI 'follow us won, and Mtilla waited
for the at it little distance. It was then light.. The.
Prisoner then canie past us, and I am quite sure
it
was he. I then asked hint if he .wiiss going to get
Mushrooms, and he replied. he .was. I told him
Was going aiso, andehet and. I were_ going- ei
but thu l'risoner- did, not wait ibr us,. but inn strait
up the hue towards Whitley ; and we else Neflt to-
ward;, Whiti:_er. I never saw liiai 144-'l. lac was,6o:‘
of the Camp t. 1,11 after the 'murder weS committed.
The Prisunef had on a grey big military, tont,
foraging cap, and a hat abov the:. Vi,"o weacte-
wards .Whitley, and overtpoh, us in -the
next field to.the camp. It wes 1 alk.in tint pointA
Out where we were to go. , We had got some
tance before we beard:any noise,. We he:tid the
neise after the Prisoner had parted with us twenty.
initiates. T,lie noise Ave heard Weire some shrieks,
as it' some omewere beat t• they very lot*
We.. thought at first it ,was sonic one of our men
that had got into a pea-field, and the owner had
caught him, and N% as beating hint. It eppeared to
U nt the distance of two or three field; length. -We
theu tein as hard a 5 ever we could, but Nee [eel nut
• gqt far betbre the shrieks ceased. Weehen heard
two blows, as if the farmer was laying on -heavy
bT.ow3 with i stick; ;And thrashing the man. We
still contiuteed to ttivailee towzirds the place whence
the sinind cure, 'end looked about to see if we
could See any of our OontradeS. We first saw
something, but coithr not -tell what it was---it was
about ee yards distaet. We went up to;, it, and
found it to be a hat, and I picked it up.. The hat
belonged to a man of our Company, of the name of
Mason, who belonged to the same tent as the Pri-
soner. It was a 'round hat, and 1 am certain it
was the same bet the Prisoner had on above his
foraging cap. The • next thing I saW was the Pri-
soner, about 9, or 14 yards trOin the place where
I picked up the bet, • .then;; '0,1)64 'hitn- by his
name. I saw him rise'frotri the dit6h Where I after-
wards found the deceased., The Prisoner' ran -along
the ditch, and jumped the hedge. When he
rose film the ditch he had no hat only;his
foraging cap, and his big coat on, the sttitte -as
he had on when we saw kiln in !the Camp.---
. We went to the spot where he ,rose from, and
at that spot I saw the dead body,: with-his-bead
tucked under his breast, his back agetirist et bank,
mid his heels w lying towards a' one side
'of his head, and on one 'hand, there was blood.
I saw a piece of wood- (like a rail) Abet Isy 'by.
one 'tide of him, and seemed to' have'beeri brdken,
and there were some spats of -blood upon it.—
We were all toy much shocked ,
I then had the bat in my hand and ,dropped •it
clown, I was so frightened., proposed to our-Corn-
-rade Malkin, to go to the etenp,, to •secs whether
the'Priconer had come back-) but, he would not.—
We the et • weet into the next field beloWe
rade Of the name of Barber cable to us in the next',
field, and:brought the hat•etehich we had left. V;.e
'then went liatk With Barbeeto,Where the-dead body
was, and then took more partiattlar notice of it..lt i
was then between. blur and five, o'clock, and- we
went to the caMp..' We„went tathe tent No. 4, and►
tbend the Prisoner there, who was laid down en
bed with his clothes on.. I said to him, ". Nrotearee-
soon ,returpOil.-7-71vas there no .Illlliill~tl()i17 :; Iles
replied, "I did not like to stop." Witneseseld n 6-1
thing more to hut. After finding theehe wits. JO
,Its tent, :\i,ent to Serjeait Cooie to confine. tile.
Prisoner, and,tgld 4til We had St-L:11. 1 tee
Was accordingly taken into custody. •- I Ody et..aw the body
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