The Sun.
London, England, 1811-03-27 00:00:00

be s~tw none: lad .went-- the Same road as the last
wit rteS,es Went in go home.
Martin Hewn, t 403 at church on the ifitli'of De-
cember ; wt,-,.ntitoine the same way as Jenner's
lads; he. passed the boys; saw. no true afterwards
untti I.e arrivril his own house; he saw no paper
lying ort the road, and he thought, if there bad been
ss y, it as prehaair• he would have seen it ;he saw.
Mr. Bingham at the Turnpik,!-gate ; this was about,
a quarter of an hour after he. had paSseal t he. lads.
Sarah Jenner, Wife of Richard' Joiner, and Mo..
;her et. the first witness.—Oct the ltith Decembi.r,
her son John gave her a letter (produced) the
wn
for ,v, -s not then quite dry.. ;Her buSband was then
in London, and did not return until the Thursday
10,; became home she gavelt to him.
After dinner she saw W. l'homasJehner's wife and
Mrs. Bingham : she ...hewed the • letter to Mrs,
Bingham; she ,observed, upon reading the letter.,
that she supposed•some of the Foresters had dropped
it, as they went to church. Her lanntly,an4 the pri-
soner's flintily lived upon very friendly terms. •
Mr, Richard Jenner deposed hw was a farmer at
Maresfield, occupying the Dairy Farm, on Which
glee re .oi, barns; oxen, sheep, corn, &'c. He is
called by his familiar ((lends '' DiclC' He war in
London when the letter in question was found. He
has known Mr. 13. five or six years, and their fami-
lies liVed no friendly teeters, and be should have
thought him the last person to do him an _unfriendly
att. He apprehended himself to. be meant by
4'. Dick" in the littler, and that the threats were di-
.2t eted against his lands and cattle, &c.
.He has had
frequent correspondence with Mr: B. and is well
acquainted with his hand writing. (Looking at the
letter)—Ho believes it to be Mr. B.'s hand-writing.
. He said he thought it wan Mi. Bingham's the ma-
nicht his wife put it into his hands, betbre be knew
the contents, When he read the contents, be could
not think his friend could do such a thing ; but. from
the look of -the hand-writing only, he hltotalo believe
it to be Mr. BifightiM'S. But there is a little attempt
at disg,ttise : there is a singularity which runs
throughltis natural. writing—he contracted Ri. Inc
Rte •ard always ; he always abridged the Witness's
name in,that munitt-r, it is the same in the letter
in question. G's were also of a peculiar cast,
The address on 'the letter appeared. to -ce .originally
Jointer, but the J. aprared to be altered to a G, and
was written in Bingham's usual manlier, The wit-
tress pointed out several oilier letters as resernbiing
Mr. Bingham's deter of writing. He
called on Mr.' Bingham tree Sanday following for
advice bow nest to find out the author. of tin :letter.
Be advised him to go to shops in the neighbourhood
toliearch for paper of tire 'sue water-marks. If!
searched and- could not find any He a ens to shops
and bought ,to conipare.. He has since seen paper
. with the •sante water-xnark, " Evans and' Sons,
1806." He has seen suterai (and produced siiiric).
Be received Iberia trom-.Mr, Bingham one Was a
plan for some land, wilichAr. Bingham had given
him to shew his lsodleo. Others were rotes troin
Mr. Diogniun, and 11,1 ts tor the boys' schooling, etc.
visited at Mr. Itinhain's in Christmas week
he wilted him- about the letter, and said, you are
riot " shoaled" yet. 'thee witless felt sore Awe: it,
' and said to Mr. Bingham, ": By God, if f hint
bear
so good an opiiori of you, 1 should have thong! 1.,
that you wrote' the letter." He turned away at 81
laugher. ll.' hart sliest th... letter to his neigh-
,
bnurs Find trten 4tild it was a common topic of
-conVersation.
Oecrosi.xat,ineon, he said, he never, left the.
letter tri :iiughant's `Thai witness first sets.; '
petted that the letter CittV. (rein some of tin Fe-
rosioh, Mr. fliotoom ~aid fie ri,spected one Gold-
spring, trot he ('.eite.a.) river said he believed it
cs'oldspring's haud-writing. I was Col molly a
threatening letter dropped in the parish, 411,1 a fag-
got-stack had Ocon fired, He had formerly received
a letter wiling him nick-names. It may have said
that he susped,d the Foiesters. He went to Lewes,
where a man of the name of Best was in custody,'
and he did say that he thooght the lolfer might 6nm!
from
pro Foresters, and that Best could tell some-
thing about it. Mr. R. has been Curate many years
of MaresfiLld, and had always duly performed his
Cletital duties. ' hid also been instrumental in
faunding a Charity School for the Poor., There had
been lately tuany itielosturs in the I,'otest, Mkt,
had, been throw it down by order of the 1..,0rds of the
Manor, . • .
Richard fainter at Boxied; believed then
letter ti lie Biagio:1)1s .11311d-Wthirtg, It Viai not
quite his natural hand, hut will; partly disguised..
Mr. J. Knipe, resident at Mareslield, believed the
letter to be tire priiionyes hand-writing. . This, wit-
ness prodnettd several papers And aceourits which be
"bad received from the prsoner, which bore the wa-
ter-mark. of: F.,vats and Son, 1806.7,
John ,Nlayllara, shopkeeper at Mnrestield, had
had.,dealings with HinAhami and believed the letter
to be his
Robert Turner, Attorney,
,at Lewes, Mr. Astree,
and Mr. Susan, all Said .thpy believed the letter to
be the hand-writing of the., 'priSoner,
l'his closed the case fur ehe prosecution.
Mr. klaithan then read a written defence, in
which he very feelingly rtnnenenteil on :hjs Unbappy
sit uatioa, aint argued the improb,i,d;ty of his writin4
a threatening letter to ilia friend ,;-; about any :mo-
tive. He obterved, the lads th:ither of ihtm said
they saw tire letter drop, froti.t him, and u had been
dropped by those who -went b,:ihre him, it was
probante liiii,ll,orse, in :a deep sandy rerld, hadkick„
od it tip, and then the 1 saw is.--With ropers to
tire proof of hand-writing, he, observed, that this
OUT, had been a subjea of conyersation in all the
petty clubs in the country, and he feared with the
best intention to think right, many ,wh first o.had at
dbubted had waked themselves to a belief of tin;
hitter being his hand-writitik. :He alluded to Ins
numerous family, atui-prayo the LeaCted Judge
to
observe upon' the imprnbribiltly tat the evidence,
which, from his learning 'and eApco,:ence, ltcs wag
better able than a man in Ilia own awfurSiii33.
Con.lira . .
Counsel then called the following Vild-
PeAcs
Air. John Reed, a 11,tationer,.flow.lanc,

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