The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-20 00:00:00

hetell'ere in. tileir disputes. • Witness set out fete
Poxtno,and on the road he overtook the deceits- 1
ed's Iforse and cart within half tulle of Eutieid ;
witness did not know whete the deceased lived ;
but he got into thecart,',and drove the horse,
giving it its head, until it stopped at a door,
which, on witness knocking, he found to be Mr,
Draper's house. Mrs. Druper naked hint where
he left her husband, and 'he told her lie was at the
!lain!-faced Stag ; she sail she hoped he would
get lodging there, as it was-late. Witness newt.
saw Mr. Draper pay for my liquor dining the
time lie was at the liald-taced Stag, and did not
see him, alter partiiig with him as above-mention-
ed, until be saw hint dead.
John Walpole, being sworn, said, he is a
butcher, and lives in Enfield ; that between eight
arid nine o'clock on Thursday evening., the lair'
instant, be &Rs in the parlour at the Bald-faced
Stag, in company with Richard Crouch, Pt.ter
Saunders, Holmes the constable, Robinson the
black, Flowers, and Peak the blacksmith, when
the last witness and Mr. Draper eamecin, with a
bull-bitch >u a.string; they had sixpenny-worth
of gin and water. Draper was rather forwardish
—they staid until half-past te6, anti quitted
,t'ae
house, and ‘vitness did not see,thern after. Ile.
saw no quarrel, ttor heard any dispute. Mr.
Turk, the landlord, WEIS baCk and lot hated
an
business. Wit'll'ESS saw the deceased pull stint a
small red pocket-bunk, hitt he does not know
what it cow:tilted ; he did, not see him change
eVern 3 uote, or ply lor any liqnor. I,Vitness
quitted the hoiute a little before twelve, but he
did tint see Draper after he left the house at half-
past ten, when he left the parlour. Witue,s can
not fell whether he left the house:by the trinit or
'back door. The well in which the body kits
10111111 is siftiate io.the rear of the house,
near the brewhouse, and is about 301,irds row
the house ; it is about seven yards front the'tont-
path, and it is rather above the level of the
,ground, being banked with the earth taken. out
of the, well. There is a kind of rail between
it
and the pathway, and witness does wit think it
possible a man might fall in by accident. Wit-
uess never noticed the well previous to this acci-

dent.
Charles Johnson) being stvorn, said,lie is a
'carman, and works for Mr. Paris; and lodge's at
Thomas Elliott's at COCk•FO,ICIs A little before
12 o'clorli on 'l`loll the Bth insrant, witness
tt as passinc along the .road. by the Bald-facet)
Stag, when he ti,tir men rush hastily out of
the hoot door, the prisoner To, it was the fore-
most ; lie sahlto the Others, " I)—n his.ohleye,
he is gone this way ; I know he is g‘lite round
Witness heard One of the qi her 'men an-
swer and.Sav, " hint we will Mill hint,' Will
hick him, and 'give him 'a good hiding." Witness
po,itive it was the prisoner Tuck he has been
frequently in his house, and 'know? him ;
ho
knew his voice the instant he iteitAl it. Witness
stew the four men turn into .the gate at the end of
the house. leading into the parif., but lie ilia twist
hnow who' they Were talking about ; he saw no
other llerson. WitneSs did not stop to listen, hitt
went home itt contrary dirt'etiott to thin whiell
took. .Witness has often seen the well: it is
in a corner of the r Irk into which they tvent.',
Mary liolliorn, alias Nutt eridge, living sworn,
said, site is servant to atein koner, 'Tisch. i
11:s lived in his service about two months; site
r...aw the deceilsed, Mr. Draper, at her master's
Itoit e the, night previoto I his (loath ; it Wtii
about half„ past nine ; Peak, Walpole, Towers,
and souse others, welt, drinking with hint in she
parlimr, NYitness did not see him ShoW a pocket-
hock, neitlrtr did she see any quarrel, nor hear
any.tlispute : she did not sea the deceased pay lor
‘any liquor, she received for !limp, and went bai
seidoill into the raloor, Witness ~tvent In
Photo irdif.past 10 o'clock,having previously light-
ed candle tor tilt . Church (I he pugilist) go to
bed. Mr. Itiihiosoo, Illaels man, wits tint in bed,
he was somewhere ilow It sr aits•\Vitl'ovsgutsipiie .t
rooming about hall-past 6, and at. 7 she tvtut to
the well for water for incakfasi., and saw tit.... body
of a Mal) in the wel), She Italy saw hi,. hit and pint
of his taco. She Was al trilled, ran to bet
mast, r, who was then lettini4 the fowls out of the
fowl-house. itobiusoo, the blade in W4l%' xtis
q0It11)151y With lilltt. Witness said, " (tune) gra-
clon4 1 !here is a wan in the. well 'Cie Olisoner
4aid, Good gracious ! I suppo,,e, it is the poor
ultt buStler...' Ile seemedintielt conitried, as was
eery t.)110, when t'al'e heard it. 'list, prisoner
Ittibinsoo went to the and she went op stairs.
Witness afterwards sally the body in the brew-,
house, and knew it to be that of fll man she 'saw
in the house the nip lit before. \lltness always
fetched 11er water from that well since she came
to. live servant in the house) %veil:is in the
field neartlie brewhuitse ;it is pt, railed roim4 ;
there is no haok ; it is nearly level whit the
grOf4(l, and it has no covering.. There were loose
pieces of wosui laid across it, leaving, a .space for
the pail to take up the water ; it was nearly filled
to ate top.
The two sityp,,,,coos, sir. J. Clerk and Mr. Henry
Holt, who hot examined- the hotly, thought the
blow (the marks olJwitieh.were on the left ear of
the deceased) would have been sufficient to cause
insensibility,. and, even death,. though he had not
fallen into the,well. They were tit opinion that
this Wound was not received by falling into the
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v. _v..
Mr. ‘David Draper, brother to the deceased, Is
a tiaptitteworker, anti byes in Etta Cid : tilt being
informed of his bruther's.dentii, on Friday morn-
ing, he went about nine o'clock to the Buld-taeed
Stag,,where he saw the prisonef, Tuck, stud-de-
sired WM -to • take ekii e of ili9 brother's pocket-
book, she ontierstood.be had a quantity ofmotes
about him, •The prisoner said be ttliposed he had
none. The-prisoner then Conducted -witness. and
his nephew, David Draper_ junior, ion .to the
deceased., to an out.tiOnse, where he allowed-them
the body. Witness siesired the deceased's son to
examine .the'pockets of the deceased, which he
did, and found only. two large pocket-hooks, 'or
ietter-cases:, which, ott examiningAfttrwArds, they
found contained only stionnom,es, tiX ectitions , and
other entice-puper, but no notes ; in his breeches
pocket Witt; (041110 rt purse, containing nine
and one halfpenny. -The prisoner informed them
that .the deceased 'had a gentile the hastier,
and was also wrestling witli a hay.alakvr, atullatt