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• WpoJ, was with witnea.wben the conversation tbOk
place in the strong room. fie Wit near enough 'to
hear it, btit he did not know that such was the fact.'
Leary &mild not be aware that he was listened to.
* Pima: lir Carthy.examined.
• The witness said, he wash boot and shoe-maker,
has known Leary almost since he was born.' The
prisoner sent for him to the lock=up room, in'Hatton-
garden. He fully corroborated the important evi-
dence of Thisteltou. He told him he believed him"
guilty, but,he said he was innocent of the miirdsr.-.....'
He said that 50 persons had seen him go to his work,
and among them a man .named Richard White.—
Mr. M. asked him, why that man did not come and
prove that ? " but suppose he did so. how could you
prove you were in bed by ten o'clock ?"--" There's
where'll am lost ; if I could prove that I should he
free." Witness then said, he Should confess, and not
allow two of his countrymen to be punished for his
guilt ; and added, he had no means of getting over
it : to which the prisoner replied, .P None, but one ;
and that is, to Ax it on somebody else." Witness
asked, "On whom?" He said,." I think when I sat
in the Union Arms, with Mrs. Clifford, I felt in her
right-hand pocket a hammer." Witness told him he
was the man who had committed the murder, and
that be should have no assistance from him (the
witness).
Crorprxennined.—Leary said; 66 I know I shall be
hanged i but when 1 am hanged, I wish I may go
to Hell if I know any more of the man's murder
than you (the witness) do."
Re-examined—The phrase Leary used was," I am
lost there, unless somebody comes forward to prove
that," namely, that he was in bed by 10 O'clock,
Shuttlroorth proved, that the holes in the earth
were likely to.have been made by one of the hammers
belonging to Leary:
J Beciett,Togrnity of Cold4athAlds Prison, ekamined.
. Deposed, that Leary said," Faith, I'll tell you the
truth." It was 'taken in writing, and has been al-
ready before our Readers ,in the form of his confes-
sion. In it he charged Mrs. Clifford with commit-
tag the murder, and that he was present; at the dis-
tance of three yards. Leary described the implement
With which it was done, arid witness got it from Mr.
i lielstone, the prisoner's master. Witness asked him
about his knife, but lie denied, for taro days, having
any knife. But, on the Wednesday, he confessed that
he had a knife at home, with a black handle and a
broken point.
f/yam Barnett, examined.
He swore, that Clifford came by himself to pur-
chase the hat, alid was then without a hat • he paid
four shillings, and got change of a.itote. As he was
receiving
•the change, the woman came in. The wo-
man laid hold of the hat, and Clifford ran away from
her. She had asked hitch to give her the change,
but he refused. They had the appearance of having
quarrelled. _ -' '

H. Singleton, examined.
She deposed, that the Cliffords lodged with her;
but gave no materlal evidence, 'except that Mrs. Clif.
ford said in the mcfning, that she thought Clifford
was gone to Ireland. Witness said she did not know
that they quarrelled.
Mary Burke, called Again, said Leary wore black
hreeches, and that Clifford did not speak English.
Mr. Ujiltas, a surgeon, deposed as to the wounds
found upon Clifford being the cause of his death.
William iirmarong, one of the keepers of the House
of Correction, produced the different declarations of
Leary, which were read.
William Slattery swore, that he came to London be-
fcre the Cliffords; he knew Mrs. Clifford in Ireland,
and me: her by accident in London; Clifford only
spoke Irish ; they were not in the habit qf quarrel-
ling ; Clifford often said, that London did not agree
with him and he would go home to Ireland. He
never saw Leary after seven o'clock that evening, till
he saw him at Hatton-Garden ; be went to bed. at
half-past nine o'clock, and did not awake all night ;
Mrs. Clifford did not speak to him.

The Prisoner being now called upon to know, if he
had any defence to offer, hehantled a paper into Court,
which was read. It was very incoherently written,
and without containing any justificatory matterd
dwelt rather upon what the prisoner considered the,
insufficiency of the testimony delivered, together with
other topics quite irrelevant. He hoped to prove
some parts of the evidence false, and if he did, he then
hoped the Court and Jury would acquit him. It
stated that he was in very low spirits, because he had ,
not had the same subsistence in prison, nor his usual
exercise. He hod no friends and ho money. He was
a native of tribe/id, and his father was a schoolmas-
ter: He himself knew how to write, and therefore he
was always called Mr. Leary, in Ireland. He men-
tioned.that to shew that he was not entirely ignorant.
He protested he did not kill the man, nor did he lend
any assistance to its being done ; he never Lad any
quarrel with him, never kaput with him, and what
motive, therefore, had he to murder him ? It was not
likely he should commit the horrid deed for money;
sucji a thought never entered his head ; he had never
been accustomed to covet other people's money ; he
had always been honest, as his masters could prove.
He was not a thief, and if he was convicted, it must
be upon better testimony than was now before the
Jury. He complained much of the newspapers ;
they had inserted-things to his prejudice, and altered
them from the truth ; what they called his confession
was no such thing ; it was not a confession. On the
night of the murder lie said he was tipsey ; Clifford
was drunk ; so were both the women. He again com-
plained of the nes; spapers ; they had altered the facts,
and said that the public examinations before the Ma-
gistrate proved Leary's guilt ; they did not do so ;
he hoped these statements would have no influence
uptet the Jury, who would decide upon the evidence
before them ; his Lordship would tell them that was
the only way to give a proper verdict in his case.—
Many persons had been unjustly condemned ; Hollo-
way and H.,ggerty for instance The large hammiT
'was his master's property.; it had been left nut by the
men, and lie being the oldest labourer, it was his
place to see that it was not lost ; he could not put
it into the shed under the door, he therefore took it
home for safety. The other hammer could riot have
been covered with coals, as was basely asserted bythe
newspapers, for he had not coalirenough go-cover it.
There was no blood on his coat, nor had.. iii. been'
scoured. Cooke and Thisselton ,itatecLomatsly
things about him which never took place. They were
always telling him he would be banged, that he should