The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-07 00:00:00

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TRIAL OF I.gitl) rePCNCIS'S 6,1111E-IcIPMER.
Geegf Ate!, was tutlicted for having feloniously
end' Agate elftly. Brown, on
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rlitareotemian second. count in the indictment,
charities Om cleaner with intent to wound and dis-
'We; a ittitlMllllittitit to 'do itinie grievous bodily
harm; and a fourth, for maliciously shooting.
• Mr: Cgreetotre tinted 'nieces* for the Prosecildion.
William- Brows is.a labourer. On the lfhk • Fr,
bleary task, be was,in company orills,teen ousts, men.
named Purdy. and Wilkins,, and they poised the
Meet', Man ptiblie-house'ell'utntls; at ten O'clock
that night'. 'They. Were' 'game to intisitiottti flier
some tools, end met Itileher. They said " good
:eight," eadthet said " good\ Night" in'tettire. He,
begueribitentedtheseforereee then a mite: When
theysget, sit him a quarter: of • mile of Wandaw °gib,
he ogped .Purdy and Wilkitteteltd.ssid-66 Gen.
Aimee, 1 tisinis yeti Ism got-sminethieg you ought
'not' to -have 46oet yos." Witheid 'then Leine op,
3enten'ille Ptisetter-eahi, Ibis islthb reseal l want,
tend if yes min I'll blare hole •threeglt you," et
On seats Aisne poiseitsg• et .bins a• doehle•berrelled
ant Wnt9Tett het! ,ie empty Wakes, which. fie
quested him,• to search, and he also stripped of
hie jacket aid other 'things, offering to have his
person seined;'' even tithed; hut he refased.-;--,
Pwrcly and Within' then got ever a gate from
the road, .and Avner,' followed.--• Upon
eliash-
.ing the. gate the Prisoner endeavoured to. poll
him haek, but he got away, and the Prisoner ,cried
out Stop; or blow a hole through you."--'•'•Wit-
nets,. however, went on, and imtnedistely after the
Ptieoeer • fired and he fen ; 42 shot entered bits
thighs end legs, injuring the leaders, and. eventually
eontrsetiog one of his legs: He was covered with
blood. lie called out to his friends to come and pick
him up, mild when one of them epproached for that
purptese,'llle Ptieotter reclaimed, 66. You thief, if
. !oil cometsigh•hitn I'll make a bole in you."--All'en
then said, 66 You rascal, you are not shot enough,
I've a great mind to discharge the other barrel
through your heart."—The witness replied, 66 got
God's sake don't Mr. Allen,. for I am bloode
enoegh."—lie then went away, without offering him
she least assistance; his companions also left him for
feariof being shot. After laying some time on the
ground be got up, and crawled as well as be could to
Putney.
Cross•examined by the Cosmos Seto Earn. —Wit-
ness had bien a labourer iu the service of Lord
Spencer, but had left it of his own accord. He was
once very ill, and some of his friends estisted
Among those who did so was the Prisoner, but
he thought he was in some measure bound to do
it, as he used to work for him q nights. 'Witness
lived at Emil's-court, near Brompton, a distance
of about four miles or more to Wandsworth:—
There was a nearer way to this place than to go
round by the Green Man at Putney, bet it was wet
across the fields. Ile admitted there might be a bard
road somewhat shorter, bet it was a very dirty
one also. It was to one Ambrose, w!io lodged at the
George, Wandsworth, he was going for a spade and
another article for digging. The basket was not in-
tended for any illegal purpose, nor was it what was
tried by poachers. lie was convicted attest two years
ago for having two pheasants in his possession, bet
he does not know what is meant by "going oat at
'night;' The two men *who were with him were never
out with him on any improper business at night.—
Purdy lives at Waltham.green, and they all got
home at eleven o'clock at night. Wilkins, be
believes, lives at Hammersmith; he bad been to
Cheam, and they met him at the top of i.'stttey
town ; his object in bringing the basket with him
was to get some butcher'e meat at Wandsworth;
he was sure that there were butchers' shops open
there as late as ten at night. Wilkins had a number
of sticks with him, but witness did not think they
were intended for poaching • he did not know the
tae of them himself, but Wilkins said they were
lower sticks ; he was a jobbing gardener. Witness
*es at work the very day the thing happened,-at a
Moe Hutchinson's, of F.arl's.coort. Witness could
eely attribute the Pritioner't conduct to an old grudge.
He told him he woold go with him to Wandsworth
and be searched. Purdy had a stick with him, but
it was not a bludgeon. He could not swear to its
I particular size, but he could swear that Purdy never
raised it against the game-keeper. lie could solemnly
say, that he was not out on that night for the purpose
of poaching ; he never set a net in his life. When
be was shot he was in) be foot-peth, and before that
bed 'never been riff the high-road. He had been, in
tftgular employment all the winter, and up to the
-day of the transaction in question.
Wm. Purdy gave evidence to the same effect.
Jatees 4eeepsi, the Clerkrei_Uoion-hall,. said, at
'the Prisoner was isveraght to the Office by warrant
lender the capital cheer, but the Magistrate after.l
wards edmitted him to bail fora misdemeanour. I
Mr. Baron Wolle. —Then the Magistrate, be be
who he may, acted esieetnelp wrong.
The Prisoner, in his defence, said, that he saw the
three men milli, night of the 17th evidently on the.
watch for poaching. He taxed them with the inten-
'on; and wanted to stop them, but they resisted, end
be was compelled to arrest the course of Brown.—
When be bad done re,- another of the petty wielded
over him a bludgeon. Ile did not know Brown for
he was concealed in a brewer's cap. Had he known
him he would nut have fired, for he bad been out with
him at nights before. That the party had intended
poaching was-evident from sticks being found for set-
ting nets and wires at some distance.
Charles Veuables, Ksq. steward to Lord Spencer,
produced the eppientment of the Prisoner to be
game-keeper over the tremor of his Lordship, end
proved that the spot in which the transaction took
place was within that manor. The witness gave the
Prisoner a good character.
Witnesses were etemitted to prove that the sticks
and net .were such as were used in entrapping game.
Severe% witnesses were- called to speak to the cha•
meter of the Prisoner, and they concurred in stating
that he was a man of good temper and humanity.
The record was likewise pat in of the Prosecutor
(Brower) having been fitted c year since for hating
two pheasants in his pessessit n.