The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-16 00:00:00

DENBIGH.

Genrf,re Thomas was indicted for the wi"tal murder
of Mr. G. Ilerrtann, of Holt.
Ilsrri,mr, the wife of the denote.% wa• at the
Mtn. of a friend at a little befits, nine o'clock, from
throe ske w•tit towards she Red Lion, with the its.
tentinn of let. hien home her husband ; she did tint
rake • 1;01 with her, as she observed s glimmering
. f.orn the moon ; met her hatband a short dis.
fancy. f.um the dons ; walked together eight or ten
• art's. when the Jereased stopped as if he had heard
roTrlisliog, she went OD for a yard Of two ; when they
arm opposite a gap is a potato. field. eh* being at
'l.e same c!issance before him, a gun was fired by some
woe. end the deceased fell. Mr.. 11. toned round,
nt hwy.:pa he was shot, bet thinking be was nide
alarmed ; she, however, turned her head again, and
immediately saw a person in the gap, as if rising ;
the was then four yards from tbegats.Thedeceased bad,.
cork leg, slid when be walked inade• stamping noise;
the person who stood at the gap must have known
the d ea! ; pecan that she believes that person
the Prisoner at the bar, for he walked with a
bulk or stooping in kis shoulders; she did not,
however, see his fate, hot merely his bark and
manner of walking, be fall fins under the
ledge; did not see him before he began to ren ; ran
straight op the ponies butt as fast is he could, hulk-
ing his back ; did not go straight up, bet 'sent him-
self down ; Aimed him ton shout eight or ten
yards, i.e then got out of sight ; when she had raised
her hoshand in a sitting posture, Thomas Rowland
and his boy came up. and a great many others soon
alter; the deceased was not in the habit of going to
the Red (.inn; never went but on holiness; he mea.
cured buildings; be always scorned home the same
r. ad ; the person who came from the hedee was
Coarse Thomas, is sore of it; hen no doubt in the
least ; when he row op the held' sew his whole back ;
his clothes were dark; at that time it was light, the
moon was out very clear, bet small; observed the
mono both before she ease nut of the boos, and
when she joined her heshand ; wee in the habit of
going to meet lin husband at the Red Lion, when it
fees dash always took a lantern; tier husband's hat
was not briteght with the body, Thomas Barrows
broeght it els that night.
Cross nem:tied by Mr. Tenne.—`Talked side
by side by her he.bind until this happened; be
slipped and she went on • little ; had just passe:', the
gap when the accident happened, she was first and
her host•ond a little behind her; her husband was
VIP! Pi...hint the gap whew the gun went et; be could
nor be nose than • yard or a lard and a half behind
when the gun was tired; was flidlitenvil. sad eastern,
ii.oe Lefure she could turn heiself, w 1 en she did, sew
her husband lying on his face nit the ground ; called
" Gems." several 644.5 ; w sited • little to tee
if I.e wuald answer, and " George" again;
then the man fan from the side nest the gap and
ent straight up the boil; ran from the side of the
~zap which was nest the house; is sure (;eorgeThomas
the man, always said it was be and no other
ono; alms)s told every burly so.—Q.,And every
thing you hove said to..alsy is as true as that ? Yes;
never told any one she bad soy doubts 'boot it ; only
saw the mart's back ; never said to any one she saw
no man at all ; newer said any 11 ing to any one about
a men of the name of Thome, Gee ; never bed soy
conversation with Hannah Chadwick nor with Edw.
Q Yon made use of thew words, " I
saw no man, bet heard a rustling among the potato.
tcrePa, •• if there were I men conning up the
potatoes:" A. No, 1 never did ; nor any thing to
that purpose.—Q. Yoe never Said, it I shall ever
think of Thomas Gee to my dying boar, for the
words he said at the Cock, at Wrealsaos ; bet I most
1.. Id my tongue shout it, as a person has told me be
eta. at the time asleep on the screen, at Alice Rose's,
Farntlen ; and as be was there I most lay it on
Georg. Thomas; for if I put it on ten, I shall bring
ins self into a scrawl ?" A. I will take my oath I
newer said any thing like any part of it ; never said
any thing to Hannah i.mad wick about its being dark;
icier said to George Rowland., " if it is not Geo.
'('humus, there is another I think of, and that is Thos.
t.ee;" never said that 'hew, the fare by the fish of
she powder; never said, " I do net know who did it
the night was so dark." I did not tell you that I
had bad no conversation •ittl` Edward Jones.

Cum. Jo-mt.-41e more allusive to year evl.
.'.nee Mrs. Ilestivim, yos cattainly did my in of ►im,
and I sill read, to you what you stated.—[Nis Lord-
-2414) then seed it, and the whores earosed vary meek
4 °caused while be was so doing.]—Q. by Ike Chief
J.stire, yen Now take epos' you to sweet t►at. dm
Prisoner at the hat is Om man who iced tbeipso ? A.
I Oleo I am iati.fied abet what the Corsair took dams
was what I told whoa I was Wore him; it was the
fame I have told to-day. I swore distinstly sad pa.
russet] that Thomas was thr aeon. I did not sweat it
:mpr•ased my mind be was the maw, bot positively
be was the man.

Thomas Rowlands. by Mr. Coitserr.—Lives at
Holt ; remembers his beating a gen► go offers the tith
of Sopteasher last ; was about mid-way of his garden;
it is on the rood from the Red Lion to the Cberch•
green ; beard the report of the gun about nitro o'cloek ;
'trim on a Sunday evening; *es going towards the
Ilvd Linn In fetch up the horses ; towards the spot
%here the gen was fired from; the distance from the
price where he was and the place from w bete the gen
was filed was shout 100 yards ; when be ammo op
.lire. Harrison had got hold of her hatband by the
'boulders supporting him, an .ir e elm was there; she
a •het.l tae to hold him up as she wag SON he outset.
; could not tell is, It hat state he was it was
..tl4lk ; Mrs. Chilli:set came on and frtul.eil a light;
was rather frightened at liiv vaaniivation at Holt. and
s,iii not soy then that Mrs. Harrinin observed her hot.
Laud was shot over at. gate ; recollected that espres.
• slier the eireminalion was all over ; the Rat•
right Le right aids or more from the plane where
fir. Harrison ilia snot from. it was on the same side
• the road ; he was I) ing across the read, his foot
is. OM 10 Ilse plus where he was shot from, Liv
bead was neat In to the other side of she road ; went
,ay after. firs. Cholliner brooglit a light ; it was
it enough to fetch the hones.
:rnes.essminerl by Mr. Lulea..-1f was so dart
ar.dlc • as fecisel