The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-17 00:00:00

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wee betterond asked bias to 'orgies him. Mt. Bridle
replied that be did set thiak be was well asesgiseasd
left the tell. In the evenings penes of the same of
garter came up to the solitary ult. sad unlocked it.
And took the witness oat into the —Cartel
arts a convict for heree-stealisg. • wits's' was
set dowri on a chair, anti his hair est and bead shaved by
Carter, who pet cot a tubule, blister, and after that. a
cap over it, and tied it down, tike, the tarokey. was
present and assisted. Pike put the strait jacket on the
witness before his bead was shaved. He continued with
the tortnring blister on, tied down by the cap. sod with
the strait jacket on is bed duritig the sight. The pain
wee jut the same as needles Aid pins and pen-keives !w-
-ipe run into him: .0e the vest morning Carter wed Pike
came Into him, and Carter took of the blister and said it
had not rose, and pat it on again, and tied it dews
co before. The 'Wait waistcoat was taken of to
• allow the witness to pot .on his clothes, when it was re-
placed. His hands were toadied and the pain on his
bead increased nntil 12 o'clock. when be cried oat with
pain, and robbed his head against the wall, and the cap
and blister came off. Pike came ap and asked the wit-
ness what was the matter with him that be cried out?—
Witness said he was very bad, and requested very mach
to see Mr. Bridle. • Pike went away and did not isms
again until three o'clock, when perceiving that the fills
. ass was without the blister, he asked witsess what be
• had done with it ? Witness said he hail robbed it off, and
• abound him where it was. Pike said, "there's d—d
lm-
tedeaee!" andiaid he world go aid tell Mr. B.,and get
bin, to put another blister on. He did not return
until seveno'cloek, in the mean time the witness remain-
ed with his head exposed, and without dressing. It was
afterwards dressed, and witnen was kept confined as be-
fore. Ott Sunday morning Tie. Bridle bad hies dews
before the door of his house when the witness begged
him to be pleased to forgive him (Meuse). Mr. Bridle
said he did not think he was yet well irough, and that
he shoold try another blister. Witness was taken back
stain, and in about four days after la• saw Mr. Bridle
and begged hint to be allowed to go to work. Mr. Bridle
said he should if he would confess that be had stoles the
parse. The witness declared that he was as innocent of
the offence asa. baby, and be was taken bock again. He
remained until the de y he was releised in his strait
waitscoat, which was taken off only to allow him to dress
sad undress. Ike was confined for a week after. He
was allowed only bread and water. He plated it by his
bedside before his strait waistcoat was pot on. After-
wards his hands were confined, and he was obliged to
kneel down and eat it as he could from the bedside. He
suer Mr. Bridle at the end of the week, and age's beg-
ge Ito be released from solitary confinement. Mr. Bridle
told the vileness be must beg the pardon of Mr. Davis,
the turnkey, for what he had done. Witness did not
know of any thing that lie had done to Mr. Davis, but
he begged his pardon and was released. He was sever
taken to aoy Magistrate.
Ctose-examined.—No Magistrate visited him daring
his confinement. Three days after be was released. be
went before two Magistrates. He bad been six or germ
times punished for offences diming his confinement. He
remembered having ran a knife is tbe knee of soother
person. It was a bit of a loud. He never did d—n all
the Justices of the county, and wish them all at bell.
All the rest that he bad said was as tree as this. He
can't tell how old he was when be first went to prison,
He was at Bristol gaol before be was at liehester. He
gild not remember, and did not wish to say for what of
he was first committed. lie did not then live with
il• uncle anti gut, because he was io Court. He re-
peiLl this answer to the question several times. He
went to live with his uncle and aunt a fortnight ago.
He received his subprena a fortnight ago. Before be re-
ceived it be had lodgings in Great Gardens near Law-
ford's-gate.
What is the meaning of living span the etwesNosistr.
Ing upon the cross! I suppose you know it as well as
me, but I have not lived that sort of life sines 1 have
been out.
What wereyoa at Ilchester gaol for?-1 du% think
proper to tell.
The blister did not, he continued. •begin to go like
pen-knives into his head until the dead of the
The question was again pot to him, as to what he was
in gaol for at thhester. He replied, that it was for
hossebreak,rig, and that he bad been found guilty, and
sentenced to death, hut had been since pardoned. He
had never, either to Charles Marshall, John Pipe, John
Wright, or John Pool, d—d the Magistrates of tne
country to hell. He never said to Ann Wright that he
knew a thing or two, and that the blister did not pain
him so much as be had said, but that he would get well
paid for it, as lie bad been pot up to it. He oever said
oany one any thing of the kind.
PMr. Cole, the Clerk of the Peace, produced the Oc-
currence Book, in which it was entered, that on the 9th
of December flardiner had been ordered into solitary
confinement for picking the pocket of a fellow prisoner,
and for pretending to be sick, when he was continued
in confinement. Other entries were made respecting
rii. orisoner, atatiog that be was still continued in the
cell for insolence to Mr. Davis, the keeper, and for still
conlieming to feign sickness. tie was liberated, the
book stated, on the sth of December, upon expressing
contrition,
Mr. Bryer stated, that in 1820 he was the surgeon of
the lichester gaol. He kept a jon:aal of the prison.—
He knew a person samed Gardiner. Witness had on
the day in question made up the medicine of the gaol,
and was going away when be heard the door open, and
Mr. Bridle called up to him, and asked him how the
people of the gaol were. Witness said be had nothing
extraordinory. Mr. Bridle said "if yea can cure your
patients I cannot cure mine." He added, that be bad
one man who wa.. very troublesome, and asked the wit-
ness for a strong black dose. Witness said be had oo
such medicine. Brittle then said, what do yon think of
blister? Witness replied—Well, yes eau hate a blister,
and as his complaint appears to be in the bead, yea can
apply it pretty high on the pole. Wittig', spread the
blister, and left it.
Di•l von not go in to visit the man 2—No; I DM sorry
to say I did not.
la his Journal. which was produced, was the entry:
" November 21, 1820.
" A blister to the head for Thomas Oardiner"
He did not make this entry at the time.
Mr. Bridle asked me whether I had entered that blis-
ter for Oardiner's head ?-1 told him not. He said you
bad better. Upon that I made the entry. I did not
hear on the 21st of November, that Oardiser had had a
straight jacket on. It was on the 23J that I beard of it.
By the JuDoe.—Ton sail you were tarry that
_you
had not visited Gardiner; did you ever visit bits —1
sever
• This win the case for the Crown.
114. WILLIS 'wrote in tears to address the Jury.*
bebaltof the defendant, and said, that after all that his
persecuted client bad suffered—after the coarse of ca-
lumny and artifice with *high he bad lees eisited, he
was net ashamed that his feelings overpowered him
wises be rose to address them is reply to the wretched
case that had been offered to them, for be knew that
there was scarcely a person in Court who did not sym-
pathise with his feelings. The Lamed Coitus' (still
eentissaing deeply affected) gave a history of the life
of his client, from his first uteri.' the Sonsersetshire
Fineable's, to relieve so aged father of the burden
which his continuous at boom would occasion to his
parents, of his pressistios to be utjeant.major, until
is less than twenty moults, from his extraordisary Me-

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