The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-01 00:00:00

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4.34 in the don, and t purchased a seem, ea-. ,
, • into a sa,,s,„
to. , in going al,ong N. esegate-street, ti went i *bevel le
tting oleo' tib win
is tasks& Ina" hrusitt. 1 with theh old coin, and solo it tor 15 or 16.. ea_
I *chased e pair of !KV-trete. •latledon was .4. oar hasd*
as the
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me all the time, and slept with me itt my brets.tibs • . figgithlt Cie
dme to see if he had been :in Tottenhain.court.rosd. In the morning my bro.
he came samoesstion :kille direction gardens i
'her Richard and Hazleton went with me to 04 'lateorald Is
fowl I "
le of tlekg"Partydet,Per: once.weil White Horse Cellar. .1 gave Hazleton e shileea ask*. 1111 i
Wes tertai
I looked towards Mr. on parting, as he wilts going to Greenwich.
Jug the pt
the next morning I arrived at Basingsteke, ohms
of a I espected my wife, but there was a leiter from der at Gr
:n
it usranwi n g
somethingro untl,to I oo k
Indateed.
Looking more minutely, saying she was unwell, but if better she'd he them
thof on
went to it and friend it by the Tuesday. Ott t. e Tuesday I received a lett',
saying she was put to bed on the Souiday eminent Concernin,
7g one corner,
In the vii
and so
with a son, and asking me to give him is twine. Thl
ll
bogie, e
Likewise, there was in a
,casoe linen.erl sa I
w did a
weather now was very unsetli .ed,.reitts soul high
ably well,
winds, and detained me so long at Basingstoke; bet
osissint.
sic rings, as I was with my brothers, I hew my business was
ken such
buckles, us Spanish pieces of
der as it
I, two watches, (one gilt, not so particular in town. I was there a fortniot.
ate. I g
r spectacles, and an eye.- I came to town on Friday, and brother
my Richard
beuk, co
he bundle at the time, as and myself went to a relation's to ten and sapper. and
e ft m the
A were not honestly come remained not ell night on Friday and Saturday. Oar
I told hi
I may as well conceal cash became rather low, and I did not like to go to ,I
13133 ire he
re. Little, at she time, my brother John's to ask for money. 1 therefore*
boise the
onied to. I moved the went with the rings, spectacles, and eye-gloss, and -
sway wit,
11 went to Mr. Litton's, pawned them at three different 'hope, in my owg
rove my
the murder. I did not name and -where I lived. but bail I known .; p
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at what I found. About whose property it was, 1 should never have pledged trowsers.
(ere fur a pot of beer. I them in my own name. I intended to art them oat , . thee in s
the night was eery foggy, of pledge as soon as I had-heels to Peckham, tam on my tv
old my brother what had cash to release them. Likewise I left a watch l (late bet
I was its time for tea, pledge fora few shillings, and relemitel it when I re.
' gather, I
the Friday morning fol. turned from Peckham I wont to the Tiger's Ilesil at , and had
Greenwich,on M onda s evening. hat bad not cash to pay
ming out of the country . out, bet
ring back to Greenwich on for what I had, ear is it paid now. In the nonniug be could
I wrote a letter to Mr. after I went to Deptlerel--to tell my wife's relatioss wall, bei
eason of it. On the Wm. that she was put to bed. • 34;5. Goddard said the - and I go,
'homes ,was going to town, could not thick what was heron., of me, never . self very
im. I told him I had no hearing where I nes, and a letter was there from : I took b
baletnit promi...:d to come my wife, in asiewerto not I wrote from lissittestoke. t; consider'
,at nine o'clock. I west Mrs. Goddard said; hearing of this murder' is -(r`i the bloo
times, enquiring for him, Greenwich, mid not hearing from us, she ...fluid not 7 trowiers
to there. My brother then think the reason of it. I showed Mrs. Greiff ail my ' they was
n. As I pasiOng across wife's letters, end she was saci..iied ; not Ms. Gode; to Mr. 1
4t__Xtre_gaiednot be much dard said, ' Charlie, I think it would be more pro. likeseise.
.then .I.lswiet and George, dent for you to break off that young follow', (11,,m,• se.tfie c
country-to-day' He had ton's) company, as ynti are now Mir fief', and should me, and 1
m at (:haring.cross by 12 he thinking of doing some good ler yourself.' 1 tolt save nevi
husittess to do in the city, him he was a young man that lived at Mr. Parker's, of blood
std not have time to see my of Greenwich, when I lived at Stetrinson's. I said I blood or
Im-court-road, therefore I neser knew any harm of him, hot that I would
break off his company. I thought he must hats istall Hail
he way to him. Brother
and *hit
st -home) and me came to had some reasons for this, but it did not strike me he s or two n
night was very dark and had been examining my box, for I thought he would tree, an(
not take soch a
Ids from the Nelson's Head liberty, even though the boa was nit - Heed kn
to step into the ditch.— locked. I left their house for Peckham, where L vise my
is.) My brother Tom lent was told my wife's relations had been looking for roe,
and had been told I was don in the couutry with
be poi I.
s. I put the two watches o
lisPileaft
ty box, at Peckham, on the my wife. My sister Godwin said. she Ind 'very en. going fo
sent to town. I gave the comfortable dreams shout mi., and rook! pot tell what *sin of
'other Tom, as he bought Wils the reason of it, or why .1 stopped away so
lopg, as I said I would not he q week. I.teld beat ibis to p
am seeing my brother off,
bare net
having lain in, and then went en's Mt. missile I
the White Horse Cellar, 1 of my wife's hav
otter'', at an . flue on the Godwin, who was at isotk. I went then to my bog, science.
if the Haymarket—then I and took-our, to the best of my• recollection, 71. a. I left St(
-cross, and took coach and then, wish my brother Roletril,
.west to Lotto bee beet
ime to Mr. Walnisley, and don, acid r.-leased the watch thes I left in a pe'rson's faunae'
I there bed been people , hands for what he lent fee. I stopped a eight-ow it, Par. S
' he was glad I wrote to two in town; and went was, Oritors at Covent. Waal (
ght, end teas at Mr Bird's garden. I went again to the pity itO* Sourder- which d
morning. I then went to-. night, to See Rob Roy petroimo4. . I afterwards happy it
itions, and there I wrote slept with R.sberi Cdx, a young roan I awry jeant ha.
lould expect her at Basing. well. We eentio St. -share{ Olt the seettli, sod stronger
swing. I enclosed her 51. afierwards *ma into a public Is-use in Windmill-. upon to
red it at the Greoowig, street, where I saw an acceunt in the Psisevithat partmight I
ie Saturday_ to lodge at tln of the property was friund,wert Ito' 'movie in custody, circomal
but that there was one wanting. 'did tiro then suspect
eton, in the eseising, called but the
,t, him for sevetal days. that the property was iiIIIIIrd on me. I weld atiolise the indi
(1 Hodges, the constables day and night with Cos, and afterwards going out murder
they bad information at with him to purchase a coat, we went into a public. The ma
on and me, sled that I had house, and there I saw, for the first time, an ace hours o
count thst the property was found on Charles'Hussey.
sly. I said I had, and that of regu
er, who had died. I told This struck me with horror to think' had concesterk * The tui
1 I received it; that it •aa these things, and let nobody know of them. I did oven; .
not know what to do. I thought, as I had conceal.
ice, 13vrnard's lien, 1101. was abs
ed them in such a manner, and wit having any proofs :
hear all about it. Mrs. beard I
the lick
oat there was enquiring of my finding them, I dill not know taloa may bothe
s on the night trouble and conlequence of it. I was there, I left R. Coe full of ' access*
trouble about it, and went to the Dun Cow pobliee L
t the Mitre, or any otherdoubt I
house, at Knightsbridge: on the way I thought of a Or
e taken notice of silly pro- - the cric
Ira. Wamsley said, I was at thousand things. I left there and wrist to a house iw
of g
aits
opposite the Gra,.by Head. I could ' the atti
the evening ; and shat I was went o
not get a bed there, so I went to a nig
ere with George—she said hi-house, a discrim
if that ; she cried to think little through Kensington. I slept there, and in ' very se
ich a thine. Mrs. Bennet, the morning, after breakfast, came through the ..
much a
place towards Shepherd's Bush, which I thought ,'
ith her at the time. I then
std the members the consist- was the most solitary way in which I could make ever fai
my mind up as to what I had best do. I first
lill MP, and asked me about spoke .
where he was ern Saturday thought to give myself up, and say how I got the Mr.
pas sitting with Saunders, things ; afterwards I thought it would be better
to get on board a ship for Scotland, Ireland, or that a I
11, 6 O. we could clear you,
been d
any foreign part. I wrote two letters at the White
ti.' [These two mar( has circom
for this
not remember seeing me in Horse, near Uxbridge, to send to my brother and '
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t much before ten o'clock.] the landlord of the Tiger's Head, stating how I came
ises
intbs better than eight days. by the things. There was Ito date to the lotion, sad
seHall
this night, and slept again I meant to &spiel; them from some sea-port town.
s Tiger's H Hesse
!lead on the Sun. I never travelled the road I was going in my life, lie Bait
ist ten o'clock," and went. to but I saw it led to Bristol, Oxford, Worcester, fee.
saturdi
sere, and stayed the hest pert &c. I jogged on slowly from day to day ; i knew
Litton if he could take my myself innocent of the murder; therefore I kept on basinei
rol
ens, on Monday evening the very same clothes as I had on when I left town,
Ce,
, for I thought I should be for .1 thought again to myself, there is plenty can made,
this me
pint of beer, and be said clear me. I came to a place called High Wickham; L'b.
abed two or three miles from there was a town, i '
p the box, for it never usedon the
was a lock to it, but the key where I purchased a striped waistcoat, which I wore Lir
on the Saturday week before I was taken at Dedding.
the staple. Ido not think 14th
abscor
Monday evening at he pro. ton. This was all I disguised myself in, excepting
found
I
? myself. I went to Green. I took my hat-hand off. I was at Oxford a *hole
. was tli
swing, and as usual went to 1 week, and afterwards went to a small village, a mile
said h.
Hazleton was. They said j and-a half from Oxford, to the left of the Worcester
which
:en upon suspicion of the I road, and stopped at the Horse and Groom. The
ceived
e hail said to a woman lie I night was very wet and dark, the company very
monde
no proof yet against hint. i civil, the landlord could not at first give me a bed,. At I
n to Mr. Bicknell's.utfice, 1 but a man I saw in a house at Wood told the peo-
consul
I otherv, and that my name' ple, if they could oblige me he would thank them.
mutes,
but Mr. Walmeley cleared I told them I was a herald painter from Norwich;
a verdi
letois went to Deptford, and a there was a butcher in company, who offered me share
The
and I told them L was go- , of his bed, which I accepted, and went home with toner
to Wednesday ; he told me him, and breakfasted there in the morning. 1 went. to say
of Litton had brought my 'to the public-house in the morning, and step th‘ upon 1
When I went to my boa there, the day being wet; 1 contracted a trilling' The
ne, and Hazleton was lean- debt there, end left the ear-rings, saying I world.
and al
took out three of the shirts, be back in a day or two and pay him. I then went
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