The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-12 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN,

quarter before nine o'clock on the night of the murder, 1
was sitting in this house,. when the last witness came in;
he said some person Lad been murdered on the flat of the
second hill. on the-road. to Quendon ;be appeared much
alarmed, and bis cost sleeves and breast wets bloody. I
end three more went off directly—those persons were my
brother, my son, and a loan named Mathew Dillow ; 1 bad
a lanthoro, which I concealed under my coat. anal on get--
tint down the first hill,-abont 40 rods from the plate, the
prisoner, who was corning up the hill. called out" Hoy;"
I rem:remised John Pallet's voice Instantly; he then said,
here's Jens Jlensford, and I have picked hint vp in the
road." He had the deceased on his back. carrying him
with his (the prisoner's) arms ender the deceasea's lower.
extremities, and his head and arms dropping over his shoub:
deem ; I held the candle to the deceased's fare and said." this
can't he Jests Monfort." The prisoner said, " yes it is—.
Omagh I" • I then assisted to take him off Pallet's
back, and placed him, on the ground, and the prisoner
stood by, and when the cart came up he assisted to pot the
deceased into it, and rode with it to this house. On the
journey, I and my companions protested it was not James
Motorist, ; bast the prisoner sail he was certain it was.
The prisoner came with os voluntarily. No person re-
roosted him, nor did he attempt to run away. When the
deceased was taken into a room in the house. 1 saw that
his bead was knocked to pieces. After this, the prisoner
seated himself in the tap room. and drank some porter s
about half an hone after, the Rev. Mr. Colic' Campbells
the minister of Widtlington. arrived, and on being made
acquainted with the manner in which the deceased wes
found, as hair as regarded the prisoner, he was ordered to
be taken into custody. The prisoner. on being asked by
Mr. Campbell to account for having the body on his back;
said he`foond it on the rmy4.l, and was going to carry Mm
to Prior's Hell, where he lived. The prisoner erotearollis
wool I never be taken; hut, after a very determined resist. I
ance, he was, by the aid of seven or, right of us. (rand-'
cuffed; after he haul brren thus steered, be threatened to
„„flask use eit—Were there any m sok, of
blood on P.allet's cloths, ? Ile was covered with blood;
his shirt was as if it had been steeped in it.
Courts:KO—Wu there any person with him, when you
met him with the deceased upon his back?—Witness.
There was not.
Coric*eit —When the prisoner called out to you in the
lane, had he any light side him ?—Witness —He had not;
it was not very dark; it was star.light; the moon was nut
. visible ; it was' what we call a close night.
UOiteiNKß —Vos were all unable to identify Min when
yon looked at him from a lenthorn. elthongb you had
known him from his infancy P—Witnese. IVe could not;
his head and few sirrre an snitch sivollen.—CostoNea
—Did yen ask Pallet how he tittle to know it was Mr.
ssunifnrii I did, and bis answer was,
"Steatite I think so"
Cosiostest Did Ise express any emotion when you asked
Maltose he knew it was Mniniord ? —Witness: He dial;
he appeared much executed.—Juror : You sat up eith
Mrs: in this house when he bad been given in custody ;
did he make use of any expression whilst you was with
'hire ?—Witness : On the folfotvinl morning he saw Mr.
'John umford, one of the brothers of the' dece ised, pats
by the window of the room where he was confined, and
he inquired where he was going? I told him he was
going mai lit his shoes with the, molts of footsteps that
were visible in the turnip field (his slaws bad bee*, taken
off this preceding night for that purpose). The prisoner
then exclaimed. " Then I sin sure to he done ! 'Tie a
bard thing to be born to he hung ! I sus sore to be
I bong! I shall not care if I get off as Oh transportation."—
'On Isis way to Newport Gaol on Tuesday afternoon. he
wept biverly, and said, " I can sure to be hung—tam
sore to be hung."
Coroner : Mts the prisoner searched in your presence
on Monday night?—Witness: Ile was, George Knight,
the constable, searched him.
George Knight was next sworn.—l am a constable, and
live at Widdington. By the desire of the Rev. Collo
Campbell I took the prisoner into costotly in this room,
on suspicion of being the murderer of Mr. Mumford. He
et first made no objection to he taken, but *on taking him
into the tap-room he seated himself, and said he would
have something to est and drink. which was refused him.
1 then Attempted to put the handcuffs an. and on the sight
of them he became very outrageous, and kicked over the
tables. anal it was with great difficulty I got them on. 1
then tied his legs, anal search d Limn, and in his right hand
breeches pocket, I found a knife, a comb, and two shillings'
anal fourpence in a rimless pies*, anal in his left-side pocket,
I found a buck-horn handled knife, which the deceased'
some time back shewed to me, and I sin positive it is the
some kaife, I saw in Mr. klitinford's possession 1 after-
wards polled his shoes off. [Here the shoes were produced.
and inspected by the Jury.] They were high shoes and
very heavily nailed —such as are generally worn by
countrymen. We shonld have called them laced boots.
To the question of Mr. Thomas Ma uford, junior. the
deceased's brother. I heard the prisoner protest Isis in.
(tweeter ; but on his going to prison, he sail he should
be hong.
Mr. Joists Hayden, one of the Jurymen, was next sworn as
s witness: I live at Widdingron, and am a farmer; about
twelve o'clock on Monday writ. the night of the murder.
sod Itialltar 1 'Pownsend, junior. and a boy, went to the spot
where the witness. Smith, said lie hen found the body. About
*)rods before we came to the place, sod near a clay pit, I
discerned some blood in the road. The pit was about three
feet deep, and four yards lone, and had been dug some ti ee ;
It was about three feet from the road. Oct getting to the ezact
spot. which was about h 0 rods further on. I saw Oil the ground
a pair of gloves, and a small walking stick wniel had been
borrowed by the deceased at the toll gate just before he was
murdered, and a vast (smuttily of blood running down toe cart
ruck. Next morning early we went to the spot again, and in a
piece of turnips about six rods from the spot, bat in a line with
it to the right 1 found the hazel stick now produced, (it was a
most formidable weapon, end slit at one end by the force with
which it had been used ; it was stained with blood.) A little
further, (about twenty rods ), a man that was with me callod
me. and going up to him. 1 saw a brown greet coat and a hat.
The coat 1 knew I. hare belonged to the deceased, having seen
him wear it ; a Hole further, under a piece of bark, 1 found a
pair of silver spectacles in a red morocco case, a two-bladed
knife, pencil ease. awl comb.—(here the articles were pro.
deiced.) A knife found by the constable on the prisonew seal
belonging to him. was compared with the cut in the bludgeon ;
It was notched, and was found to correspond with the notches
in the stick. The hat and coat were produced ; tbo hat was
very bloody inside.
Mr. John Mustiford, of Henbam, farmer, was next exa-
mined.-1 am brother to the deceased, and about 9 o'clock
on the morning after the murder, the constable gave stir
the high shoes belonging to the prisoner, snail wept to the
spot where the deceased was mnrdereil, anal at a distance of
three rods I found footsteps; *nil about twelve rods ormore
from thence. there was a place its a liehl of new sown
wheat where a man had to appearance been 'lining on a
ridge of wheat ; and near this was a hole, as if he hed
stuck his stick into the earth, which had made two marks
as if it had been slit. From there I traced the same foot-
steps to the piece la turnips, where the hat, cost, end
other articles were hound. ( lite knife found in the piece of
turnips was toy deceased brother's. the handle of which I
gave him. and he bed hail new blades put to it in Loudon.)
The footsteps footnoted Moog the side of the turnips, and
then went in a slanting direction across the piece of land
leading back towards the spot where the warder was ,cornr
milted. I began to compare the shoes with the impressions
on the earth from where I first saw footsteps, near where
the blood was, and back again to. the sasses spot, and
found them exactly agree in -tie and shape, and la seine of-
the steps part of the impresoiou caused by the nails curre
spouted with those in the shoes. After .1 saw the stick
tine murder had been committed with I directed one of
.say men to go down the road. and see if be could aseertain
,from where it was cut, sad he succeeded. It was cut

from ahedge jest at the entrance of the lane front the
hies road. The prisoner was asked how he came by the
buck horn-handled knife found in his pocket? he said he
had found it in a field called Baggot, about a fortnight
ago. I and my brother-distinctly remember my brotber
(deceased) having the Sims knife in his possession only
three days before be as murdered.
George Mumford was next called.-1 am brother to the
deceased, and live at No. 127, St. John's Street, Smithfield.
My brother had been in town Omit ten days. On Monday,
about two o'clock in the afternoon, he left me to go by
I.five's Walden. COACII home.—(here he identified the
spectacles found iu the turnip field, and the knife found on
the prisooer,,to he the property of his late brother.)—'This
witness was so affected that he could scarcely give his testi-
mony, and shed tears all the time.
• Thos. Widmer', of Newport, sworn.-1 am a huckster.
On last Mondav evening I was at the Coach and Horses,
at Quioden, and w•as drinking there with the prisoner
Pallet: About .a grafter before eight o'clock in the
evening, we both left the Coach Mines together, and he
rode on my donkey as far as Quinden Want, leading to '
Widdington, where l left him; he went down the Want,
and passed on through the gate, towards Walden.
Jut:rm.—Did you seethe Walden coach pass you on the
road ?
Witness.-1 can't recollect ; I was rather in liquor at

the time.
CORONM—Recollect you ars on your (nth, and you are
bound to speak the truth.
Witness.--I am speaking the truth.—Pallet said he bad
no money. and I gave him threepence in halfpence, to pay
for a pint of a porter. I am finite positive I did not give
him a silvir sixpence. I owed him nothing. lie purchased
a penn'orth of oysters of him, for which ho paid him a
p•ttoy. (It was stated by the landlady of the Coach and
Horses, that just as the prisoner left her house be paid fur
a pint of porter with a sixpence.)
William Dellow, Ostler at the Coach awl Horses at
Qnewien Street, sworn.—On last Monday evening, about
hslf past seven o'clock, the deceased came down by the
Walden coach. whieh stopped to change horses at the
above house. He left. his luggage there, and said he should
ride as far as Quenden Gate, and walk the other distance.
When Mr. Mninford's name was austutioned, the prisoner
left the Moose, before fresh horses were put to, with Kid•
inanpand went towards Qunden Gate. I went with the
goads, And on the road we passed the prisoner and Kiduaan,
and. they kept within twenty rods of the coach all the way.
On getting to the road leading to Widdington, I lost sight
of them, and never saw any more of them. When Kidwell
left-the house he appeared to be sober.
CORONER.—Kidenan, you hear what this witness states.
I are you sure you did not see the coach ?
Kidrn tn.—l have spoken the truth; I have no recollection
of seeing the coach pass.
George Say, the lad belonging to the Qunden Turn •
pike, sworn. About ten minutes before right o'clock, I
Mr. Msinsford got ol the Walden Coach at the gate, and
asked in- to lend him a stick ; I did so and he went away,
after bidding me good night, down the road towards Wig.
dington ; about five minutes after, Kitlinan passed through
the gate on a donkey; he was alone, and I saw nothing of
Pallet.
Jaror —How did Kidinan pay the gate ? —Witness : He
gave me live farthings, and said that was all be had.—
Juror : Did be appear sober ?—Witnrsl. Ile paid me very
I well.
~ono. Cock, of Dibden, weaver, swern .:—On Saturday
alitfut a fustisight ago, I heard the prisoner Pallet, say at
the Queen's Head at Walden, that—" Little Jeta utuford
(meaning the deceased) had bad them up for getting drunk,
and he wished he bad the little 'rascal there, he would
smash him, bet he be cursed if be would not be a • match
for bim." This was all I heard him say, and I went

house.
Susan Reid, wife of George Reid, of Widdington, swots
77,l beard the prisoner say about three weeks ago, that Ise
should not mind hacking .41r. Janes ifunforit's whistle.
He was then standing at his own door; he made the
observation to himself, to person was present. I shook my
head at the time, berauie it struck me he wean* by what
be said, " outlaw; his throat"
Air. George &elms, surgeon, of S tffron Walden, sworn ;
on Tuesday last I examined the body of the deceased; I
found a lacerated wound of thr..e incnes in extent on the
left side of the lower jaw, which in my judgment was in-
flicted with the sharp edge of a stick (the stick found had
an edge of this description.) I found all the bones of the
cranium were fractured, except the frontil bones, which
must inevitably have caused death. The injury on the
head would (it apportioned) have killed a hundred persons.
I am satisfied the injury or the head was produced by
some blunt instrunsent, and must have used great via-

knee.
At 5 o'clock there bring no other witnesses to examine,
the Coroner addressed the Jury in a very able manner.—
They had heard the testimony of the witnesses relative to
this most unfortunate and dreadful affair. He hoped they
would, previous to tneir returning the verdict, dismiss
from their minds any prejudice that so recent and so hoe-
, rihle a deed would naturally excite in their minds against
the accused ; and he also hoped they would dismiss from
their minds any thing they naught have heard outside this
room, and to confine therms-Ives to what they haul heard
sworn• to upon this inquiry. Haring made those observe•
tions he would recapitulate theevidenee.
He thee read over the testimony. of the witnesses,'
explaining the rime as he proceeded. in a Truly perspictione
manner.
The Jury instantly returned a verdict of--Wilful Murder
against John Pallet.
l'he prisoner was then committed on the Coroner's war•
rant to lake his trial at Chelmsford Assizes.
It is supposed that the Brand Jury have adjourned, in
order that the bill of indictment might be brought before
then', so that the prisoner will be tried at the present
Assizes. -
The prisoner, during the investigation. was glens with
the Keeper of Neweate thol..in an adjoining room, and in
which room was Mr. Hall; the Clerk of Sessions at Newport
taking depositions of the witnesses, previous to their being
examined by the Coroner. After the depositions were read
over to the witnesses by Mr. Hall, and signed. they Were
sent to the Coroner. who again examined the witnesses
as to the truth of their statements. This plan was arranged
for the pdrpose of expediting the investigation, sn th;t the
Jury might return a verdict in sufficient time to convey the
prisoner to Chelinsforl, to take his trial at the present
Assizes. The prisoner was in the most depressed condition
during the whole of the time, and in fart( ever since his
apprehension. At times lie'appears to be fainting, and was
supplied with water and restoratives to keep life in Wm.
It is a fact, which has added no little to the overwhelming
distress of the family of the deceased, that a short time auto
a misnuderstanding took place between the deceased sad
some members of his family, end ,the deceased ranee to
[Amami to sepsrate himself from his relatives till they
became reconciled to him. A friend of his effected a
reconciliation between the parties, and the deceased was on
his return to his paternal roof, to receive the affectionate
nelcome of his parents, to whom the separation. thongli
short, hail been painful, when his agreeable anticipations
were destroyed by the hand of the assassin.

Dvet..—A 'fleeting took place on Heartslow Hea.h nu
Wednesday, between a tientlenria of the name of Pays t-r.
•nd a.C,pt.Sulith, which originated front a dispute at a
Coursing &latch on the preceding d ty. The Captain
received his adversary's ball shAve the kive, but it did nut
i lodge.
A plate of ripe strawberries,upwards of thirty in number.
was picked in the open ground, by the Rev. W. IL Cowes.
Ir of Winsley, on the 2nd instant.—Z(futis herald.)

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