Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-03-19

gentleman and Mr.. Drunell deposed to the
facts upon oath /; and Jennings having no
proofs, nothing but mere assertions Of inno-
cence, which could not be credited, was COM
milted TO take his trial at the next assizes.
So strong seemed the case against him.
that most of the mans friends advised him
to plead guilty, and throw himself on the
mercy Of the court. This advice he rejected.
and when arraigned, plead not guilty. The
prosecutor swore TO the fact Of the robbery /:
though, as it took place in the dusk, and the
highwayman was in a mask, lie could not
swear to the person of the prisoner, but tho't
him of the same stature nearly as the man
who robbed him. To the purse and gum
cas- which they produced in court, he swore
as to the purse, positively, and as to the
marked g%uineas, TO the best of his belief; and
he testified TO their having been taken from
the pocket of the prisoner.
The prisoners master, Mr.. Brunell, depo-
scd as to the sending of Jennings for the
change of a guinea, and TO the walters hav-
ing brought back to him a marked one, in the
room Of one he had given him Unmarked
He also gave evidence as TO the discovery oil
the purse and the guineas on the prisoner
To consummate the proof, the man to whom
Mr.. Brunell had paid the guinea. as mem
toned. came forward and produced the coin,
testifyirg at the same time that he had recei-
we'd it on the evening of the robbery from the
prisoners master in payment of a debt and
the traveller, or prosecutor, on comparing it
with the other nineteen, swore to its being,
to the best of his belief, one of the twenty
marked guineas taken from him by the high
wayman, and of which the other nineteen
were found on Jennings.
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ing out all the concurring circumstances
against the prisoner and the Jury, convinced
by this strong accumulation of circumstanilal
evidence, without going out Of court brought
in a verdict of guilty. Jennings was execu-
ted some little time afterwards at Hull, re-
peatedly declaring his innocence up till the
very moment of his execution.
Within a twelvemonth afterwards, BEunell,
the master Of Jennings, was himself taken
up for a robbery committed on a guest in his
house, and the fact being proved on trial, he
was convicted, and ordered for execution
The approach of death brought on repentance,
and repentance confession. Brunell not on,
ly acknowledged he had been guilty of many
highway robberies, but owned himself tC
have committed the very one for which poo
Jennings suffered.
The account that Brunell gave was, tina
after rohhing the traveller, he had got homt
before him by swilter riding and by a neare.
way. That he found a man at home waiting
for him, TO whom he owed "A little bill, anC
to whom, not having enough of other money
in his pocket, he gave away one of the TWEEN
ty guineas which he had just obtained by tht
robbery. Presently the robbed gentleman
amt in, who, whilst Brunell, not knowing
Of his arrival, was in the stable, told his tale
as before related, in the kitchen. The gen
tleman had scarcely left the kitchen before
Brunell entered it, and there, 10 his corster
nation, heard of the facts, and of the guineas
being marked. He became dreadfully alarm
ed. The guinea which he had paid away hi
dared not ask back again and as the afai
of the robbery, as well as the circumstance
of the marked guineas, would soon becom,
publicly known, he saw nothing before hin
but detection, disgrace, and death. In ihi
dilemma, the thought of accusing and sacri
fcing poor Jennings occurred TO him. Tn,
stale of intoXIcalion in which Jennings was
gave him an opportunity of concealing tn
money in the walters pocket. The rest @
the story the reader knows.