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the counting-house to the privy, and 
shut the deor hard—Kitchener in- 
stantly (as she says) saw the flash 
of the pistol, and Blight came into 
the kitchen wounded. She rushed 
out, and shut the street-door. ‘The 
difficulty here was, that she should 
have heard the privy door shut, and 
the pistol flash at the parlour door, 
at the same moment. The prisoner 
came ir immediately to Blight. Mr. 
Garrow then proceeded to state, 
that when the surgeon, Mr. Ashley 
Cooper, was called in, he asked the 
deceased whom he suspected? The 
answer was, Mr. Patch tells me he 
has reason to suspect one Webster. 
But Mr. Garrow said, he would 
prove that he was not the murderer, 
by showing where he was at the 
time ; he named another person of 
the name of Clarke, because he had 
had a quarrel with Blight ; but this 
_ man also would be proved to have 
been elsewhere. Mr. Garrow next 
proceeded te dwell upon the motives 
that could have induced the prisoner 
to commit the murder. He wished 
to possess part of the business, but 
without payment of the considera- 
tion-money. In all his representa- 
tions about the draft for 1000l. 
there was not one word of truth. 
What was his conduct subsequent 
to the fatalevent? He told Mrs. 
Blight the 10001. was paid, and got 
the papers relative to the business 
from Mrs. Blight; he talked to the 
witness Kitchener as to what she 
shouldsay. He was in the uniform 
practice of wearing boots; but he 
should prove, that when Blight was 
murdered, he had shoes and stock- 
ings—the stockings were afterwards 
found in the sleeping-room, plaster- 
ed with mud, such as was on the 
wharf, The pistol he could not pro- 
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duce, but the ramrod was found in 
the privy. 
The first witness called was Mr. 
Richard Frost, a publican, who kept 
the Dog and Duck. ‘The first part 
of his testimony (for he was called 
in a second time.) related merely to 
the fact of the death of Mr. Blight. 
He stated, that on the morning of 
the 23d September last, he was sent 
for by the prisoner, in consequence 
of the deceased having been killed 
by a pistol shot: he went, and found 
him leaning on his hands, and 
wounded. 
Mr. Ashley Cooper said, he was 
called in to the assistance of Mr. 
Blight. Upon examining him, he 
found he had received a wound near 
the navel, and another in the groin. 
He observed that they were gun 
shot wounds; and, as the body of 
~ the deceased was considerably in- 
flated, he pronounced them mortal : 
he observed the bowels coming 
through the wounds, The next 
morning Patch came to him, said 
the deceased was in ex!reme pain, 
and wished to know whether any 
thing could be done for him. The 
witness told him he feared there 
could not. This was abont seven in 
the morning. He roseand went to 
him, and found him in a very swol- 
len state. He promised to returnin 
the afternoon with a physician. He 
went to town. and came back with 
Doctor Babbington; but Mr. Blight 
had beeu dead about three quarters 
of an hour. He had not the smallest 
doubt that the wounds were the oc- 
casion of his death. 
Richard Frost was again called up 
to speak to the firing of the gun. 
He stated, that on Thursday, the 
19th, there was the report of the 
firing of agur at Mr. Blight’s house; 
Cce4 a. he 
