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shut the door; and as she was half 
way down the passage, on her re- 
turn, she heard Patch knocking vio- 
lently for admittance. He asked 
what was the matter ; she told him ; 
on which he went down and offered 
his assistance. He asked the de- 
ceased if he knew of any one who 
could owe him a grudge? Mr. 
Blight answered, no, as he was not 
at enmity with any man in the 
world. 
Mr. Christopher Morgan was pass- 
ing by when the fatal shot was fired; 
he went to the house, and saw Mr. 
- Blight lying in a wounded state, 
and recommended Mr. Patch, in the 
first instance, to search the premises 
all over. Patch told him, and his 
friend Mr. Berry,who was with Mr, 
M. to go and search an old ship that 
was off the wharf, as he had reason 
to think that the perpetrator might 
have escaped there ; for he heard a 
noise in that direction on the night 
when the gun was previously fired. 
They went, but found that the ship. 
was lying at the distance of 16 feet 
from the wharf; that it was low 
water; that from the top of the 
wharf to the mud was ten feet, that 
the soil was soft mud, and that any 
one who might attempt that way 
must have been up to his middle ; 
besides, the mud did not bear the 
_ appearance of any one having passed 
through it; he was therefore per- 
fectly convinced that no,one escaped 
over the wharf towards the water.— 
Mr. Berry corroborated this evi- 
dence. 
Six other persons, who happened 
to be in different directions leading 
from Mr, Blight’s house to the pub- 
lic roads, most distinctly proved, 
that when the shot was fired, which 
killed Mr, Blight, every thing was 
quiet on the outside ofthe premises ; 
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that there was no appearance of any 
person attempting to escape; and 
if there had, that there was no 
possibility of his eluding observa- 
tion, 
The next series of evidence went 
to infer, that the prisoner was carry- 
ing on a system of delusion and 
fraud against the deceased, in re- 
spect to certain pecuniary transac. 
tions between them. It was proved 
by Mrs. Blight, the deceased’s wi- 
dow, that her husband, who had 
fallen into some embarrassments, 
had, in order to mask his property, 
made a nominal assignment of it to 
Patch : but the assignment was not 
to be carried into effect, unless the 
trustees of his creditors should, as 
he apprehended, become importu- 
nate. This confidential assignment 
Patch wished to convert into an ab- 
solute sale for consideration given 
on bis part; but Mrs. Blight declar- 
ed, that he had never paid her hus- 
band any money, excepting 250). 
part of 1,250l. the consideration for 
a share of his business. 
The next strong branch of evi- 
dence referred to the stockings which 
the prisoner had on the night that 
Mr. Blight lost his life. It -was 
proved that he generally wore 
boots ; but the witnesses memory 
enabled them to say,that he had shots 
and white stockings on, the even- 
ing of the 23d.—Mr. Stafford, of 
the police-office, stated, that, on ex- 
amining the bed-room of Mr, Patch, 
they were folded up like a clean 
pair ; but that on opening them, the 
soles appeared dirty, as if a person 
had walked in them without shoes : 
the inference from this was, that the 
prisoner had taken off his shoes in 
order that he might walk out of the 
necessary without being heard by the 
maid, 
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