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with his wife when they met the 

 prisoner Haycock ; it was about a 

 quarter past eleven. 



Thomas Robins and Wm. Dale 

 proved that the clover rick vvas in 

 good order, and not the least heat- 

 ed. This closed the case j and 

 Archer being called on for his de- 

 fence, said he knew nothing about 

 it : that he was in his house from 

 9 o'clock at night until 6 o'clock 

 the next morning. 



Haycock said, that on the night 

 in question he was not out after 

 ten o'clock. 



Mr. Cross, for the prisoner Ar- 

 cher, called Thomas Hunt, who 

 said he went to the fire at three 

 o'clock; he saw Buckett and Allett 

 tracing footsteps j they asked liim 

 to accompany them ; he saw the 

 mark of footsteps, but he could 

 form no judgment of the size of 

 the mark. 



John Izard was going to Ly- 

 mington market a little after one 

 o'clock in the morning: he passed 

 by the ricks, and saw the fire burst- 

 ing out at the top of the clover 



rick : the barley rick was not on 

 fire at all ; it smoked eery much, 

 and smelt as if the clover had been 

 on fire. 



Cross examined. — He did not 

 go and give an alarm, nor did he 

 say any thing about it. This wit- 

 ness prevaricated considerably. 



John Fairfax was with the last 

 witness, and saw fire coming out 

 of the rick. In his cross-exami- 

 nation he said he did not give any 

 alarm. If a town had been on 

 fire, he would have run twenty 

 miles ; hut a rick being on fire, 

 he did not think it much mattered. 

 (Laughter and hisses.J 



A multitude of witnesses were 

 called in favoui- of the prisoners, 

 but, upon cross-examination, their 

 evidence was full of prevarications. 



The jury consulted for nearly 

 an hour, and then pronounced both 

 the prisoners guilty; and Mr. Jus- 

 tice Park immediately passed sen- 

 tence of death on tliem, without 

 holding out the sligiitest hope of 

 a reprieve. The trial occupied the 

 court eleven hours. 



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