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a quarter before they interrupted 

 us : Allen first stepped up to us, 

 and put his gun across our breasts, 

 and told us to stop : I begged 

 his pardon, and attempted to go 

 on : Allen then said, ' I have a 

 suspicion that you are going a 

 poaching ;' I told him if he had 

 such a suspicion of me, that I 

 would willingly be searched : 

 Allen then raised his gun and 

 let us pass ; he lifted his gun 

 barrel over our heads ; Allen 

 then turned round and said to the 

 plaintiff, ' Brown, you are the 

 poaching rascal I want : you have 

 been pounds out of my way, and 

 I will blow a hole through you.' 

 Brown replied that he would be 

 searched there, or go down to 

 Wandsworth and be searched. 

 Brown put a basket dow^i on the 

 ground, and told Allen that he 

 would be stripped naked if he 

 had any suspicions of him. Allen 

 kept manoeuvring about Brown, 

 and said he would shoot him, and 

 not search him. I walked on a 

 little way ; Allen pushed hard 

 with the muzzle of his gun against 

 Brown's breast, and pinned him 

 against the pailings. It was a 

 double-barrel gun. Brown called 

 me back; I said, Brown come 

 along. Allen replied, that he 

 should not. I said to Brown, if 

 he (Allen) is tolerated to shoot, 

 let him shoot. Allen then came 

 down into the road, and rao his 

 gun five times against me, and 

 swore that, if I moved a foot, he 

 wouli blow a hole through me. 

 While he was thus attacking me, 

 he cocked both the locks of his 

 gun. Brown stepped over a stile 

 into a common foot-path, which 

 leads to Putney. As Brown got 

 over the gate, Allen attempted to 



stop him, but did not succeed. 

 Allen then levelled his gun at 

 Brown ; I did not think he meant 

 to shoot him. Allen, however, 

 swore and pulled the trigger of 

 his gun, and as the contents of 

 one of the gun barrels lodged in 

 the body of Brown, he fell to the 

 ground, and called to me, seem- 

 ingly in great pain, ' Purday, I 

 am shot.' I then attempted to 

 get over the gate, but Allen 

 would not let me : he said, ' If 

 you move another step, I'll blow 

 a hole through you with the other 

 barrel. You recollect my gun 

 shoots twice, and I'll shoot you.' " 



Joseph Wilkins being sworn, 

 stated as follows : — " I am a job- 

 bing gardener. I had been be- 

 tween Cheam and Sutton for a job 

 of trenching, on the 17th of Fe- 

 bruary, and found there were as 

 many hands as could be employed. 

 I met Purday and Brown between 

 nine and ten on Putney-hill. We 

 walked together, and met Allen 

 near the Green Man, Wimbledon. 

 They bid each other good night. 

 Allen followed them nearly a 

 mile. It was not ten o'clock, 

 but it was very near it. Allen 

 came across the road, and said, 

 ' I think you have got some- 

 thing.' " 



Common- Sergeant. — There is 

 no necessity for this witness to 

 go into all the details of the first 

 evidence. I admit that the de- 

 fendant shot the plaintiff. I will 

 ask him if Purday told the truth 

 in the whole of his relation ? 



Witness. All he has stated is 

 true. 



The plaintiff and Purday said 

 they were going to the George 

 public-house at Wandsworth, 

 when I met them, and not to 



snare 



