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him away, from the bad state of 

 his mind. When he went down, 

 he found him standing in the 

 front of a gentleman's house, 

 bowing : he had great difficulty 

 in getting him away. About a 

 fortnight after, the prisoner went 

 to Yarmouth ; he retiu'ned in five 

 weeks, and went to work with 

 Mr. Norcroft, a law-stationer. 

 He went to several other places, 

 but was always low and melan- 

 choly. Three or four days before 

 this transaction he was particu- 

 larly low. He burst out into a 

 laugh, and on being asked wliat 

 he did so for, he said he had a 

 thouglit in his head. 



On cross-examination, the wit- 

 ness said, he never had put the 

 prisoner in confinement, or had 

 medical advice for him. He was 

 harmless. 



Mrs. Crockett, mother of the 

 prisoner, said he was the son of 

 Mr. Barnett, who was a waiter 

 at the Piazza coffee-house. She 

 remembered his return from 

 Seven Oaks. He seemed very ill, 

 melancholy, and low-spirited. 

 The last week before tliis affair, 

 he appeared very imeasy and very 

 uncomfortable. On .Saturday the 

 17th of March, the diiy on which 

 he committed the act, he was par- 

 ticularly uneasy. She remember- 

 ed his fuing a pistol in the yard 

 on that day. She did not see 

 mucli of his mind the few days 

 before Saturday. She knew he 

 was going to the play on Satur- 

 day. She never knew of his 

 having a pistol till the day in 

 question. He was very unsettled 

 in his mind. 



Mr. Norcroft, a law-stationer, 

 with whom the prisoner had 

 worked for a year, deposed, tliat 



in his opinion his close applica- 

 tion to business had injured his 

 health. Witness recommended 

 him to Mr. Claridge at Seven 

 Oaks, who wrote to him soon 

 afterwards, complaining of the 

 prisoner's state of mind. Witness 

 sent his father for him. He was 

 correct in business till a day or 

 two before the offence with which 

 he was charged. He then ap- 

 peai'ed in a very disturbed state 

 of mind. 



Mr. Riordan, also a law-sta- 

 tioner, spoke to the disturbed 

 state of the prisoner's mind. 



Mr. Claridge was at Seven Oaks 

 when the prisoner was in his fa- 

 ther's employment. He once ob- 

 served the prisoner standing op- 

 posite a gentleman's house at 

 Seven Oaks, gazing earnestly at 

 the windows. He was surrcmnd- 

 ed by a mob, who were mocking 

 him. This was in July 1S13. 

 He was satisfied the prisoner was 

 not then in his right mind. In 

 talking of theatricals, he said he 

 could play better than Mr. Kean, 

 and was often incoherent in his 

 manner. 



The lady with -ivhom the pri- 

 soner lodged at Seven Oaks also 

 spoke to the circumstance alluded 

 to by the last witness. He some- 

 times sat in church with his hat 

 on, and, in fact, conducted him- 

 self in an insane manner. 



Mrs. Mary Haggerty lived in 

 Castle-street, Holborn ; the pri- 

 soner lodged with her. She knew 

 the prisoner. Once, when one 

 of her children was dying, she 

 asked him what he thought of it? 

 He went to the sofa on which the 

 child lay, and, after looking at 

 it earnestly, laughed in her f.tce, 

 and quitted the room. He often 



danced 



