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one horse, their four legs tied together, and these four 

 legs tied under the horse's belly. 



They had not got a hundred yards from the house 

 when Jackson, in one of those sudden accesses of fiendish- 

 ness continually characteristic of the whole affair, and 

 which seemed a veritable possession of the devil himself, 

 yelled out — " Whip them ! Cut them ! Slash them ! 

 Damn them ! " and in an instant the whole gang's devil- 

 ish fury was wreaked on their bound and helpless 

 enemies. Past Wood Ashes they whipped them, past 

 Goodthorpe Dean, up to Lady Holt Park. Here they 

 proposed to throw Galley into the well. 



The wretched man, who had already fallen off the 

 horse three or four times, in the very exhaustion of agony, 

 welcomed death loudly as a release. Upon which his 

 tormentors decided to spare his life for a little more 

 torment, and whipped him over the Downs till he was 

 so weak that he fell. 



But it is not my intention to trace the red steps of 

 this barbarity further. The details sicken. It is suffi- 

 cient to say that near Rake Hill Galley fell off the horse ; 

 and was supposed to have broken his neck. He was at 

 once buried in a fox earth, in Harting Coombe, alive 

 presumably, since when he was found his hands covered 

 his face as if to keep the dirt out of his eyes. Chater 

 did not find so fortunate a release from his torments. 

 He was kept for over two days chained by the leg 

 in an outhouse of the Red Lion at Rake, "in the most 

 deplorable condition that man was ever in ; his mind 

 full of horrors, and his body all over pain and anguish 

 with the blows and scourges they had given him." All 

 this while the smugglers were calmly debating as to 

 how they should finally make an end of him. At length 

 a decision was come to. Subjected all the way to treat- 

 ment which I cannot describe, he was taken back to 

 the same Harris Well where it had been originally pro- 

 posed to murder Galley ; and after an unsuccesful 

 attempt at hanging him there, he was thrown down it. 



