12 RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



Carter soon extracted from Chater the real nature 

 of the business in hand. 



The officers were then made nearly drunk and put 

 to bed, from which they were awakened to be tied 

 to one of the horses with their legs under the belly, 

 and were brutally whipped till they fell twice with 

 their heads under the horse. They were then 

 brought to a well in Lady Holt Park, where Galley 

 was taken from the horse and was about to be 

 thrown into the well. This, however, was not done. 

 Putting him again upon the horse, they whipped 

 him to death upon the Downs, and then dug a 

 hole and buried him. Chater they chained in a 

 turf house, from which, after being maimed in 

 the nose and eyes by a knife, he was taken in the 

 dead of night to Harris's Well, where Tapner fas- 

 tened a noose round his neck and put him into the 

 well head foremost to stop his groans. They then 

 threw rails, gateposts, and large stones upon him. 



Galley's body was found by Mr. Stone whilst 

 hunting, and six miles off, in the well, the body of 

 Chater was discovered. The murderers were tried 

 at Chichester as previously stated ; the three prin- 

 cipals, viz. Benjamin Tapner, John Cobby, and 

 John Hammond, being convicted as such ; the others 

 as accessories before the fact of the murder of Chater ; 

 and Jackson and Carter for the murder of Galley. 



Jackson died in prison on the night he was 

 condemned. 



