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tended that the object of the prisoner was to injure and not 

 to kill. The objections, however, were overruled without 

 reply, and the prisoner was convicted. There were other 

 disclosures of less moment to the sober chronicler, from 

 whose narrative some of the foregoing facts have been 

 picked, and, therefore, omitted by him. He was not play- 

 ing the part of historian for the edification of racing men. 

 Had that been the role he would, no doubt, have stated that 

 Bishop declared that, in 1809, Dawson had poisoned some 

 horses at Doncaster, by putting corrosive sublimate into a 

 trough there. At Dawson's instigation Bishop went to 

 Newmarket, and put the arsenic into Mr. Prince's trough 

 by means of a crooked syringe ; but this is only part of 

 what he had to perform in the nefarious transaction, as he 

 had then watched till he had seen the horses drink, when 

 he immediately went off to Dawson and told him of the 

 fact, that he might in turn give notice to his allies in the 

 ring. On the trial, however, the judge stopped the case, 

 and told the jury that on the evidence the prisoner could 

 not be convicted as a principal, and accordingly Dawson 

 was acquitted on this charge, but instead of releasing him, 

 remanded him for trial on another indictment, and refused 

 bail. It was at the second trial, at the autumn assizes 

 (recounted above), when other evidence being brought 

 against him in addition to Bishop's, and perhaps through 

 the indictment being laid under 9 Geo. I., c. 22, a statute 

 commonly known as the Black Act, that Daniel Dawson 

 was found guilty and sentenced to death, and was hanged 

 at Cambridge on August 8, 18 12. 



THE ROBBERY OF BANK (OF ENGLAND) NOTE PAPER 



Overton (five miles from Kingsclere) or Whitchurch 

 is the railway station on the London and South-Western 

 Railway line ' for ' the bank-paper mills at Laverstoke, 

 from which a quantity of the precious fabric was stolen 

 for the purpose of forgery some thirty-four years ago. 

 Four out of six prisoners charged with being concerned 

 in forgeries on the Bank of England were put upon their 

 trial at the Central Criminal Court, on the 7th of January, 

 1863, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a jury — namely, 

 George Buncher, forty, described as a butcher ; William 



