WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
knowledge of, or concern in, robbing Lieutenant Fuzer. 
He further faid, that he did not recoiled how he came to 
Captain Lieutenant Meredith's tent, or any circumftance 
relative to it. However, fince he received his fentence, he 
has confefTed that he robbed Lieutenant Fuzer ; and gave 
him information where to find the articles he had been, 
robbed of : he at the fame time acknowledged that he 
entered Mr. Meredith's marquee with an intention to rob 
him, doubting not but he fhould be able to make his efcape 
undifcovered, as every one feemed fo fully engaged on the 
pleafures of the day. 
When he and Corbett were brought to the fatal tree, they 
(particularly Payton) addreffed the convids in a pathetic, 
eloquent, and well-direded fpeech. He acknowledged the 
juftice of his fentenre ; a fentence, which (he faid) he had 
long deferved. He added, that he hoped and trufted that 
the ignominious death he was about to fufFer, would ferve 
as a caution and warning to thofe who faw and heard him. 
They both prayed mofl: fervently, begging forgivenefs of an 
offended God. They likewife hoped, that thofe whom 
they had injured, would not only forgive them, as they 
themfelves did all mankind, but offer up their prayers to 
a merciful 
