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o’clock in the morning ; he also said that he was to be back 
in Oxford a few minutes after nine o’clock the same evening. 
In consequence of what he said, the gate was opened for 
him between one and two o’clock, and she said the defen- 
dant came back at night about nine minutes before nine, 
with his pony and cart. A butcher’s cart was before the 
defendant’s cart, and attached to it from the shafts, thus 
dragging the pony and cart along. About ten days after 
this she again saw the defendant, who paid her the toll, and 
thanked her for paying attention to his request to leave the 
gate open. 
Charles Pearse deposed that he was one of the constables 
of High Wycombe, and he remembered seeing the defendant 
with his pony and cart, about a quarter past five o’clock on 
the morning of the 21st December, in that town, which w T as 
about twenty-five miles from Oxford. He drove up to the 
Falcon Inn, and the pony was taken out of the cart and put 
into the stable, and witness examined it, but did not observe 
any marks of ill usage or anything particular about it at that 
time. Some gruel was offered to the pony, but it refused to 
take it. Witness asked the defendant “what was up that 
morning,” and he said he w r as going to London, to the Bank, 
and back to Oxford with the pony that day, and that he 
had to go there and back in twenty hours, and that it was 
120 miles the pony had to go ; and he added that he had left 
Oxford at five minutes past one that morning. The pony 
was then harnessed again to the cart, and the defendant 
drove off towards London. About six o’clock the same 
evening he saw the defendant and the pony and cart again 
at the Falcon, and the pony was found to be vei^r much dis- 
tressed, and he observed some very large weals on the off 
side of his pony, and this induced him to look into the cart, 
and he saw a whip and a stick about as thick as a man’s 
finger, and a yard long, which was split up the middle for 
about a foot, and a piece of the wood was split off. When 
the pony was in the stable some gruel was offered him, but 
he would not take any, and some hay was then put in it and 
offered to him but he refused this also, and witness observed 
this to the defendant, and he said that was the worst of it, 
the pony would not take anything hardly all day. A bit of 
raw beef was tied round the pony’s bit before it was placed 
in his mouth, and the defendant drove away. Before he 
started another horse was placed in front of the pony as a 
leader. This leader was attached by two cords to the traces 
of the defendant’s pony, and he was dragged off. The collar 
was pulled up more than a foot from his shoulders two or 
