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MURDER DISCOVERED
subject to strange whims and phrenzies, and often talked of
shooting, drowning, and strangling himself.
An Account of the Discovery of this horrid Murder.
Mr. Smith, (the gentleman at whose house Sir John
Dinely Goodyere, and his brother Captain Goodyere, spent
a sociable hour together the day before) accidentally heard
that evening, that a person who had the appearance of
a gentleman, was hurried in a very violent manner
over College Green, and that a gentleman, who by
the description of him, answered to the person of
the captain, assisted; and Mr. Smith knowing the ship
was to sail the first fair wind, and remembering that
they went out of the house nearly together, it came
directly into his head, that the captain had took him
on board, with intent to destroy him w’hen he came upon the
high seas. This suspicion being strengthened by other cir-
cumstances, made so deep an impression on his mind, that
early in the morning he applied himself to Henry Coombe,
Esq. the mayor, for an officer to go and search the ship,
before she was sailed out of the liberty of the city, which
reaches ten or fifteen miles down the river. The officer the
mayor thought fit to send was the water bailiff, with proper
assistance, and full orders to search the ship for Sir John
Dinely Goodyere, Bart. The officer obeyed his orders;
and coming to the ship, the cooper, his wife, and lieutenant
Berry, acquainted him, that they had been just consulting
about the affair, and discovered to him what they knew of
the whole matter, the captain being then safe in his cabin.
The w'ater bailiff sent immediately this account to the city
magistrates, who thought proper to reinforce him with a
strong guard to secure the captain; but before the guard
came, the cooper and lieutenant had done the business.
A letter was sent, wrote with Captain Goodyere’s own
hand, and directed to Mr. Jarit Smith, attorney at law,
on
MURDER DISCOVERED
subject to strange whims and phrenzies, and often talked of
shooting, drowning, and strangling himself.
An Account of the Discovery of this horrid Murder.
Mr. Smith, (the gentleman at whose house Sir John
Dinely Goodyere, and his brother Captain Goodyere, spent
a sociable hour together the day before) accidentally heard
that evening, that a person who had the appearance of
a gentleman, was hurried in a very violent manner
over College Green, and that a gentleman, who by
the description of him, answered to the person of
the captain, assisted; and Mr. Smith knowing the ship
was to sail the first fair wind, and remembering that
they went out of the house nearly together, it came
directly into his head, that the captain had took him
on board, with intent to destroy him w’hen he came upon the
high seas. This suspicion being strengthened by other cir-
cumstances, made so deep an impression on his mind, that
early in the morning he applied himself to Henry Coombe,
Esq. the mayor, for an officer to go and search the ship,
before she was sailed out of the liberty of the city, which
reaches ten or fifteen miles down the river. The officer the
mayor thought fit to send was the water bailiff, with proper
assistance, and full orders to search the ship for Sir John
Dinely Goodyere, Bart. The officer obeyed his orders;
and coming to the ship, the cooper, his wife, and lieutenant
Berry, acquainted him, that they had been just consulting
about the affair, and discovered to him what they knew of
the whole matter, the captain being then safe in his cabin.
The w'ater bailiff sent immediately this account to the city
magistrates, who thought proper to reinforce him with a
strong guard to secure the captain; but before the guard
came, the cooper and lieutenant had done the business.
A letter was sent, wrote with Captain Goodyere’s own
hand, and directed to Mr. Jarit Smith, attorney at law,
on