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SIMILARITY OF PERSON. 185
bond, and Mrs. Williams and another, swearing positively
to his person, he was committed to York Castle for trial,'at
the next assizes.
On arraignment, he pleaded Not Guilty ; still denying
that he was the person he was taken for. But Mrs. Wil-
liams and some others swearing that he was the identical
Thomas Geddely who lived with her when she was robbed,
and who went off immediately on the commitment of the
robbery ; and a servant girl deposed, she saw the prisoner
that very morning in the room where the scrutoire was
broke open, with a poker in his hand ; and the prisoner
being unable to prove an alibi, he was found guilty of the
robbery. He was soon after executed, but persisted to
his latest breath, that he was not Thomas Geddely, and
that his name was James Crow.
And so it proved; for some time after the true Thomas
Geddely, who, on robbing his mistress, had fled from
York to Ireland, was taken up in Dublin, for a crime of
the same stamp, and there condemned and executed.—Be-
tween his conviction and execution, and again at the fatal
tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thomas Geddely
who had committed the robbery at York, for which the un-
fortunate James Crow had been executed !
We must add, that a gentleman an inhabitant of York,
happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely’s trial
and execution, and who knew him when he lived with Mrs.
Williams, declared, that the resemblance between the two
men was so exceedingly great, that it was next to impos-
sible for the nicest eye to have distinguished their persons
asunder.
An Account of a dreadful Whirlwind, in South
Carolina, in May 1761.
On the 4th of May, at half past two, P. M. a most vio-
lent whirlwind, commonly called a typhon, passed down
Ashley
bond, and Mrs. Williams and another, swearing positively
to his person, he was committed to York Castle for trial,'at
the next assizes.
On arraignment, he pleaded Not Guilty ; still denying
that he was the person he was taken for. But Mrs. Wil-
liams and some others swearing that he was the identical
Thomas Geddely who lived with her when she was robbed,
and who went off immediately on the commitment of the
robbery ; and a servant girl deposed, she saw the prisoner
that very morning in the room where the scrutoire was
broke open, with a poker in his hand ; and the prisoner
being unable to prove an alibi, he was found guilty of the
robbery. He was soon after executed, but persisted to
his latest breath, that he was not Thomas Geddely, and
that his name was James Crow.
And so it proved; for some time after the true Thomas
Geddely, who, on robbing his mistress, had fled from
York to Ireland, was taken up in Dublin, for a crime of
the same stamp, and there condemned and executed.—Be-
tween his conviction and execution, and again at the fatal
tree, he confessed himself to be the very Thomas Geddely
who had committed the robbery at York, for which the un-
fortunate James Crow had been executed !
We must add, that a gentleman an inhabitant of York,
happening to be in Dublin at the time of Geddely’s trial
and execution, and who knew him when he lived with Mrs.
Williams, declared, that the resemblance between the two
men was so exceedingly great, that it was next to impos-
sible for the nicest eye to have distinguished their persons
asunder.
An Account of a dreadful Whirlwind, in South
Carolina, in May 1761.
On the 4th of May, at half past two, P. M. a most vio-
lent whirlwind, commonly called a typhon, passed down
Ashley