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RICHARD PATCH.
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between eleven and twelve; that she had had his linen only
once before, and that was at the distance of a month or five
weeks ; that she marks her customers’ linen with different
sorts of worsted, and marks different persons’ stockings, and
a new customer’s, particularly; she puts worsted into them,
but cannot recollect having any white stockings from Patch
on that day : then a pair of stockings were shewn to her with
marks like those she put on her new customers’ linen, but she
does not identify them: she says, the linen she had from
Patch on the Monday was foul on Tuesday; and that she
then had only one pair, and they were brown stockings: we
do not get the stockings identified by her, as coming to her
from Patch.
Then Mr. Stafford is called, and he says, the stockings
produced by him he found in a closet in the prisoner’s bed-
room ; that they were folded up, having exactly the appear-
ance they have now ; that he felt a hardness when he grasped
them; that he opened them, and found the soles all over
mud; that the upper parts were very clean, but are now a
good deal soiled by being handled by different persons; that
they had not the least appearance of having been worn under
boots. Upon his cross-examination, he says, he made the
discovery of the stockings upon the 30th of September, so
that it amounts to this, that from the 23d to the 30th, which is
a week after the evidence, a pair of stockings is found in the
prisoner’s room, in a situation not expected to be found, dirty
stockings, having upon them evident marks of the person
who had worn them having been walking without shoes where
there was a great deal of dirt, among the fragments of wood,
and things of that sort; those are found in his bed-chamber
in this condition; and you recollect Jones says he saw him
between eleven and twelve o’clock at night, in white ribbed
stockings, without boots.
Richard Murch is then called, and speaks to a very re-
markable circumstance. He says he was employed to search
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between eleven and twelve; that she had had his linen only
once before, and that was at the distance of a month or five
weeks ; that she marks her customers’ linen with different
sorts of worsted, and marks different persons’ stockings, and
a new customer’s, particularly; she puts worsted into them,
but cannot recollect having any white stockings from Patch
on that day : then a pair of stockings were shewn to her with
marks like those she put on her new customers’ linen, but she
does not identify them: she says, the linen she had from
Patch on the Monday was foul on Tuesday; and that she
then had only one pair, and they were brown stockings: we
do not get the stockings identified by her, as coming to her
from Patch.
Then Mr. Stafford is called, and he says, the stockings
produced by him he found in a closet in the prisoner’s bed-
room ; that they were folded up, having exactly the appear-
ance they have now ; that he felt a hardness when he grasped
them; that he opened them, and found the soles all over
mud; that the upper parts were very clean, but are now a
good deal soiled by being handled by different persons; that
they had not the least appearance of having been worn under
boots. Upon his cross-examination, he says, he made the
discovery of the stockings upon the 30th of September, so
that it amounts to this, that from the 23d to the 30th, which is
a week after the evidence, a pair of stockings is found in the
prisoner’s room, in a situation not expected to be found, dirty
stockings, having upon them evident marks of the person
who had worn them having been walking without shoes where
there was a great deal of dirt, among the fragments of wood,
and things of that sort; those are found in his bed-chamber
in this condition; and you recollect Jones says he saw him
between eleven and twelve o’clock at night, in white ribbed
stockings, without boots.
Richard Murch is then called, and speaks to a very re-
markable circumstance. He says he was employed to search