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TRIAL FOR SHOOTING AT JOHN GREEN.
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said, go into that hole, you will be safe enough; said I
don’t drop a word but that I am gone over the wall; 1 got
in; he left me ; there I lay till the Guards came; I heard the
mob search for me : some said he is gone one way, some
another; they were got into the yard; I heard one of the
shipwrights say, he is gone over the wall, and gone away
by water.
When the Guards came one of the shipwrights came to
me, and desired to know what I should do; I said, go and
tell the Officer to draw his men up, and come into the yard,
and I’ll surrender myself to him; the soldiers came, and I
came out of the saw-pit; I had nothing but my handkerchief
about my head; I had been wmunded between ten and
eleven at night; I surrendered myself to the Officer. Justice
Hodgson said, Mr. Green, you are one of the bravest fellows
that ever was : whom do you intend to go before, me, or Sir
John Fielding ? I said, I do not care who it is; then said
he, you will go before me ; accordingly we went, and when
I came there, he committed me to Newgate.—In the course
of this evidence it does not appear, that the deponent swore
' to the identity of any of the prisoners, as engaged in the
act of firing against, or otherwise assailing his house, though
he did to some few of them threatening him at Billingsgate ;
but this identity was sworn to by the next evidence, George
Crabtree, in the persons of Cornwall, David Clark, or Clary,
Lynch, Flaharty, and Grainger. The first he saw fire several
times towards Green’s windows; Clark he also saw fire after
.Green had shot his brother; Grainger he saw heaving a
stone, or brickbat, at Green’s windows, and Lynch with a
musket in his hand, but did not see him fire. Robert An-
derson swore to Clark’s and Cornwall’s firing several times,
as did also Andrew Evenerus to Clark’s firing. Thomas
Cummings swore to the same as committed by Flaharty,
Clark, Lynch, Cornwall, and Murray, and he particularly
accused Flaharty of getting into his ovzn house, and firing
vol. v, 3 H
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said, go into that hole, you will be safe enough; said I
don’t drop a word but that I am gone over the wall; 1 got
in; he left me ; there I lay till the Guards came; I heard the
mob search for me : some said he is gone one way, some
another; they were got into the yard; I heard one of the
shipwrights say, he is gone over the wall, and gone away
by water.
When the Guards came one of the shipwrights came to
me, and desired to know what I should do; I said, go and
tell the Officer to draw his men up, and come into the yard,
and I’ll surrender myself to him; the soldiers came, and I
came out of the saw-pit; I had nothing but my handkerchief
about my head; I had been wmunded between ten and
eleven at night; I surrendered myself to the Officer. Justice
Hodgson said, Mr. Green, you are one of the bravest fellows
that ever was : whom do you intend to go before, me, or Sir
John Fielding ? I said, I do not care who it is; then said
he, you will go before me ; accordingly we went, and when
I came there, he committed me to Newgate.—In the course
of this evidence it does not appear, that the deponent swore
' to the identity of any of the prisoners, as engaged in the
act of firing against, or otherwise assailing his house, though
he did to some few of them threatening him at Billingsgate ;
but this identity was sworn to by the next evidence, George
Crabtree, in the persons of Cornwall, David Clark, or Clary,
Lynch, Flaharty, and Grainger. The first he saw fire several
times towards Green’s windows; Clark he also saw fire after
.Green had shot his brother; Grainger he saw heaving a
stone, or brickbat, at Green’s windows, and Lynch with a
musket in his hand, but did not see him fire. Robert An-
derson swore to Clark’s and Cornwall’s firing several times,
as did also Andrew Evenerus to Clark’s firing. Thomas
Cummings swore to the same as committed by Flaharty,
Clark, Lynch, Cornwall, and Murray, and he particularly
accused Flaharty of getting into his ovzn house, and firing
vol. v, 3 H