Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex: The Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley a Custom-house Officer, and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, by Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, with the Trials and Execution of Seven of the Criminals at Chichester, 1748-9Anonymous
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Smuggling & Smugglers in Sussex: The Genuine History of the Inhuman and Unparalleled Murders of Mr. William Galley a Custom-house Officer, and Mr. Daniel Chater, a Shoemaker, by Fourteen Notorious Smugglers, with the Trials and Execution of Seven of the Criminals at Chichester, 1748-9
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When they came to a lane called
Conduit-lane, in Rogate parish, in this county, Galley in the extremity
of anguish, cried out, “I shall fall! I shall fall!” upon which
Sheerman swore, “D--n you, if you will fall, do then;” and as Galley
was falling he gave him a thrust to the ground; after which Galley was
never seen to move, or heard to speak more.
“Jackson, Carter, and the others, in order to prevent a discovery of
the murder of Galley, went about one o’clock on the Monday morning,
to the Red Lion at Rake, in Sussex, a public-house, kept by William
Scardefield, whither they carried Chater all over blood, and with his
eyes almost beat out; and also brought the body of Galley. They obliged
Scardefield to shew them a proper place for the burial of Galley; and
accordingly he went with Carter, Howard, and Steel, to an old fox
earth, on the side of a hill near Rake, at a place called Harting
Coombe, where they dug a hole and buried Galley.
“The same morning, and long before it was light, whilst some were
employed in the burial of Galley, Jackson and Sheerman carried Chater
to the house of Richard Mills the elder, at Trotton.
“I am now come to the third period of time: from Chater’s arrival at
the house of Richard Mills the elder, to his murder upon Wednesday
night, the 17th of February.
“And here it is that Richard Mills the elder appears to be privy and
consenting to the intended murder of Chater. A private house was
thought much more proper and safe for the confinement of Chater,
than a public-house, at all times open to every man; and therefore
Chater was to be removed from Scardefield’s. The prisoners and
their companions being no strangers to Old Mills, but his intimate
acquaintance, and confederates in smuggling; where could Chater be so
secretly imprisoned, as at the private house of the elder Mills? and
where could he be more securely guarded than under the roof of one of
their gang? With these hopes and reliance, and in full confidence of
the secrecy and assistance of Old Mills, Chater was brought to his
house by Jackson and Sheerman. When they came there, they told Old
Mills they had got a prisoner; he must get up and let them in; upon
which Old Mills got up, and received Chater as his prisoner, whose face
was then a gore of blood, many of his teeth beat out, his eyes swelled
and one almost destroyed. I shall here omit one or two particular
circumstances, which the witnesses will give an account of; which shew
that Old Mills was also void of all tenderness and compassion.
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