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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Race said he never heard him say anything about it; but one of the
company, which he believed was Richards, did threaten any of the rest
who should refuse to go to the murder of Chater.
Ann Pescod deposed, that two men came to her father’s on the 15th
of February, about one o’clock in the morning, and called for her
father; that she asked one of them his name, and he said it was William
Jackson. Her father who was then very ill, said they might come if they
would; that Jackson did come in, and asked if they could not bring a
couple of men there for a little while, to which she answered “No,”
because her father was ill; and thereupon Jackson turned to the other
man, and said, “We cannot think of abiding here, as the man is so ill,”
and so they went away. She saw that Jackson’s hand was bloody.
She was ordered to look at the prisoners Jackson and Carter, and see if
they were the two men that came, and she said Jackson was one, for that
she took particular notice of him, his hand being bloody, and that she
verily believed Carter was the other.
Then the King’s Counsel called William Scardefield, who deposed that he
kept the Red Lion, at Rake, in the parish of Rogate, and that in the
night, between the 14th and 15th of February, Jackson and Carter, with
Steel and Richards, came to his house and called out to him, “For God’s
sake get up and let us in”; then he let them in, and saw they were
bloody. He asked them how they came to be so; and they said they had an
engagement and lost their goods, and some of their men they feared were
dead and some wounded. That they said they would go and call them that
were at the other public-house; and while he was gone into the cellar,
he heard horses come to the door; and some of the men went into the
kitchen, some into the brewhouse, and some into the parlours. That he
saw two or three men in the brewhouse, and there lay something like a
man before them in the brewhouse, by the brewhouse door, and he heard
them say he was dead. That some of them calling for liquor, he carried
a glass of gin into the parlour, and saw a man standing upright in
the parlour, with his face bloody and one eye swelled very much. That
Richards was in the parlour with the man, and objected to his coming
in, and Carter and Jackson and three others were then in the brewhouse,
and Steel was with them. After they had drunk three mugs of hot, they
got their horses out and sent him down for some brandy and rum, but
when he came up with it they were gone 20 yards below the house, though
several of them came back to drink, one or two at a time. That he did
not know what became of the man that he saw in the parlour; but he
observed they separated into two companies; that one of the company, a
little man, asked him if he did not know the place where they formerly
laid up some goods; and the prisoner Carter came back, and said they
must have a lantern and spade. That Richards fell in a passion because
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