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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That when they were at the widow Payne’s, Jackson and Carter both said
they would see the letter for Justice Battine, because they thought the
men were going to swear against the smugglers; that both Jackson and
Carter hindered him from going through the room where the two men were;
and that one of the men had on a blue great coat.
Being cross-examined at the request of Carter, whether he hindered him
from going through the room,
Answered that both the prisoners did.
Joseph Southern, William Lamb, William Garrett and George Poate, proved
the same as upon the former trial.
John Race, to the first part of his evidence relating to his
transactions at the widow Payne’s, added, that the blood ran down from
Galley’s head and face, on Jackson knocking him down; and that Jackson
and Carter were not fuddled when he went away.
Being asked if he was certain the two prisoners were present at
Rowland’s Castle at the consultation that was had to take the men
Galley and Chater away and confine them, said, Yes, he was sure they
were both present.
William Steel, to his former evidence, added, that whilst they were
at the widow Payne’s, Jackson said, that if any of the gang went away
from them, he would shoot them through the head, or through the body,
or serve them as bad as the two men should be served. That he supposed
Jackson meant by this, that he would murder any of their own company,
or use any of them as ill as they did the officer and Chater, if they
left them; that when the company left off whipping Galley with their
thongs and lashes of their whips, as mentioned in the former trial,
because the lashes of the whips reached this witness, they beat him
with the butt-end of their whips, which were very heavy, and loaded
with lead, till one of their whips was beat all to pieces. That the
gravelly knap, where Galley was pushed off the horse, when he died, was
in Conduit-lane, in Rogate parish; and Little Harry pushed him in the
back, and shoved him down; and that Jackson and Carter, Little Sam, and
Richards, were in company when he died; and that they laid his body
upon a horse, and one man held him on one side, and another on the
other side, and so they led the horse along. That Carter and Jackson
went before to call Scardefield up, and when they came there, they laid
Galley’s body down in the brewhouse, at Scardefield’s, and carried
Chater into another room; that they drank every one a dram, and Jackson
and Carter asked Scardefield if he knew any place to bury that man in,
and he said “No.” But they said he must go with them; and they got a
spade, and a candle and lantern, and they laid Galley on horseback
again, and he (the witness), Carter, Little Sam and Scardefield, went
back for about a mile, and he held the horse whilst Scardefield, Carter
and Little Sam went to find the place to bury him in; and when they
had found it, Carter and Sam came back to him, and left Scardefield
to dig the grave. They went and buried him there, and returned back
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