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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to Scardefield’s again; that Jackson told them that whilst they were
burying Galley, he and Little Harry went to carry Chater to Old
Mills’s; that they buried Galley two or three feet deep in the heart of
a sand pit. The time at which they buried him was about three or four
o’clock in the morning.
Being cross-examined, and asked by Carter, whether he (Carter) struck
Galley; answered that they all struck him.
Being asked at the request of the prisoners’ Counsel, what was the
consequence of that thrust which Little Harry gave Galley, when he
fell the last time; answered that he thought by the fall Galley’s neck
was broke, because as soon as he was down he gave himself a turn,
and stretched out his hands and legs, and never stirred or spoke
afterwards; that Galley was not falling till Little Harry gave him
the push. Said that he did not know the parish of Rogate, or that the
place where Galley died was within that parish, any otherwise than that
he had been there since, and several people said it was the parish of
Rogate.
Mr. Staniford, who was Counsel for the prisoners, moved, that the place
where Galley died was not in the county of Sussex, and therefore the
prisoners must be acquitted of this indictment; for that the present
special commission, by which their lordships were trying the prisoners,
was only to enquire into murders and felonies committed in the county
of Sussex.
Whereupon the Counsel for the King replied that they would undertake to
prove the place in the county of Sussex; and for that purpose William
Steel was then asked whether the gravelly knap where Galley died was in
the county of Southampton or in the county of Sussex; answered that he
could not tell. That he had never heard, as he remembered, what county
that place was in, but he was carried thither last Friday to see the
place, and he shewed to some people then present the spot of ground
where Galley fell off the horse and died, and he believed he should
know one of the men that were with him.
John Aslett being called up, Steel said he was one of the men that was
there.
Aslett was then sworn, and proved that he was with Steel and some
dragoons on Friday last; that Steel pointed down to the ground with
a stick, and said, “There the man died”; that he (the witness) took
particular notice of that place, and is sure it was in the parish of
Harting in Sussex; that he now lives at Harting, and was born and bred
just by, and had lived there ever since he was a lad, and served the
offices of surveyor and constable.
Steel, being cross-examined, was asked how he could remember the place
so as to be sure of it; said he knew the place very well again by the
little gravelly rising of the ground.
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