been accessary to the murder of his brother. Immediately a message was brought by one of the men, that sir John was dead: upon which the captain was forthwith seized by eight or ten men. VERNON--How far was your cabin from the purser's? DUDGEON--I can't say certainly, but believe about three yards. VERNON--Did you view the body of the deceased whilst he lay dead in the purser's cabin? DUDGEON--I did. VERNON--And did you find any visible marks of violence upon him? DUDGEON--Sir, I saw no rope, but he had a neck-cloth about his neck, and there were some marks in his neck, which looked like the scratching of nails; and I believe that he was strangled, the blood came out of his nose and mouth. _William Macguinis_ was in his hammock when Sir John was brought aboard, but was called up at twelve o'clock to stand sentinel in the gun-room. I had not been long on my post before I saw the captain come down; and soon after I saw Mahony, that man there (pointing at the prisoner Mahony), also come down. I stopt him, and asked him where he was going? Damn your blood, you son of a bitch, what is that to you? How busy you make yourself. And when he came to the bottom of the cock-pit ladder I heard him say to another man, Come here, this is the way. But who it was he spake to, I know not. This was a little after two o'clock. The captain espied me, he made towards me, and waved his naked cutlass, and said, Stand back! stand back! The captain was down in the cockpit then. Buchanan had been sentinel in the cockpit, but had been released by the captain. The witness saw Mahony go into the purser's cabin, and afterwards saw the captain and Mahony come up again from the cockpit; it was then about three o'clock. _Walker_ found a watch in the necessary house in the Brockware Boat, a public-house on the Back, kept by Culliford. He searched for it by the order of the justices; when he found it, the watch was in one place, and the case in another, about a yard off. _Sarah Culliford_, of the Brockware Boat, received the watch from Mahony. She had it in her possession about two hours before and two hours after he was taken up. This young man (meaning the prisoner Mahony) was drinking in my house, he pulled out the watch, delivered it to me, and desired me to keep it for him until he did call for it; some time after I had business to go out, I went into town, and had the watch in my pocket; when I came back, my children told me that the constable had been there to search the house for it, which much surprised me; I went and threw the watch into the necessary house for fear I should come into trouble.