_Palmer_. "William Moore. And Captain Kidd came and walked on the deck, and walked by this Moore, and when he came to him, says, 'How could you have put me in a way to take this ship (_Loyal Captain_) and been clear?' 'Sir,' says William Moore, 'I never spoke such a word, nor thought such a thing.' Upon which Captain Kidd called him a lousie dog. And says William Moore, 'If I am a lousie dog, you have made me so. You have brought me to ruin and many more.' Upon him saying this, says Captain Kidd, 'Have I ruined you, ye dog?' and took a bucket bound with iron hoops and struck him on the right side of the head, of which he died next day." _Mr. Coniers_. "Tell my Lord what passed next after the blow." _Palmer_. "He was let down the gun-room, and the gunner said 'Farewell, Farewell! Captain Kidd has given me my last.' And Captain Kidd stood on the deck and said, 'You're a villain.'" Robert Bradingham, who had been the surgeon of the _Adventure Galley_, then testified that the wound was small but that the gunner's skull had been fractured. _Mr. Cooper_. "Had you any discourse with Captain Kidd after this, about the man's death?" _Bradingham_. "Some time after this, about two months, by the coast of Malabar, Captain Kidd said, 'I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England, who will bring me off for that.'" With this, the prosecution rested, and the Lord Chief Baron addressed Kidd. "Then you may make your defense. You are charged with murder, and you have heard the evidence that has been given. What have you to say for yourself?" _Kidd_. "I have evidence to prove it is no such thing, if they may be admitted to come hither. My Lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman (the _Loyal Captain_), and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship and be safe. Says I, 'How will you do that?' The gunner answered, 'We will get the captain and men aboard.' 'And what then?' 'We will go aboard the ship and plunder her and we will have it under their hands that we did not take her.' Says I, 'This is Judas-like. I dare not do such a thing.' Says he, '_We_ may do it. We are beggars already.' 'Why,' says I, 'may we take the ship because we are poor?' Upon this a mutiny arose, so I took up a bucket and just throwed it at him, and said 'You are a rogue to make such a notion.' This I can prove, my Lord." Thereupon Kidd called Abel Owens, one of his sailors, and asked him: "Can you tell which way this bucket was thrown?" _Mr. Justice Powell_ (to Owens). "What was the provocation for throwing the bucket?"