Ingratitude and murder! : The trial of Mr. R. Patch for the wilful murder of Mr. Blight ... / Taken in short-hand.

  • Patch, Richard, -1806.
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[1806?]
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Credit: Ingratitude and murder! : The trial of Mr. R. Patch for the wilful murder of Mr. Blight ... / Taken in short-hand. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fTi, i ;vc Fitter from the prisoner to Mr Blight, bating the circumstance of Ha ball -'em fited through the shutter on the'Thursday preceding, was. here read jjt “*> ’ I by the Clerk ot the Court.) A T> , - I * On the examination being renewed, the-witness said teat Mr. rateli was ■ I purchase one third of air J Right s business tor ihesulu of l ioO-- * lbein;r paid, a ba-anee of lOOOl. remained due to the husband ot the witness, or i - i ‘ 'ml' 7 » t* / i vi. if 1*1 Ithis a draft had hem given to a person of the name of uooin, ’aIi.cIi nut not ibemfl^hb'mid which/ upon enquir • after th murder, the prisoner declared !hml been naid. This, however, wa- d’scoved to be lalse. . ~Mr. dwindle, clerk to Mr. Humphries, .Solicitor for the prosecution, proved Jjjjs bavin;- serve l on the prisoner, an l on the prisoners Counsel, nonce > It,.;.,'! and to produce in Court the draught on Groom, f<v JOOm. I Steoheii Goom sworn; sacs he is a glue boiler in dermoivev; tuat be Knew ! th° nrisoneV’s brother about ten years ago, an 1 oidv knew the pr-sonei n> t:u\ oig fseen him twice or thrice. He had never known.nor had any^ conuexion w- u Hvim since; nor had ever seen him till under his examination at Bow-street, ne I never had with him am- pecuniary connexion; never received any money horn 11.inn never gave him anv authority to draw upon him tor any Sum wnate\er. I He never received anv hionev whatever- for any other person’s -account .nan I bim ; never knew of the prisoner’s having drawn upon him t;h oe saw him in I custody. The prisoner-never a-ked his pei mission, nor proposed to a raw upon ! 1 aim; he never gave him any note of hand for money; ne\ ei mau. a,l> u,) I pointmsn-t with the prisoner to breakfast At Mr. Blignt s, n-n ever ''eu -if1, I for such a purpose, nor did ho know the pTisoner lived there, he never caned | at Willis and Fereival’s, nor any other Banker’s, to pay any money on a conn I of the nri one , or take up an- bill I Thomas Graham sworn— ha,s he lives in Mile F.nd Hoad, and is a snip owner. 3 lie was a-.-nuainted with the la»e Mr. Blight; he called at h s nouse on Monciay, I tpe oed of'September, and had some conversation with him and um pno net , 1 hoVtd caded on the Friday at Mo B ighfs home, and the prisoner told him ? r. Bli gi was ...me to Margate. Witness had jailed for payment of a ship pph rAfrh; Ifad bouaht of him T e prisoner had told him that a sad aondent had haimened the oreoeedinC night; that a pi to!, or musket, had been med th^ ay the parlour window, ami nearly taken away his life. • Witness asked him it he knew anv came- He answered .V„r Imt said he believed it was intended f »W.r Blight; lor that it lmd passed in thedirection of Mr. BltpiUcjiaii, ,.e ‘ -'g sit}„tv and had Struck part of the Venetian hr.nds against hi!. hcc.d. * J« • asked him what became of tile hail; and prisoner said. “ » h.rd .fa «» »■»**<■# V-fatween him and the win-daw —Witness obsen ved several splinters of the mmds niJ '■ ?GfJ n If mm I /tL ti.-m u.' * * - - • ----- » Ivinr on the floor, and expressed his surprize that they had away but the nrisoner answered, he wished them to retnaur nntd . ., rS! WHoess hen Ak.4 him.' if he suited anvnerion » PMtiqtlar wlm e, Uhl he guiltv of such an act; and the prisoner said No; but tn* hud some words with a person some't,me before who was forming, or dock for him, and that this was the only man he con d suspetv h . l.a • ■ riarke. Nothing more, particular, passed on that day ; bnt a»..ntss ca.led cn the Monday rooming following, and was told by the prisoner tiwt ...i • — e ■, comf to town, but cone into the ertv about some business -Witness cade, on his return from Greenland Dock, saw Mr. Blight, who after some conversation Uponahe wharf, asked him to take refreshment The prison :r cante mm tee loon, where they were, booted; and asked for Mt. Bhghts spu^. ■, > pointed to them in tin w mlow. and sat I to the prisoner, • ,.> < ’ <; “’? hack Without the .none a and the prisoner answered lie shot Id no. come hack. Mril!achard:'Pe!e'hf S'lt*n. Pa- s he is partner in the house of Wilis and Co. B a.kers, that the prisoner opened an account aquen We ion U ^ or ~vg) ■* mb and then paid into th - house a draft tor < loom, dir .dee. aUil ..send an of. 1 on the 10 h lie -ailed upon him the day before the mb her une dr. Doom was not prepared to par the drab, hut that he would u place of it on the nextdav; which he acco-dinglv did, sim: •r in ^ all iCSmyCts, CX-.-Cp-r. C-. ski ■ l^t i.1 3 the dates. Liere Mr. Perc.val pi educed the last