The trial of Richard Patch for the wilful murder of Isaac Blight, at Rotherhithe, on the 23d of September, 1805, at the Session House, Newington, Surrey, on Saturday, the fifth of April, 1806 / Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney and W.B. Gurney.

  • Richard Patch
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1806
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Credit: The trial of Richard Patch for the wilful murder of Isaac Blight, at Rotherhithe, on the 23d of September, 1805, at the Session House, Newington, Surrey, on Saturday, the fifth of April, 1806 / Taken in short-hand by Joseph Gurney and W.B. Gurney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [The follozving examinations were read:'] Middlesex.—The Examinations 0/Richard Patch, Foreman to the late Mr. Blight, of Rotherhithe, in the County oj(Surry, Ship-breaker, Who says, on Monday evening last, he drank tea with Mr. Blight in the hack parlour, next to the lane, ahout six o'clock, and after tea Mr. Blight said, he had hrought his will home from town, and he read it to Examinant; he said there was but one thing he wished to have altered, which he would do on the morrow, and write it over again. Mr. Hugin was named executor, and Mr. Blight said, he thought he was a man that Mould not give himself much trouble about it, and therefore he would alter the will: after he had read the will, he said, I want to make water, will you go with me; Examinant said yes, and went out with him; they returned together and sat down upon their chairs, close together, where they were sitting before; he then proposed taking a glass of grog, a nd going to bed, as he found himself tired by being up all night; they had each a glass of grog, and sat talking, when Examinant, having a complaint in his bowels, found it necessary to go out; Examinant had been several times during the afternoon, and once since tea; Examinant went into the kitchen and got a light, and the key of the counting house, and went out at the door, and through to tlie counting-house, to the necessary, as fast as he could, being very ill, and obliged to make haste ; Examinant had just sat down when he heard the report of a gun or pistol, and directly ran, with his breeches in his hand, to the door of the house, which was shut to just as Examinant reached it; Examinant knocked at the door, and the servant opened it, Examinant asking what was the matter; the servant said her master was shot, and Examinant found him in the kitchen leaning with his arm on the dresser; Examinant said, my dear Mr. Blight, what is the matter, and took him by the hand; he said, my dear friend, I am a