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
Date:
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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    A, From Mr. Blight's yard, this morning? Q. Did you take them down ? A. No. Q. Did you see them taken down? A. No. Charles Stonard swoi*n. Examined by Mr. Garrow, Q. Were you a labourer employed by the late Mr. Blight ? A. Yes. Q. At what time did you leave your labour on the night of the 19th—the night when the first shot was fired ? A. I left my labour at six o'clock in the evening. Q. Who shut you out when you left the premises? A. Mr. Patch did the gates up that night. Q. Mr. Patch fastened up the gates ? A. 1 cannot tell; I went out at the gates as other people did ; Mr. Patch was there. Q. How soon did you hear that any thing had hap- pened in the course of that evening. A. Next morning I heard Mr. Patch tell the peo- ple of it. Q. Had you the curiosity to look at the place where the ball had passed through? A. I saw where the ball had gone through the shutter. Q. Is that the shutter the ball went through ? A. It is. Q. Is this the sash that was shut up by that shut- ter, and through which the ball passed? A. Yes, this is the lower sash. Q. What height is this sash from the ground, when it is in its proper place? A. About two feet nine inches. Q. Now hold up the shutter, and shew me the cor- responding hole in that. [The witness skewed the hole in the shutter and in the sash.] f 3