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

  • Richard Patch
Date:
[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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    OF MR. PATCH/ TRl A T draft on Mr. Goom for lOOOl, but befoie tins draft became parable, be received a letter from Mr. hatch, dated the 19th September, requesting bini not to call on Goom for the bill; that lie was not prepat ed to face it, and that he would give them a check for the sum for t! at Goom had called on him, and given him a note for the amount', payable in October, which to him w. s perfectly satisfactory. On the 23d of September Mr. Blight called at their office ; he had no account with tht •tn, but called to enquire about Goom’s draft The witness then produced a Banker’s pass book between his house and the prisoner, in which the latter had made an entry of bills to a considerable amount, desiring them to he plated to account of the Executors of Mr. Blight; and upon this account it appeared, that, as lOOOi draft on Blight was last deposited, but not being paid, was erased. The witnes. further stated, that the prisoner had never called as lie had momised; hut that Mr. Blight called on the 23d to know if the cheque was paid, and finding it was not, expressed much surprize, saying Patch phe prisoner; was a good na- tured fellow, and that he (the deceased) would look after it.” Mr. W illis, partner in the same house, corroborated the testimony of the last witness. MrwGarrow then called Thomas Webstei, and his son, William Webster, with William’s wife, to prove that the suspicions suggested by die prisoner against them were completely unfounded, by substantiating a clear and positive Alibi cn the night of the murder; and a similar proof was substantiated for Claike, who was also charged with suspicion on the case. Mr. Garrow next produced the deed of agreement, under which, the prisoner, in consideration of the sum of 12501. was to have one-thiid of the profits of Mr. Blight’s business. Mr. Jones, Surgeon, who first attended Mr. Blight, was sworn—He said, that on the evening ot the catastrophe, he had conversed whh Mr. Blight upon his wharf, from half past, five to neatly six o’clock; that he saw in that time, tl e pii- soner Patch ride in at the gate, booted ; but that after the misfomme had happen¬ ed, on being sent for, he saw Mr. Patch again, and saw him in a kneeling posture on the bed of Mr. Blight, endeavouring to assist him, with shoes and v lute stock¬ ings on, but he did not observe this till after ten o’clock; he could not he certain that he saw it sooner. Thomas Musk proved hisbeing present at the execution of the deed of part¬ nership between the prisoner and Mr. BiiJit, which was produced and lead in Court. Mai v Salter, laundress, proved, that site had washed for the prisoner, and re¬ ceived her second parcel of clothes to be washed between eleven and twelve < ’dock on the Monday on which the catastrophe occurred. She underwent a lone inter¬ rogation by Mr. Garrow inspecting a pair of white ribbed stockings, prod in ed to her, which were found in a closet in the prisoner’s apartment/ marked with a thread of coloured worsted, which she admitted to he her usual mark ; but would no.t swear positively, nor to any belief that the mark actually was hers. Mr, Stafford, principal Clerk*at Bow-street, sworn, proved that he found those stockings in the closet of the apartment which the prisoner arkn .wIndeed to be Lis, in Mi. Blight s house ;-he »oun<i them iolcled up in the usual manner ot cie: u stockings; but. horn feeling them, observed something haid in the centre, which induced him to open them, when he found the legs tolerable clean, and i o at ; 11 marked, as if they had been worn with boots ; but ihesblesof the let, \vei6o\m d with mud, as if the werer had walked without shoes in the do t. T{ ev were so,led with gravel and Gay on the soles of the feet, and the manure on the deceased’* premises was of the sarnie sort of m xtme. i his was on the 30th of tsemember and the stockings were handed over for the inspection of the Jury. Fnffi< ney, the Bow sheet Officer, coin boated the evidc'me of Mr. Stafford. Richard March, a nightman, who had been employed to examine rite pi ivy at Mr. Blights house in search of a pistol, proved that he bad examined die leaden fiupk which led to the sewer below, and found sticking in the soil the ramrod of a pistol of considerable size, it was found sticking about two inches hv t! e worm end hi the soil below, with some oakum wadding sticking in tl*? worm,’ which was
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