The proceedings at large on the trial of John Donellan ... for the wilful murder ... of Sir The. Edward Allesley Boughton ... / Taken in shorthand ... by W. Blanchard.

  • Donellan, John, -1781.
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[1781]
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Credit: The proceedings at large on the trial of John Donellan ... for the wilful murder ... of Sir The. Edward Allesley Boughton ... / Taken in shorthand ... by W. Blanchard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ve3 ) with the human mind muft feel, that has fomethino- moil forcible to iliew the efforts of a guilty man, to fcreen from the public eye a fa£t, which he conceived • mull ilamp his guilt upon every mind. That circum- ftance will be related to you by perfons of undoubted veracity.—Nay, gentlemen, it will be in proof to you, that after he returned from Lawford-Hall with Lady Boughton, before the whole of the enquiry was over before the coroner, he chides her for mentioning it; he corredts her for it—fays he, you are not bound to anfwer—you are not to give the whole account of it - you are only to anfwer iuch queflions as are put to you, and you mud fay nothing eife.—Say nothino- e]fc !—- Is there any thing to be concealed? Ought any thino- to be concealed ? Is it material for him, any thing fhould be concealed ? Yet, this you will have proved to you to be the conduft of the prifoner before the coroner ; and upon his return to Lawford-Hall with Lady Boughton, when the prifoner found that the idea of this young man having been poiloned was fo generally entertained, that there was no probability of geuting iid of that lulpicion by the ridiculous pretence of his having taken cold, or having died by any means of that fort, Captain Donellan writes a letter, addrefled to the coroner and his jury. That letter was lent the alt day of their fitting, which was the third dav.— I his letter is very material indeed, and I will Hate'it to you.—1 his letter is addrtfled thus : To the Coroner, and the Gentlemen of the iurv ‘ at Newbold. J ' ’ ‘ Gentlemen, t ‘ My underftanding from report, that you are to < m5et again t0:day* 1 hold lt: my duty to give you every * 'nhfirhmat,°n recolleft’ r^peofing the bufinefs « r y°u are upon, exclufive of what appeared be- . fore you laft Saturday, when Lady Boughton and ; ‘ myfclf