A. Yes. Q. What kind of weapons? A. Different weapons, spikes and guns. A. Sticks with things in them. Q. What I should call pikes. A. Yes; pikes and guns, and one sword or two. Q. Did Brandreth and Turner and Weightman come down with those men from the barn? A. Yes. Q. Did you hear Brandreth say to what place they were going? 4. No, I do not know that I heard them say. Q. Did you hear any of them say at that time to what place they were going? 4. George Weightman said we must go to a field of Mr. Tophams, and the Pentridge people would meet us there. Q. Was it at all said, when you were all collected together, where you were to go to? A. I cannot recollect that it was. Q. Before you set off to Mr. Topham's field, what was done with you? A. William Turner and the strange man formed us into ranks. Q. William Turner and the Prisoner formed you into ranks? A. Yes. Q. Had you any weapon given you? A. No. Q. Had you any thing given you to carry? A. I had a bag of bullets. Q. Who gave them to you? A. I took them from George Bramley; I had rather carry them than carry a pike. Q. When you were so formed were any orders given you? A. Yes; the strange man ordered us to march. Q. The Prisoner you mean? A. Yes. Q. To what place? A. The nearest way to this ground of Mr. Tophams. Q. Is this the sort of thing that you call a spike, or pike (shewing a pike to the witness.) A. Yes. Q. Did you march? A. Yes. Q. What was the first house to which you got A. James Hardwick's. Q. What was done there? A. The biggest part of the party went up to the house; I did not. Q. Did they take any thing from Mr. Hardwick's? A. I did not see. Q. Did you hear them say whether they did? A. No, I did not. Q. Whose house did they go to next? 4. Henry Tomlinson's. Q. Was any thing taken from Tomlinson's house? A. I was not there; I stopped at Hardwick's a little while.. Q. Who? A. Isaac Ludlam the elder, Isaac Ludlam the younger, and William Ludlam. Q. Had they any thing in their hands? A. Yes. Q. What? A. Such pikes as those. Q. Did the Pentridge men meet you as you expected? A. No. Q. Upon the Pentridge men not meeting you, what was agreed to be done? A. For George Weightman to go by the wire mill, and if he met them, to turn them to the Pentridge-lane end and to meet us there. Q. Did George Weightman and any others go that way? A. Yes. Q. What became of the bag of bullets you had? A. George Weightman took them along with him. Q. To whose house did you and the rest of the party then go? A. To Elijah Hall's. Q. Who commanded you there? 4. I cannot say who commanded us there. Q. Who commanded you all the way you went? A. Turner and the Prisoner commanded us all the way we went. Q. When you got to Elijah Hall's, what was done? A. When I got to Elijah Hall's, he was out of the door, and the door fastened on him. Q. Did the Prisoner say any thing to him. Q. Was Mr. Hall willing to give him his gun? Q. Were they disputing any time about it. A. Yes, they disputed some time about it; at last Elijah Hall asked some person inside to give it, and it was given him out of the window. Q. Who got the gun? A. The Captain took it. Q. The Prisoner. A. Yes. Q. Did the Prisoner then say any thing else to him? A. Yes; he said he understood he had more arms in the house, and he must have them. Q. Did he say how he would get them? A. Elijah Hall said he had no more; that he had given him what he had. Q. What did the Prisoner reply to that? A. He said he knew he had more, and if he did not give them to him his door should be broken open. Q. At last was the door opened? A. Yes, by some person on the inside. Q. Who went in? 4. Elijah Hall went in first, and the Prisoner and me and several more. Q. Can you name any of the others who went in ? A. I cannot mention any of them that went into the house. Q. Did either of the Turners go in? A. No; I do not remember that they did. Q. When the Prisoner got in, what did he say or do? 4. The Prisoner, when he got in, was going to go up stairs to fetch a gun, and Elijah Hall offered to stop him. Q. What did the Prisoner say or do upon that? A. He struck him with his fist first, and presented his gun to him, and said if he did not find his gun he would shoot him. Q. Upon that, did you say any thing to the Prisoner? A. I laid hold of the Prisoner, and told the men not to use the man ill, I did not believe that he had any other arms. Q. Did the Prisoner make any search for further arms? A. Yes. Q. What means did he take for searching? A. He took a candle and went up stairs. Q. Did he find any other? A. No. Q. Did he take any thing else out of the house? A. He came along with us. Q. Did he come willingly or unwillingly? A. Very unwillingly. Q. Was he in his bed before he was taken? A. I believe he was in bed. Q. How was he made to come, you say he was unwilling? go. A. The Prisoner first said that Elijah Hall the elder must Q. And then afterwards he took the son instead. A. Yes. Q. The son being very unwilling? A. Yes. Q. Were either of the Turners with you at that house? 4. Both of them. Q. Which do you mean by both? A. William Turner and Joseph Turner. Q. Is Joseph Turner the man you call Manchester Turner. A. Yes. Q. Is there any thing remarkable about his face? A. He has but one eye. Q. Were the three Ludlams still with you?. A. Yes. Q. Was Barker there? A. Yes. Q. Swaine? A. Yes. Q. Bramley? A. Yes. Q. Do you remember Barker saying any thing to Mr.. Hall? A. Some little, I remember his saying. Q. What do you remember his saying? A. He said he had longed for that day to come for long, but it had come at last. Q. Where was Elijah Hall placed to with you. A. We were not in rank then. Q. What house did you next go to? A. Isaac Walker's I think next. Q. Were any arms taken from Isaac Walker's? A. I saw a pistol taken. Q. Who had that pistol for the rest of the night ? Q. Where did he put it? A. In a kind of an apron that he had round him, Q. Was the apron tucked in like a belt? A. Yes. Q. What sort of a pistol was it? 4. A brass barrelled pistol I think. Q. Whose house did you go to next? 4. Henry Bestwicks. Q. What was done there? 4. I cannot say, I did not see the mischief done there. |