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lying in the same posture, when I then saw him. His eyes were open: I spoke to him but he gave me no answer ‘till about 5 o’clock, he seemed to wake, & asked me why he was brought thither. I asked, if he did not remember the murder of Serjeant Dogharty’s girl the night before: he said “That wicked woman has been the downfall both of me and her.” I was one, who went to bury. I know that Dogharty and the Prisoner were intimate, and the Prisoner messed with Dogharty and the girl: but I do not know of any connexion between the Prisoner and her. When I asked them what he meant by saying “That wicked woman has been the downfall both of me and her.” he gave me no answer. Neither Wilkins, Idle nor Stewart, were on guard with me. The Prisoner always appeared to me to be a sober steady man who kept himself close and never were in confinement before to my knowledge.

Fifth Witness for the King
William Williams. – It was I, who first seized the Prisoner. I went behind him and caught hold of his shoulders with both my hands. I saw the bayonet, with which the girl was wounded