Petitioner will be brought to utter Ruin of the sentence passed
upon him by this Honourable Court is carried into Execution

That your Petitioner solemnly declares to this
Honourable Court that the Evidence given by the Witness on
his behalf was their own voluntary testimony and not dictated
to them by your Petitioner or any other person an his behalf our
did your Petitioner know any of them or what testimony any they
could give before be made Enquiry in the Neighbourhood to find
out any person who had seen the accident happen

That your Petitioner has for a considerable time
past been in an all state of health and is very Apprehensive
and fearful that so long and a close Confinement will be the
Occasion of his death before the expiration of the term for which
he has been sentenced to be Imprisoned

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly
Prays in this Honourable Court [..]
will be pleased to take his Case into their
humane consideration and remit the heavy
sentence of Imprisonment pronounced
upon him Your Petitioner being willing
to make Reparation to the utmost of his
Power for the Injury which the said Charles
Kirwood< no role > has sustained

And your Petitioner and his helpless
family as in duly bound will ever pray