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<p n="32">Copy of the Report of the Case of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n32-1">Thomas<lb></lb>
Martin</rs>
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and Letter from the Chairman to<lb></lb>
Lord Suffolk on the Subject of Pardons with the<lb></lb>
Answer thereto and reply</p>
<p n="33">My Lord</p>
<p n="34"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n34-1">Thomas Martin</rs>
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was build before me in September Session<lb></lb>
for an Assault with an intent to murder <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50646_n34-2">Henry Fountain</rs>
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an Officer<lb></lb>
of the Sheriff of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50646_geo15">Middlesex</rs>
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. Upon the trial it appeared in Evidence, that<lb></lb>
the Prosecutor having a legal warrant against the Prisoner, went to<lb></lb>
execute it and without the breach of any door other violence, actually<lb></lb>
arrested him, and made him his prisoner; which he had no sooner done than<lb></lb>
Marten drew out a knife and stabbed the Office in the belly. The Wound<lb></lb>
was two Inches wide, and penetrated so far that the Omentum came three<lb></lb>
Inches out of the body, and by the testimony of the Surgeons his Life was<lb></lb>
for some days in Danger.</p>
<p n="35">An alarm being raised, some Persons came to the Assistance of<lb></lb>
the Officer, who upon seeing the condition he was in, cryed out of the Prisoner<lb></lb>
"You have killed the Man" to which the Prison answered "No I am afraid<lb></lb>
"I have not" and refused to drop the knife thought requested; nor would he<lb></lb>
part from it till his Servant found means to get it out of his hand and<lb></lb>
threw it away. These facts were proved at the trial to the Satisfaction of the<lb></lb>
Jury and the whole Court; and to coroborate the fact of the Assault the<lb></lb>
Prosecutor shewed his Wound to the Court, which through a very Ghastly<lb></lb>
one, the Prisoner looked on without the least emotion of humanity; and<lb></lb>
seemingly with an inward pleasure and satisfaction.</p>
<p n="36">The defence of the Prisoner was, that his Wife was in bed when the<lb></lb>
Officer entered the Room, and that he behaved indecently by pulling the<lb></lb>
Cloaths from her this is all that was then pretented; thought now it is<lb></lb>
insinuated that he dragged her out of Bed; but the Charge had as little<lb></lb>
Foundation as this pretence; nor did it agree with the Account of the<lb></lb>
Officers Behaviour whose Business and Interest it was to secure the Husband<lb></lb>
not affront the wife</p>
<p n="37">The Jury, thoroughly prossessed of the evidence did not hesitate a<lb></lb>
Moment to find the prisoner Guilty; and the Court considering the<lb></lb>
heinousness<del>of his</del>
of his Offence and that the Officers of Justice, acting</p>
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