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