quors, and when he was in Liquor, that he was too uneasy, and too quarrelsome.

The Account he gave of the Fact was as follows. That on the 25th of June last , he went to Hornsey , to sweep some Chimnies, and having got a little Money for his Work, he call'd at several publick Houses in his way Home, and drank plentifully. When he got to his Lodging, his Wife, and he, with another Woman, fell to drinking again, and they all being got very much in Liquor, they laid themselves down to sleep on the Floor. Vawdrey, the Witness against him upon his Trial being in the Room at the same Time. After he had slept a-while, he wak'd, and desired Vawdrey to help him to the Chamber-pot; the Deceased blaming her for it, in the Manner sworn upon his Trial, he resented it, and threaten'd to throw her down Stairs; upon which, he said, she took up the Broom to strike him, and he being provok'd by her ill Language, took up the Broom, and gave her the unhappy Blow, which broke her Scull, and beat the fractured Parts upon the Brain. He endeavour'd to extenuate his Crime, by charging the Deceased with being likewise addicted to Liquor, and by saying, she did not apply in Time to a Surgeon for Assistance, and that when the Church-Wardens got her into the Hospital, it was too late. He did not deny his giving the Deceased the Blow, but was desirous it should be believed that he had no preconceived Malice, that the Deceased provok'd him highly, and he being much in Liquor, did not know what he had done. Tho' his Drunkenness was rather an aggravation, than an Excuse of his Crime, yet this was what he insisted on, in allevation of it. He behaved with seeming Seriousness, and declared that he repented of all his Sins, and died in Peace with all Men.

3. John Clark< no role > , alias Smith< no role > , alias Pug, alias Jack the Catcher, was about 24 Years of Age, born at Lambeth , and baptised at Hackney , but while he was a Child, he liv'd with an Aunt at Lambeth . His Parents and Friends dying while he was very young, he was put Apprentice to a Waterman , whom he serv'd for some Time, and then being weary of his Business, he left his Master, and married a Woman who sells Fruit about the Streets in a Wheelbarrow. For some Years before he was taken up, he own'd he had left off all Manner of Business, and had liv'd by inventing various Methods of defrauding People of their Money. Among which, none succeeded so well as the practising with the Catcher and Ball, at which, he said he was the most dextrous Fellow of any Man in the World. He said, he had got to such a Perfection in the Use of his Catcher and Ball, that Persons of some Consideration, have often wager'd Sums of Money upon his Performance, and his Success has been such, that he said he might have been worth 2 or 3000 l. had he been a good Husband; but he own'd that what he got too easily, he always spent as idly; and when he was short of Money, he never fail'd by his fruitful Invention to get a Supply. He own'd that his Life had been spent in defrauding every one (with whom he had been concern'd) of their Money; that he had once before been in Newgate , and often in Houses of Correction, but was very unwilling to be thought a Robber.