dentity
only by the sort of specie in which he deals. "I sold it for a one pound
note. I know the lads at Canterbury, who took him after me, Broad, and
Thomas Daly; I saw Broad and Daly set off. There is nothing
extraordinary in persons travelling day or night into Canterbury. I
cannot say whether it might be the 20th or 22d; persons do not often
give us Napoleons for driving them, I never had one given me before." No
immaterial circumstance to induce a recollection of this particular
traveller, nor (connected with similar evidence from other witnesses) to
establish his identity.
Edward Broad, a driver of a chaise at the Fountain at Canterbury, says,
"I remember the last witness coming to our house with a fare, early in
the morning in February, I do not remember the day of the month, nor the
day of the week; it was one gentleman came from the Ship at Dover; I
drove the leaders--I drove to the Rose at Sittingbourn; the chaise went
forward with four horses--he did not get out. Michael Finnis and James
Wakefield drove him from thence; I did not receive any money from him,
the other boy received the money, I had a Napoleon for my share." Till
the day-light breaks, we have nothing to identify him in the course of
his conveyance, but the Napoleons.
Then Broad, upon his cross-examination, says, "I have long lived at the
Fountain, and have known Thomas Dennis some years; I do not know that I
ever drove a fare that he brought before; I might; there are a great
many boys from that inn at Dover; I have driven a single gentleman
before, and sometimes a chaise and four." But upon re-examination, he
says, "I never before received a Napoleon for it."
Michael Finnis, the driver of a chaise at Sittingbourn, says, "I
remember the last witness bringing a gentleman in a chaise and four to
our house, I did not take particular account of the time, it was early
in the morning, it might be between four and five o'clock; I did not
take particular notice, for I had no watch with me--it was dark; I drove
him to the Crown at Rochester, Mr. Wright's house; I cannot say what
time it was when we got there, we were not above an hour and ten minutes
in going. The Gentleman got out there, and gave me two Napoleons, one
for myself, and one for my fellow-servant; I took no particular notice
of him; he had a pepper and salt coat on, and a red coat under that, I
perceived, and a cap." So that this man took no particular notice of his
countenance, but
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