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self into the 'Swan' with a key, and I told Sam Pott next morning." Judge. Who is Sam Pott? Culprit. Why, my stable-boy, to be sure. Judge. Is he in court? Culprit. I don't know. Ay, there he is, Judge. Then you'd better call him. Culprit (shouting). Hy! Sam! Sam. Here be I. (Loud laughter.) The judge explained, calmly, that to call a witness meant to put him in the box and swear him, and that although it was irregular, yet he should allow Pott to be sworn, if it would do the prisoner any good. Prisoner's counsel said he had no wish to swear Mr. Pott. "Well, Mr. Gurney," said the judge, "I don't think he can do you any harm." Meaning in so desperate a case. Thereupon Sam Pott was sworn, and deposed that Cox had told him about this double. "When?" "Often and often." "Before the murder?" "Long afore that." Counsel for the Crown. Did you ever see this double? "Not I." Counsel. I thought not. Daniel Cox went on to say that on the night of the murder he was up with a sick horse, and he saw his double let himself out of the inn the back way, and then turn round and close the door softly; so he slipped out to meet him. But the double saw him, and made for the garden wall. He ran up and caught him with one leg over the wall, and seized a black bag he was carrying off; the figure dropped it, and he heard a lot Of money chink: that thereupon he cried "Thieves!" and seized the man; but immediately received a blow, and lost his senses for a time. When he came to, the man and the bags were both gone, and he felt so sick that he staggered to the stable and drank a pint of neat brandy, and he remembered no more till they pumped on him, and told him he had robbed and murdered a gentleman inside the "Swan" Inn. "What they can't tell me," said Daniel, beginning to shout, "is how I could know who has got money, and who hasn't, inside the 'Swan' Inn. I keeps the stables, not the inn: and where be my keys to open and shut the 'Swan'? I never had none. And where's the gentleman's money? 'Twas somebody in the inn as done it, for to have the money, and when you find the money, you'll find the man." The prosecuting counsel ridiculed this defence, and inter alia asked the jury whether they thought it was a double the witness Lamb had caught robbing in the inn three years ago. The judge summed up very closely, giving the evidence of every witness. What follows is a mere synops
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