the prisoner dropped the pole and threw him self on the ground, and rolled himself about very strangely with his hands to his ears, and so after a while got up and went creeping away.”
Asked if he had had any communication with the prisoner, “Yes, a day or two before, the prisoner, hearing I was used to be on the moor, he asked me if I had seen a knife laying about, and said he would give sixpence to find it. And I said I had not seen any such thing, but I would ask about. Then he said he would give me sixpence to say nothing, and so he did.
L.C.J. And was that the sixpence you
were to lay out at the feast?
W. Yes, if you please, my lord.
Asked if he had observed anything particular
as to the pond of water, he said, “No, except
that it begun to have a very ill smell and the
cows would not drink of it for some days
before.”
