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could prove any one of those facts against the prisoners: he should prove that Scot gave directions for the making of the frame to that mould, and for making the implement called a hog, and that he (Scot) paid for them. The situation of the house, and the manner in which it was fortified, how the officers had got in, and what they afterwards found, it was not necessary for him to detail, though as this was a distinct trial from the last they must be detailed in evidence.
Ann Brookes was the first witness called on the part of the prosecution. She lived servant with Booth about four years, and quitted his service last Michaelmas; he was the master of the house, and held a farm with it; she does not know George Scot: being directed to look at the prisoners, she said she knew them both—he that stood farthest from her was called the Scotchman; he came to Booth last year, if he had stayed till this hay harvest he would have been there twelve months; she did not know what business the Scotchman was—does not know what he did; there he was, sometimes up stairs, sometimes down; he slept there; she does not know that he did any thing—he did not work on the farm—he eat with the family; she was never in the upper part of the house; she knows the room called the granary—never saw the Scotchman come out of that room.
Cross-examined.—Scot boarded and lodged as a private gentleman with her master; never saw Booth in any room but the kitchen.
This witness seemed determined to know nothing that would affect the prisoners.
Mr. Linwood proved the constables going with the soldiers to Booth's house, the manner in which the house was fortified, that the trap doors were the only way to get into the chamber and garret over the parlour, their search, and what they found there; but this being given in evidence on the first trial, and the present being only a repetition of that evidence, is omitted here, the more particularly as the things found in the lumber room and granary were what immediately related to the present charge.—When the officers went to the lumber room the door was locked, and they forced it open—they found in that room two bundles of wire, one round, the other flat—they hung on the malt-mill; the mould and frame were also found
