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tell sat up all night drinking and smoaking. In the morning, both of them went out about six o’clock, and were soon after followed by Mr Probert; they were sent half an hour, and returned before him. There can be little doubt but they were the persons seen by the labourers at work on the road on the morning in question, though these workmen had some difficulty in identifying them, and would not swear to this point. Hunt confesses, however, that they were the two persons. On the Saturday morning the boy Haddis saw the clothes John Thurtell wore under his great coat, and his boots, and they were all covered with dirt and on his great-coat were spots of blood. Hunt rubbed Thurtell’s coat with a wet sponge, but had no marks of blood on his own clothes. On the same day, the boy noticed several lumps of blood on the dirt heaps, and two holes in the hedge of Gills-Hill-Lane. He also saw a gun and a mahogany case at Probert’s on Saturday morning, which were afterwards identified as Mr Weare’s property; a travelling bag belonging to the deceased was also shewn him, and he stated he had seen a similar one at his master’s on Saturday morning. It appears that Hunt
