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92 SUSSEX SMUGGLERS. |
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while Chater and Galley were asleep and there was no other proposal made as he heard at that time: but while they were talking of these things, the wives of Carter and Jackson said it was no matter what became of them (Galley and Chater), or what was to be done with them; they ought to be hanged, for they were come to ruin them, meaning the smugglers. He then said that about seven o'clock Carter and Jackson went into the inner room and waked Galley and Chater, and brought them out of the room very bloody and very drunk; he did not see what passed in the room, but was sure they did not go in so bloody, and he believed Jackson and Carter had kicked and spurred them, for they had put on their boots and spurs; that then Jackson and Carter brought them (Galley and Chater) out into the kitchen; and took them through to the street door all very bloody, when they set Galley the officer upon a brown or black horse and Chater up behind him; that Jackson, Carter and Richards put them on horseback, and tied their legs under the horse's belly and also their legs together; then they tied a line to the bridle, and he (the witness) got upon a grey horse and led them along ; that just after they had turned round the corner about 70 or 80 yards from the house, Jackson cried out " Whip them, lick the dogs, cut them." It was then dark, and the company whipped and lashed them with their horse-whips, some on one side and some on the other with great violence, on the face and head and other parts of the body, and continued doing so while they rode about half a mile to a place called Woodash, or Wood's Ashes; that there they alighted and Little Sam gave all the company a dram or two, but none to Galley and Chater: that as they were mounted again Jackson and Carter cried out, |
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