Siartwyr Casnewydd Cyf.6, p.64

Disgrifiad

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Samuel Morgan (Sworn) states - I live in Victoria

Square in the Town of Newport, I am a shoemaker - I saw the Prisoner

first on the Square - he came to my house to tea, we went to have a pint

of Ale at Mr Williams's the Brewery, he slept with me last Monday night -
To the best of my knowledge it was 4 Oclock when I saw him first

in Town on Monday - He breakfasted with me last Tuesday morning.
After Breakfast we came out into the Square, we came to see the dead bodies,

We saw a young man come in the front of the Westgate Inn - He asked

the Prisoner to go along with him to the Poor house - The Prisoner said

he would, and the Prisoner asked me to go along - I am not sure which

spoke to the Constable and Serjeant first - I believe it was the Prisoner -

The Serjeant asked the other man first if he was a Chartist, and he -
made him no answer - The Serjeant made a kind of a laugh - I

don't remember what the Prisoner said - The prisoner was not in any

other person's house after he saw me - I am not a lodging house
keeper as well as a Cordwainer, I have apartments - I knew the Prisoner

at Abersychan 2 years before that - I have lived at Newport since

the 2nd May - I have never had any concerns at all with the

Chartists - It was not in my house that Scard the Policeman came -

I was not out all the morning - If Scard had come there, I should

have seen him - It was about 4 Oclock that day I saw the Prisoner
first - I asked him particular several times, whether he had any concern

with the Chartists - He said No - It was not until he had denied

5 or 6 times that he had not any thing to do with the Chartists, that

I could venture to believe him - I never had no thought that he
belonged to the Chartists, because I never knew no harm of him -

I asked him 5 or 6 times because I was always so much against the
Chartists, - I had no reason to know from my acquaintance with him
that he had been a Chartist - My acquaintance with him had not been

of a very intimate kind - What made me put the question to him was,

because he came from where they was. - He did not tell me what

he came to Newport for - I was up to Abersychan about 3 weeks

ago - He said he wished me to make him a pair of Boots and

that when he came to Newport he would call and give me the Order. -