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Having thus done, they all went out of Doors again,.
and that the Neighbourhood might fuppofe the firing
the Piftol to have been done without any ill Intention,
Ble-vjitt fired another in the Street over the Tops of the
Houfes, faying aloud, fhey luere got fafe into ToiL-tt, and
there ivas no Danger of meeting ivith any Rogues no-tv.
Ball attempted to get as far as the Door but in vain, for
he dropp'd immediately, and died in a few Minutes
afterwards.
Having thus executed their barbarous Defign, they
went down direftly towards the Faulcon, intending to
crofs the Water back again; by the Way they accideri •
tally met with Higgs, who was making to the Water-
Side likewife, him they fell upon, and rated for a pufil-
animous cowardly Dog, and Bumiuorth propofcd it to
the Company to (hoot their old Comrade Hipgs, be-
caufe he had deferted them in their late Expedition ;
which he would have done, had not Marjoram interpos'd,
and pleaded for the fparing his Life.
From the faulcon Stairs they crofled the Water to
Pig-Stairs, and refolved to go to the Boa>^%-Ilejd Ta-
vern in Smithjield, they not being thcie known, and at
, a Diftance from the V7ater Side, in Cafe any Purfmt
fliould be made after them ; at which Place they conti-
n'j'd till near Ten o'Clock, when they feparated thera-
felves into Parties for that Night, in Purfuit of their
old Trade.
This Murder made them more cautious of appearing
in Publick, and Ble-zuitt, Berry, and Dickenfon, foon
after fet out for Harimch, and went qyer in the Packet-
Boat from thence to Hehoetjluice ; and Higgs fome little
Time afterwards fhipp'd himfelf on Board the Monmouth
at Spithead ; nothwithllanding wliich, he was difcover'J
in tills manner: His Brother here in Tov/n having
wrote a Letter to him, gave it to a Ship's Mate to
carry with him to Spithead; he accidentally falling in-
to Company with one Jrthur, a Watchman belonging
to St. Sepulchre's Parifh, who knowing Higgs to have
been a Companion of .5Kr»ivwY/^'s, ^c. acquainted Mr.
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