Daniel, John Mills, Thomas Willis, Richard Mills, jun., and John Race (another king's evidence), fourteen in number. Richard Mills, senior, and Little Harry stayed at home to take care of Chater, in whose care they had left him. They dropped in, one after another, as if by accident, so that it was late at night before they all got together.
Being all assembled, they consulted what was to be done with Chater ; one proposed one thing, another, another ; at length it was finally determined to take him to Harris's Well, near the Lady Holt Park, in which they had previously intended to put Galley, and there put him out of existence.
While this consultation was going on, Tapner and Cobby went to the turf-house where Chater was chained by the leg, and inflicted on him unheard- of cruelties. Tapner, in particular, pulling out a large clasp knife, expressed himself thus : " Down on your knees, and go to prayers, for with this knife I will be your butcher." Poor Chater expecting then and there to be murdered, fell on his knees, and offered up prayers to God in the best manner his pain and anguish would allow him. During this, when it might be supposed even a fiend would relent for a few minutes at least, Cobby got behind him and kicked him in the small of the back, while Tapner, with the feelings of a demon, hacked him across the forehead, eyes, and nose with his clasp-knife.
