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to fire into the prisons, through the prison windows, upon unarmed
prisoners asleep in their hammocks, on account of a light being
seen in the prisons; which barbarous act was repeated several
nights successively. That murder was not then committed, was owing
to an overruling Providence alone; for the balls were picked up in
the prisons, where they passed through the hammocks of men then
asleep in them. He having also ordered the soldiers to fire upon
the prisoners in the yard of No. 7 prison, because they would not
deliver up to him a man who had escaped from his _cachot_, which
order the commanding officer of the soldiers refused to obey; and
generally, he having seized on every slight pretext to injure the
prisoners, by stopping their marketing for ten days repeatedly,
and once, a third part of their provisions for the same length of
time.

_Secondly_--He having been heard to say, when the boys had picked
the hole in the wall, and some time before the alarm bell was
rung, while all the prisoners were quiet as usual in their
respective yards--"_I'll fix the damn'd rascals directly._"

_Thirdly_--His having all the soldiers on their posts, and the
garrison fully prepared before the alarm bell rang. It could not
then, of course, be rung to assemble the soldiers, but to alarm
the prisoners, and create confusion among them.

_Fourthly_--The soldiers upon the wall, previous to the alarm bell
being rung, informing the prisoners that they would be charged
upon directly.

_Fifthly_--The turnkeys going into the yard and closing all the
doors but one, in each prison, while the attention of the
prisoners was attracted by the alarm bell. This was done about
fifteen minutes sooner than usual, and without informing the
prisoners it was time to shut up. It was ever the invariable
practice of the turnkeys, from which they never deviated before
that night, when coming into the yard to shut up, to halloo to the
prisoners, so loud as to be heard throughout the yard, "_turn in,
turn in!_" while on that night it was done so secretly, that not
one man in a hundred knew they were shut; and in particular, their
shutting the door of No. 7, prisoners usually go in and out at,
and which was formerly always closed last, and leaving one open in
the other end of the prison, which was expos