is accident fell out, Captain Kidd met with
a ship on that coast (Malabar) that was called the _Loyal Captain_.
And about a fortnight after this, the gunner was grinding a chisel
aboard the _Adventure_, on the high seas, near the coast of Malabar in
the East Indies."

_Mr. Coniers_. "What was the gunner's name!"

_Palmer_. "William Moore. And Captain Kidd came and walked on the
deck, and walked by this Moore, and when he came to him, says, 'How
could you have put me in a way to take this ship (_Loyal Captain_) and
been clear?' 'Sir,' says William Moore, 'I never spoke such a word,
nor thought such a thing.' Upon which Captain Kidd called him a lousie
dog. And says William Moore, 'If I am a lousie dog, you have made me
so. You have brought me to ruin and many more.' Upon him saying this,
says Captain Kidd, 'Have I ruined you, ye dog?' and took a bucket bound
with iron hoops and struck him on the right side of the head, of which
he died next day."

_Mr. Coniers_. "Tell my Lord what passed next after the blow."

_Palmer_. "He was let down the gun-room, and the gunner said
'Farewell, Farewell! Captain Kidd has given me my last.' And Captain
Kidd stood on the deck and said, 'You're a villain.'"

Robert Bradingham, who had been the surgeon of the _Adventure Galley_,
then testified that the wound was small but that the gunner's skull had
been fractured.

_Mr. Cooper_. "Had you any discourse with Captain Kidd after this,
about the man's death?"

_Bradingham_. "Some time after this, about two months, by the coast of
Malabar, Captain Kidd said, 'I do not care so much for the death of my
gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in
England, who will bring me off for that.'"

With this, the prosecution rested, and the Lord Chief Baron addressed
Kidd.

"Then you may make your defense. You are charged with murder, and you
have heard the evidence that has been given. What have you to say for
yourself?"

_Kidd_. "I have evidence to prove it is no such thing, if they may be
admitted to come hither. My Lord, I will tell you what the case was.
I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman (the _Loyal Captain_),
and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner
told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship and
be safe. Says I, 'How will you do that?' The gunner answered, 'We
will get the captain and men aboard.' 'And what then?' 'We wi