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 16 to a yard, and ranked up in companies of twenty each. In a few minutes John Rich- ardson made his appearance, accompanied by the two jailors and a turnkey. John began his inspection, and went over the whole Sf them; then making a second look-through, he stopped at Haggart, held out his hand and said, Do you 'ken me, Davie?" He turned to the jailor, and in a masterpiece of Irish brogue, said, What does the man' say? Don't you know him ? was the answer. He replied, " Troth and by my soul, I know nothing at all about him. But John persisted that he knew him, and he was conveyed to the condemned yard; the jailor telling him if he was a scotchman he was greatly mis- taken, for he had the brogue as well as ere a boy in Ireland, -but time would try all. Ile was nearly two days in the con- denined yard, during which he had two visits from John Richardson ; but he stout- ly denied that he had ever seen him. On the evening of the second day Hag- gart was taken to the head police office, and heavily load with irons. An iron belt was fixed round his waist, with his wrists pinioned to each side of it; a chain passed from the front of the belt and joined the centre of a chain each end of which was padlocked round his ankles, and a chain