Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

180 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
him discharge his gun when it was laying on his arm. The
prisoner was allowed to interrogate the witnesses: his
only question, which was asked to each of them in turn, was,'Did you see Ensign Bailey strike me before I fired?"
They all replied, No.
Just in this stage of the proceedings the clock struck
three. In those days, and we know not but at the present
time, no proceedings in a court martial can be held after that
hour, and so the court adjourned without coming to the
fatal verdict which, had half an hour's more time been
allowed, would doubtless have been arrived at.
On this court martial was the late Hon. Daniel P. Drown,
of this city, then a Lieutenant in the army. When the court
came together the next morning, the case of Haven came
up as it was left, with every prospect that the fate anticipated by Col. Walbach would rest upon him. At this stage,
Lieut. Drown stated that it appeared that five soldiers had
been sent here from Wiscasset, instead of the four detailed
as witnesses. He made inquiry of the President why the
fifth man had been sent. Maj. Crooker could see no reason
for making an inquiry on this subject, as the specifications,
which were their only guide, made no mention of any one
beyond the four witnesses. At length, however, it was
decided that the fifth soldier should be brought before the
court.
After the preliminary questions as to what regiment and
company he belonged to, when he enlisted into C apt. Bailey's company, &c., had been satisfactorily answered, he
was asked-Were you in the company when this act of
mutiny on the part of Haven took place? I was. Was
you near him when he fired? I was. Your name is not
on the detail of witnesses, how came you to be sent here
on this trial? I don't know. All I know of the matter is,
that when the corporal who had charge of the witnesses
had just left the fort at Wiscasset, he was ordered to halt,