Mr. Murray.—He did not say, if you will do so and so, I will give you so and so; his proposal, though more delicate, was as unequivocal as a direct offer. I so understood him.
Mr. Harper asked Mr. Murray, whether Randall did not tell him, that if he did not like land, he should have money, and whether the money was not to be more than the value of the share of land?
Mr. Murray said, that from this part, and indeed the general tenor of the conversation, he did infer, that a donation was intended, and when he objected to land, the prisoner then said, if he did not choose to accept of a share in land, he might have cash in hand.
Mr. Lewis, counsel for the prisoner, asked Mr. Murray, whether he did not state to Randall his aversion to dealing in land, and whether Randall did not say that this need not be an objection, since the share might be sold, and then that he would have cash instead of land?
Mr. Murray.—I did not so understand it.
Mr. Harper wished Mr. Murray to relate, as nearly as possible, the words of the prisoner in this important part of the conversation.
Mr. Murray said, that immediately after it took place, and he had communicated it to his friends, he took notes of it. It stood in this manner: "I stated objections to land speculations as troublesome: Randall then said, if I did not choose land, I might have cash in hand."
Mr. Tilghman asked, whether Mr. Murray did not, to get the man's whole secret from him, go beyond his views to draw him on?
Mr. Murray said, he affected to think well of the more sound part of the plan.
Mr. Tilghman asked what Mr. Murray expressed to Randall when it was proposed to him to engage in the land scheme?