ABSTRACT
The waiter, Joseph Edmonds, went so far as to say loudly that someone should report the crime to Captain Wright. But he paid for his moment of valour with a night of fear. They ‘looked up and down for the man that said this,’ Mary Heylin reported, ‘and said they would have his head that night or in the morning.’ At the Supreme Court trial, Mary Heylin had stated that Hayes had agreed to ‘make it up’ with the soldiers for the price of a new bonnet. Mary Heylin, meanwhile, tended to Hayes’ hurts, and agreed to go to Penrith to support her in her complaint against the soldiers. The way Mary Heylin described events to the Supreme Court, the violence of the soldiers seemed to arise directly out of their drinking and suggestive talk with Hayes.
