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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n360-1">Gerard Proudfoot</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo104">Cable Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ100">Salesman</rs>
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that<lb></lb>
he knows nothing of his own Knowledge but on Sunday last<lb></lb>
in the afternoon he was at his own<obscured></obscured>
<del>the Bull & <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ101">Butchers</rs>
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& heard Mr.<lb></lb>
Newton in Prsence of himself & <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n360-2">Mary Barton</rs>
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Say that the<lb></lb>
the Deced in the Morning had been at his House & called for<lb></lb>
a Pint of Hott & Sat down & Bent upon his Breast & bid him<lb></lb>
make Hast for where he had been he Believ'd the Man had<lb></lb>
been instrumental to his Death</p>
<p n="361"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n361-1">Gerrd. Proudfoott</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45002_n362-1">Thos. Ruffell</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo105">Broadway Radcliff</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45002_occ102">Cordwainer</rs>
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<lb></lb>
have neither Murray or the Dried but on Sunday last abt.<lb></lb>
6 in the Morning hearing a Noise in a Cellar in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45002_geo106">Cable Street</rs>
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. he<lb></lb>
listn'd<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
heard a Man Say he wd. not give so much mony for the<lb></lb>
Shirt & that wd. Go abt. his Business & lay out his Mony some<lb></lb>
where also & Came up out of the Cellar & said<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
the Man had<lb></lb>
Us'd him very illthe man follow'd him up Stairs &<obscured></obscured>
out<lb></lb>
Dawn you, you Doy if you say any Thing more I will beat yr.<lb></lb>
head off & immediately flung his Elbows into the Body of the<lb></lb>
Deced & saw the Deced Flinch & cry out you Use me very<lb></lb>
ill &<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Will Go abt. my Business & Deal elswhere for I dont<lb></lb>
deserve to be us'd so & that he had Mony in his Pocket to Pay<lb></lb>
for what he had & Galld. out a canvass Purse wth. Mony us<lb></lb>
it wch. Chinc'd like Mony, said he was us'd very ill &<lb></lb>
wd. soe him the next Day for the Injury he had done him.<lb></lb>
That the Deced in coming up the Cellar Stairs said he was<lb></lb>
not Us'd well & that Murray had<del>Us</del>
done him an Injury<lb></lb>
That he saw Murray past & Elbow the Decd. 2 & 3d Time in his Belly Stomach & the Deced<lb></lb>
laid his hands on his Breast & said he had Injur'd him<lb></lb>
enough beforemade no ResistanceThat the Deced he<lb></lb>
saw soon after Vomiting Blood wch. he did twice. That he<lb></lb>
saw the Deced in abt. a Quar. of an hour Dir. & that<lb></lb>
Blood came out of his back part as well as his Mouth & his</p>
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