Michael Cannon< no role > who lodges at Mr. Davis a Chairman in little Russel
Street Covent Garden , Smith, on his Oath says that Thomas
Plunkett< no role > and the Deceased his Wife lodged with this Deponent
in Browns Buildings the back of Drury lane Playhouse for
Six Months, during which time the Deponent has frequently seen
the Deceased's Husband beat and ill use her, that they left the
Deponents lodging about three Months ago, and went to lodge
in Church Court St. Giles's , Says that on Sunday the Ninth day
of October instant Deponent and his Wife being at the Black
Lyon a Public House in Duke Street Bloomsbury in the Evening
the Deceased came in, "and said to Deponent and his Wife that
"her Husband had broke her Finger and that she was afraid he
"would Murther her if she went home that night, and desired
"She might stay with her Sister (the Deponent's Wife) that Night"
but his Wife said we are always Plagued with Complaints of
your Husband, Go Home to your Husband, and soon after the Deced
went away, Deponent next Day heard that the Deceased was almost
Murthered by her Husband and was carried to St. George's Hospital
Deponent went to the Hospital, and saw her, "and the Deced said
"she believed he would never see her again Alive, that her Husband
had