of Mortimer Street Cavendish Square come and
attended the deceased every day until her Death
which happened yesterday morning about seven
oClock of several fractures of the Skull which Mr.
St. Ladger told this Examinant had been given him
and which he then apprehendedthewould be as they
have since proved the Cause of his Death. And this
Examinant saith that at the time she found the
deceased in the dreadfull state above described
she supposed some person a persons must have get
secretly into the House and done the Mischief but
did not at that Time suspect anyonepersoninparticular
as all the Doorsandwere fastened but the back
windows of the House were not. - And this Examinant.
saith that on the Morning in which the accident
happened and before Mr St. Ledger come she found
a Stick or bludgeon about two feet from the tool of the Bed and which she recollected seeing one
Joseph Rickards< no role > (who had been a servant of the deceased
and discharged from his Service about a month before)
have in husband on the sunday proceeding he having called in
at the deceaseds House on the said Sundaybeforewith the
said Trotman they having been cutting Sticks in the
Fields as they informed this Examinant. And she
also found on Iron bar belonging to a Window of the
Room in which John Trotman< no role > lay and which was
standing against [..] hest of Drawers in the deceaseds
Room on which bar alone End there was muchblood
some white stuff like flash and come. hair and is of
opinion the blows which caused the wounds on the
deceaseds head were given birth that bar. and verily
beleives that the said Joseph Rickards< no role > had been by
some means or other concealed in a Closet in the said Trotmans
Room as some bottles that were in that Closet had been Removed
and that he the said Joseph Rickards< no role > had given the said
Blows to the said Walter Horseman< no role > is manner before