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<p n="833"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo882">Middlesex</rs>
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to Wit}</note>
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The Voluntary Examination of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-1">Mary Cannon</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ321">Singlewoman</rs>
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who is admitted an Evidence in his Majesty's<lb></lb>
behalf Against <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-2">John Ward</rs>
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otherwise called<lb></lb>
Spooney Jack, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-33">Ellick</rs>
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otherwise <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-3">Alexander<lb></lb>
Bell</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-4">Thomas Porter</rs>
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Taken upon Oath<lb></lb>
before us <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-5">Joseph Girdler</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n833-6">Joseph<lb></lb>
Faikney</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ322">Esquire</rs>
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Two of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ323">Justices of<lb></lb>
the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo883">County of Middlesex</rs>
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this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date146">12th. day of May 1787</rs>
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<p n="834">This Examinant, on Oath saith that on Monday<lb></lb>
last the 7th. day of this Instant May about Eleven O'Clock<lb></lb>
in the forenoon of the same day she was looking out of a<lb></lb>
window in her Lodgings situate in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo884">Blue Court</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo885">Saffron Hill</rs>
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and called in<lb></lb>
a Jew who was crying old Cloaths and told him she had<lb></lb>
again and Pettycoat to sell but in fact had nothing to<lb></lb>
sell and merely called him in for fun and at that<lb></lb>
time there were in her Room in the said Lodging three Men<lb></lb>
who are called Spooney Jack, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-1">Alexander Bell</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Porter</rs>
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and a woman whose name the only knows to<lb></lb>
be Nancy as soon as the Jew came up Stairs and<lb></lb>
entered in to the said Room the said Spooney Jack<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-3">Alexander Bell</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-4">Thomas Porter</rs>
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, immediately<lb></lb>
rushed in him and then that the door surrannded him and that Spooney<lb></lb>
Jack took a knife and held it to his Throat when the<lb></lb>
Jew pushed towards the Window being them shut and<lb></lb>
opened it and cryed Murder on which the said Spooney<lb></lb>
Jack, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-5">Alexander Bell</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-6">Thomas Porter</rs>
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, came forwards<lb></lb>
and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
shut the said window the door of the Room<lb></lb>
was then opened and the Jew<obscured></obscured>
thrown downs Stairs<lb></lb>
by them and beat violentlyThe Jew there went into<lb></lb>
the Court and the said Spooney Jack, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n834-7">Alexander Bell</rs>
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