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The Voluntary Examination of
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Mary Cannon
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behalf Against
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Spooney Jack,
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Ellick
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Alexander
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Thomas Porter
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Taken upon Oath
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Joseph Girdler
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Joseph
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Faikney
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Two of his Majesty's
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Justices of
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in and for the said
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12th. day of May 1787
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This Examinant, on Oath saith that on Monday
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last the 7th. day of this Instant May about Eleven O'Clock
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in the forenoon of the same day she was looking out of a
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Blue Court
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and called in
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a Jew who was crying old Cloaths and told him she had
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again and Pettycoat to sell but in fact had nothing to
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sell and merely called him in for fun and at that
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time there were in her Room in the said Lodging three Men
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Alexander Bell
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and a woman whose name the only knows to
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be Nancy as soon as the Jew came up Stairs and
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entered in to the said Room the said Spooney Jack
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Thomas Porter
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, immediately
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rushed in him and then that the door surrannded him and that Spooney
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Jack took a knife and held it to his Throat when the
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Jew pushed towards the Window being them shut and
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opened it and cryed Murder on which the said Spooney
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Jack,
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Thomas Porter
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, came forwards
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shut the said window the door of the Room
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was then opened and the Jew
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thrown downs Stairs
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by them and beat violentlyThe Jew there went into
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the Court and the said Spooney Jack,
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Alexander Bell
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