Samuel Turner< no role >
of Great Bath Street
aforesaid
Lapedary
& Jeweller
on his Oath Saith that last
Friday afternoon he was looking out of a two pair of
Stairs Window belonging to the dwelling House of
Mr.James Beck< no role >
a Painter
where Deponent lodges
and he observed the deced Childrunning before,crossing
the way and at the same Time a Cart Passing along
drawn by more than one Horse and going towards the
Cold Bath,andbut whether the deced stumbled to the
Ground by means of a Stone Which laid there, or was
thrown down by the Horse he cannot say, but he observed
the off Wheel to pass our [..] some part of the Head
of the Child, and Deponent immediately ran down
Stairs, and deponent was going to take it up, but a
man present took up the deced and carried her into
Mrs. Martin's Chandler shop says the Cart was going
along at a very moderate rate was empty, and he
can't say who it belonged to,andsays that the Carman
was on the near side of his Cart near the wheel and he believes he
had time to stop his Horses, and he appeared to Deponent
to be disguised in Liquor says he saw the Child after
it was conveyed to the Chandler's Shop
, and observed it
bleed at the Ears & Mouths, and that it was cut prodigiously
on the Head, and he thought she was dead; and he heard it
died soon after.
Sworn the 18th. day of June 1770
before me
Tho: Beach< no role >
Corr
.
Samuel Turner< no role >
Elizabeth Raymond< no role >
lodging at the dwelling House
of Thomas Raymond< no role >
of Mount Pleasant
in the
Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn
in the County of
Middx [..] on her Oath Saith that last
Friday in the Afternoon After five, Deponent was going
down Warne Street towards Great Bath Street with a
Child in her Arms, and the deced and another Child were
walking together before her Hand [..] in Hand, and a Cart
was coming down Air Street towards great Bath Street
and Deponent in Walking turned her Head on one side to
give a Young Man a direction to a Place, andthe
or turning her Head again she saw the deced and the
other Child still hand in Hand, near the off Wheel of
the Cart, and Dept. laid hold of some part of the Cart or