Middlesex Sessions:
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October 1796

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Room who Informant Understood were Cutters But
he did not know any of them That Informant was
at Mary bone when they Came Was from Home till
from four o'Clock till Eight That after the Order
was given for the Soldiers to Fire they fired several times
above Stairs and below That he heard no Other Firing
from the Cutters but the first Fire That he did not See
any Person Fire from the Tap Room That there were
several Firings into the Tap from the Street
That Briggs the Deceased was in the Tap Room
That the Officer Placed Two Soldiers at the Tap Room
Door and Informant thinks Two at the Kitchen Door
But he is not Sure This was after the Soldier was
Killed And One of those Soldiers Placed at the Tap
Room Informant Believes Called out and Said " they were flanked out of the
Tap Room" Informant thinks that Calling out they were
Flanked was the Cause of the Firing into the Tap Room
That he is sure no One did Fire in the Tap Room
That Informant Desired the People in the Tap Room to
Lie down And some of them did Lie Down And they
Saved themselvesThat Brigs the Deceased was Sitting
in a Box under the Dial by the side of the Tap Room
next to Cock Lane That Informant was Standing at
the Bar and Brigs the Deceased Came to him with his Handkerchief
in his Hand up to his CheekThat Informant Asked [..]
if he was Wounded But he could not Speak
That Informant Spoke he thinks to the Capt. to Let him
Out And the Capt. readily Let him go




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