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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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Saith That there are Rooms ever the Slaughter House
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let to different persons and under the Stairs leading
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to those Rooms Mrs. Hughes had concealed herself
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Deponent desired her to come out. Saith he believes
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she was sitting under the Stairs under he desired
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she came out from under them seemed much
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frightened & asked Deponent what was the
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matter he told she knew very well and asked
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her how she came to do their (meaning to kill her
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Sister) She stood some time without makeing
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any Answer in a kind of an amaze and
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Cromble Saith that Pilne asked her how she
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could he such a wicked Woman She said She
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believed the Devil had done it the Devil was
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in her After this Deponent got ever the Wall.
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into his Yard & went into his House Saith
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that the said Mrs. Hughes could not in the time
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after he first heard Mrs. Hawkins scream have
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got into the Slaughter House any otherway
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there by crossing the Wall into him Yard and
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then over the other Wall to the slaughter House
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Saith that Mrs. Hughes sometime in the last Week
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had some valerian Root of him for Tea which is
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