Deceased cry Murder, and directly afterwards
she this Deponent heard a Noise like
repeated Blows, and then she heard the said
John Bond< no role > coming out of his room and pulled
the Door to after him whereupon this Depo-
-nent took up her lighted Candle and went
down Stairs close after him and said to him
''you Villain you have killed your Wife''
but he said he had done nothing to her but
wanted to go out to get a Penny worth of
Beer,butthis Deponent and Margaret
Huddleston< no role > (who lodged on the Ground Floor)
would not let him go, and Margaret Huddlestone< no role > made him go up
[..] room whilst this
Deponent went to Mr. Franks a Surgeon
and Apothecary in Smith Street who came
along with her and he went up Stairs
to the room where the deceased was but this
Deponent did not then a Hempt to go into the
room as a November of Performs were
there, and further this Deponent known the
not

Sarah
Shaw< no role >

John Franks< no role > of Great Smith Street Westminster
Surgeon and Apothecary bring sworn
deposeth that an Saturday last (the
twenty ninth day of September) about
seven o'Clock in the Evening he was sent
for No. 4 in Dean Street near Tothill
Street Westminster to come to a Woman
who was dying or dead from the Blows
which she had received from her Husband
when this Deponent came there he found
the Deceased lying on the Floor in a State
not of apparent, but possitive Death,
the immediate Cause of which appeared
to be an Hemorrage which had
issued from the Month and Nostrills
for there was much Blood on and near
the Body: finding the Woman irrecove
-rably dead, the next thing which
presented, was to endeavour to discover
bu what means the Effusion of Blood
had been occasioned, Before this Deponent
attempted to examine the Body, he went
to