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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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two lived to reconver That after he has hit them
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on the Head
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his Whip or Stick yt he has gone away
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for two or three Days to see if they wou'd recon
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over as the Depont verily believes & Walker has added if
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I do not come in time Kill them & bury them
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& send me Notice of its And this Depont further
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Saith that the sd Walker was not Present when great
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part of the 20 or 21 cows of th sd. Stretton were Killed
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Sleshed & Buried and further says that
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a Person
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often did set up in the Nights to see they did net die
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& Wm. impossible to recouver to knock them on the
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head so as by yt Means they May be inbitled to
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the Bounty Mony & yt he beleives the sd. Walker
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knew this was often done And that wn sd wal:
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ker was sent for to to view the inferted Cattle he
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Seldom Killed any directly unless he found itt very
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improbable they cou'd recouver
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And this Depont. Further says that ye sd Walker
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bought four Cows in sept. last as he beleives from a Feild adjoyning to Mr
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Pullens att ye same time Mr Pullen was burying
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Cows wd. did of the Infection as Mr Pullen in for
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med this Depont and yt Mr Pullen told yr sd Walker
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of itt & told time itt was a Shame & Walker said
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I want Cows or Milk from my Customers & I must have
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them & as this Depont. beleives the sd. Walker in
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monved them from Mr Pullens att
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One of the sd Walker Fields att Lambs Conduct
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And this Depont Further says yt he has been in
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formed & Verily beleives yt ye sd Stretton recd
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the Bounty Mony for 20 of his sd Cows:
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