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MARY SQUIRES, A GIPSY; AND ELIZ. CANNING. 367
hot be upon her person; and certainly the dress that is
described so largely, could not tempt any one tb carry her
off to rob her ; nor was it necessary, for that might have
been done where she was seized ; hay, and in the latter
accounts we are told it was done there.
“ Who heard her shriek ? or what is become of the
hackney-coach part of the story ; no syllable has been
since uttered of it. Who should know the voice of a ser-
vant of no consideration, balling in a strange part of the
town from a Coach ?—What must the ruffians have been
doing ; who suffered her to shriek; or who that heard
such a voice^ andffiid, or that did not know the person,
would ndt have stopped the carriage ?—How came he,
Who heard sb ihuch, not to call persons to assist hint?—
There are enough in the streets at ten O’clock ; or,, where’s
the coachman ? for coaches do not drive themselves; and
certainly he might be found to justify the story.
“ If a coach carried her, where therefore is the driver
-of it ? or, if she Was dragged along, how did the people-,
who were taking all this pains, and running all this hazard;
to no Sort of purpose, get her undiscovered through the
turnpikes ?” And he supposes that this was a preparative
for all that followed, and inserted on purpose to prepare
the public to receive her story. But some of these parti-
culars in the advertisement were- accounted for oil- the
late trial.
However this was, Elizabeth Canning, the mother,
having a very good character, and being well esteemed
in the neighbourhood where she has lived for many years,
and the girl having always bore a good reputation, and
being no more than eighteen, the neighbours interested
themselves greatly in the poor woman’s misfortune, and
promised to contribute-to a larger reward for the discovery
of the girl, which was accordingly advertised, and every
other method that could be thought of, put in practice,
but without gaining the least intelligence of what was be-
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hot be upon her person; and certainly the dress that is
described so largely, could not tempt any one tb carry her
off to rob her ; nor was it necessary, for that might have
been done where she was seized ; hay, and in the latter
accounts we are told it was done there.
“ Who heard her shriek ? or what is become of the
hackney-coach part of the story ; no syllable has been
since uttered of it. Who should know the voice of a ser-
vant of no consideration, balling in a strange part of the
town from a Coach ?—What must the ruffians have been
doing ; who suffered her to shriek; or who that heard
such a voice^ andffiid, or that did not know the person,
would ndt have stopped the carriage ?—How came he,
Who heard sb ihuch, not to call persons to assist hint?—
There are enough in the streets at ten O’clock ; or,, where’s
the coachman ? for coaches do not drive themselves; and
certainly he might be found to justify the story.
“ If a coach carried her, where therefore is the driver
-of it ? or, if she Was dragged along, how did the people-,
who were taking all this pains, and running all this hazard;
to no Sort of purpose, get her undiscovered through the
turnpikes ?” And he supposes that this was a preparative
for all that followed, and inserted on purpose to prepare
the public to receive her story. But some of these parti-
culars in the advertisement were- accounted for oil- the
late trial.
However this was, Elizabeth Canning, the mother,
having a very good character, and being well esteemed
in the neighbourhood where she has lived for many years,
and the girl having always bore a good reputation, and
being no more than eighteen, the neighbours interested
themselves greatly in the poor woman’s misfortune, and
promised to contribute-to a larger reward for the discovery
of the girl, which was accordingly advertised, and every
other method that could be thought of, put in practice,
but without gaining the least intelligence of what was be-
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