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chief about her head.—Q_ Did you never during all the
time, try if the door was fastened or not ?—E. Canning. 1
did once push against it with my hand, and found it fast.
CF Had you used to hear any body in the kitchen ?-E.
Canning. I heard people sometimes blowing the fire,
and passing in and ont. There was another room in
which I heard a noise at nights, but the house was very
quiet in the day-time.—Did you eat all your bread ?—
E. Canning. I eat it all on the Friday before I got out; it
was quite hard, and I used to soak it in the water.-
When did you drink all your water?—E. Canning. I
drank all that about half an hour before I got out of the,
room.
: Vertue Hall. I know the two prisoners at the Bar ;
Wells lived at Enfield Wash ; I went and lived there as a
lodger. Mary Squires lived in the house, and had been
there about seven or eight weeks.—How long before
E. Canning was brought in ?—Vertue Hall. About a fort-
night before, which was on the 2d of January, about four,
in the morning, she was brought in there by two men ;
John Squires was one of them, he is son to Mary Squires,
fhe other man T don’t know any thing of, I never saw him
before.—Flow was she dressed when brought in ?—Ver-
tue Hall. She bad no gown on, or hat or apron.-— Q/Who.
was in the house at the time?—Vertue Flail. There was
J and Mary Squires, the prisoner and her daughter ; the
gipsy man said, Mother, I have brought you a girl, doyou
take her; then she asked E. Canning whether she would
go her way.—What did she mean by that?—Vertue
Hall. She meant for her to turn whore, but she would
Dot.—Eo you mention this by way of explanation, or
as words as she said?—Vertue Hall. As words as she
said : then Mary Squires took a knife out of a dresser
drawer in the kitchen, and ripped the lace off her stays,
and pulled them off, and hung them on the back of a
chair
chief about her head.—Q_ Did you never during all the
time, try if the door was fastened or not ?—E. Canning. 1
did once push against it with my hand, and found it fast.
CF Had you used to hear any body in the kitchen ?-E.
Canning. I heard people sometimes blowing the fire,
and passing in and ont. There was another room in
which I heard a noise at nights, but the house was very
quiet in the day-time.—Did you eat all your bread ?—
E. Canning. I eat it all on the Friday before I got out; it
was quite hard, and I used to soak it in the water.-
When did you drink all your water?—E. Canning. I
drank all that about half an hour before I got out of the,
room.
: Vertue Hall. I know the two prisoners at the Bar ;
Wells lived at Enfield Wash ; I went and lived there as a
lodger. Mary Squires lived in the house, and had been
there about seven or eight weeks.—How long before
E. Canning was brought in ?—Vertue Hall. About a fort-
night before, which was on the 2d of January, about four,
in the morning, she was brought in there by two men ;
John Squires was one of them, he is son to Mary Squires,
fhe other man T don’t know any thing of, I never saw him
before.—Flow was she dressed when brought in ?—Ver-
tue Hall. She bad no gown on, or hat or apron.-— Q/Who.
was in the house at the time?—Vertue Flail. There was
J and Mary Squires, the prisoner and her daughter ; the
gipsy man said, Mother, I have brought you a girl, doyou
take her; then she asked E. Canning whether she would
go her way.—What did she mean by that?—Vertue
Hall. She meant for her to turn whore, but she would
Dot.—Eo you mention this by way of explanation, or
as words as she said?—Vertue Hall. As words as she
said : then Mary Squires took a knife out of a dresser
drawer in the kitchen, and ripped the lace off her stays,
and pulled them off, and hung them on the back of a
chair