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ACCOUNT OF JAMES HOW. 417
carried her through the fields, and conveyed her to Gar-
lic-Hill to the house of Mrs. B. their employer; where
with threats they obliged her to give a draft at a short date
on Mr. Williams, payable to Mrs. B., on wThich she was
set at liberty.
It was now the month of July 1765. On Monday the
14th Mrs. B. went to Mr. Williams with the draft to
enquire if he would pay it, as it would be due the fol-
lowing Wednesday; he replied that if she would bring it
when due, he should know better what to say. In the
mean time he applied to the bench of justices for advice,
and on the Wednesday a constable was sent, with orders
to be in readiness in his house. Mrs. B. punctually at-
tended with the draft; bringing the mulatto with her;
they were both immediately taken into custody, and car-
ried before the justices sitting at the Angel in Whitechapel,
whither Mr. Williams repaired attended by Mary East, in
the proper habit of her sex. The awkwardness of her be-
haviour, occasioned by the alteration of her dress, was
such as to afford considerable diversion.
In the course of the examination Mrs. B. denied
having sent for the sum of one hundred pounds, which
the men had demanded, but the mulatto declared that if
she had not sent him on such an errand, he should never
have gone. By their numerous contradictions they com-
pletely unfolded the villany of their designs ; and the
strongest proof being adduced of the extortion and
assault, they were both committed to Clerkenwell till
the sessions to be tried for the same. The other man
who was engaged in this nefarious transaction, would
have been included in their punishment, had he not by
flight evaded the arm of justice.
It should have been observed, that before the supposed
wife of James How died, finding herself indisposed, she
went to her brother’s in Essex, for the benefit of the air,
Eccentric, No. IX. 3 h and
carried her through the fields, and conveyed her to Gar-
lic-Hill to the house of Mrs. B. their employer; where
with threats they obliged her to give a draft at a short date
on Mr. Williams, payable to Mrs. B., on wThich she was
set at liberty.
It was now the month of July 1765. On Monday the
14th Mrs. B. went to Mr. Williams with the draft to
enquire if he would pay it, as it would be due the fol-
lowing Wednesday; he replied that if she would bring it
when due, he should know better what to say. In the
mean time he applied to the bench of justices for advice,
and on the Wednesday a constable was sent, with orders
to be in readiness in his house. Mrs. B. punctually at-
tended with the draft; bringing the mulatto with her;
they were both immediately taken into custody, and car-
ried before the justices sitting at the Angel in Whitechapel,
whither Mr. Williams repaired attended by Mary East, in
the proper habit of her sex. The awkwardness of her be-
haviour, occasioned by the alteration of her dress, was
such as to afford considerable diversion.
In the course of the examination Mrs. B. denied
having sent for the sum of one hundred pounds, which
the men had demanded, but the mulatto declared that if
she had not sent him on such an errand, he should never
have gone. By their numerous contradictions they com-
pletely unfolded the villany of their designs ; and the
strongest proof being adduced of the extortion and
assault, they were both committed to Clerkenwell till
the sessions to be tried for the same. The other man
who was engaged in this nefarious transaction, would
have been included in their punishment, had he not by
flight evaded the arm of justice.
It should have been observed, that before the supposed
wife of James How died, finding herself indisposed, she
went to her brother’s in Essex, for the benefit of the air,
Eccentric, No. IX. 3 h and