Trial of Mary Blandy by Unknown
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Cross-examined--Did you observe for the last three or four months
before his death that he declined in his health?--I observed he did; I do not say as to his health, but he seemed to shrink, and I have often told my wife my old friend Blandy was going. Had he lost any teeth latterly?--I do not know as to that; he was a good-looking man. PRISONER'S COUNSEL--How old was he?--I think he was sixty-two. [Sidenote: Mary Davis] MARY DAVIS, examined--I live at the Angel at Henley Bridge; I remember Miss Blandy coming over the bridge the day that Mr. Blandy was opened; she was walking along, and a great crowd of people after her. I, seeing that, went and asked what was the matter; I asked her where she was going? She said, "To take a walk for a little air, for they were going to open her father, and she could not bear the house." The mob followed her so fast was the reason I asked her to go to my house, which she accepted. Did she walk fast or slowly?--She was walking as softly as foot could be laid to the ground; it had not the least appearance of her going to make her escape. [Sidenote: R. Stoke] ROBERT STOKE, examined--I saw the prisoner with Mrs. Davis the day her |
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