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Janet Baxter Testimony

Witness number Thirteen For the Prosecution of Deacon Brodie and George Smith

 

Janet Baxter, servant to Adam Pearson, assistant secretary of the Excise, called in and sworn.

Witness—I was out upon a message about eight o’clock at night on Wednesday, the 5th of March last, and, returning homewards, I met with an acquaintance, with whom I conversed for a little in the entry to Chessels’s Buildings, in which my master lived. I then went down the close, and on my way down I saw a man, dressed in a whitish great-coat and slouch hat, leaning over the rails at the entry to the court, and, judging him to be a light or suspicious person, I was afraid of him, and ran into my master’s house.

 

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