Newport Chartists Vol.15, p.87

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Reg[ina] vs
__________man with the wooden leg

Margaret Davies Wife of Thomas
Davies of the Friars field
Newport Labourer states
I was at home Sunday night
____next mo[rn]ing about 9 o clock
3 Novr I heard ^ the Chartists
were coming to Newport I
had sent my Children to School
before hand I was alarmed
and went out to fetch them
back
I saw a great number of people
armed. I was opposite
W Williams's the Druggist in
Commercial Street I looked
up & down the road I could
not see my Children and I
went on toward the Westgate
When I came there I met a vast
quantity of people coming
down Stow Hill way I looked
for my Children again

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but could not see them
When I saw the mob with
their Guns inclined to murder
I began to look out if I cod
_____________who was
see my Son
at the Hills I was fearful
he was amongst them I
could not see him I was
then exactly in front of the
Westgate by Mr Jenkins's
(the Clerk of the Church's) Door
I stood there a few minutes
before I heard the Guns going
off. I then saw the Mob going
up the Steps of the Westgate
& I then heard two or three
Guns going off I then tried
to get away but I could
hardly do it I went across

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_________by the Shop called the Anchor House
________close by the back gates of the Westgate
the Road by the side of the Westgate
__in a place where they kept the Shutters
I saw a Man there ^ loading his
Gun. I saw him coming out
again & fire thro' the Westgate
Window He then went back
again and I saw him come
out and fire again into the
Window where the Soldiers
were. And he went back again
not go off a third
time he put

Man with
and came out pointed his Gun
a third time but it did not go off
and he put back the Cock and
struck the butt of his ^ gun against
his Wooden leg put up his
Gun and fired a third time
into the window where the
Soldiers were He was
the most active Man with
a Wooden leg I ever saw
I was about 4 yards from him
him during this time. He appeared

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between 50 and 60 years of age. He
had on a white ^ dirty Blanket Jacket
very long down over his hips
and dark Trowsers A Jim Crow
Hat covered with oil case
He was near 6 feet high He wore
large Whiskers and was a ruffianly
looking man. He had lost his
left leg below the Knee. After
he had done firing I said to
him in Welsh Well, Well you
have done that that is very wrong
they are coming after you & you
will be sure to be taken. He turned
short round took his Gun which
was on his Shoulder and Cocked
it and I though he was going
to shoot me but he put the Gun
down and carried it swinging
in his hand down the Street towards
the Parrot & turned up Charles Street
towards Stow Hill when I lost
sight of him. He had a blue