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to do so, he being under trouble at the time, and declines
farther answer to this question. Interrogated,
where she was from the period she left her master, Mr.
Saddletree’s family, until her appearance at her father’s,
at St. Leonard’s, the day before she was apprehended?
Declares, she does not remember. And, on the interrogatory
being repeated, declares, she does not mind muckle
about it, for she was very ill. On the question being again
repeated, she declares, she will tell the truth, if it should
be the undoing of her, so long as she is not asked to tell
on other folk; and admits, that she passed that interval
of time in the lodging of a woman, an acquaintance of
that person who had wished her to that place to be delivered,
and that she was there delivered accordingly of
a male child. Interrogated, what was the name of that
person? Declares and refuses to answer this question.
Interrogated, where she lives? Declares, she has no certainty,
for that she was taken to the lodging aforesaid
under cloud of night. Interrogated, if the lodging was
in the city or suburbs? Declares and refuses to answer
that question. Interrogated, whether, when she left the
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house of Mr. Saddletree, she went up or down the street?
Declares and refuses to answer the question. Interrogated,
whether she had ever seen the woman before she
was wished to her, as she termed it, by the person whose
name she refuses to answer? Declares and replies, not to
her knowledge. Interrogated, whether this woman was
introduced to her by the said person verbally, or by word
of mouth? Declares, she has no freedom to answer this
question. Interrogated, if the child was alive when it
was born? Declares, that—God help her and it!—it certainly
was alive. Interrogated, if it died a natural death
after birth? Declares, not to her knowledge. Interrogated,
where it now is? Declares, she would give her right
hand to ken, but that she never hopes to see mair than
the banes of it. And being interrogated, why she supposes
it is now dead? the declarant wept bitterly and
made no answer. Interrogated, if the woman, in whose
lodging she was, seemed to be a fit person to be with her
in that situation? Declares, she might be fit enough for
skill, but that she was an hard-hearted bad woman. Interrogated,
if there was any other person in the lodging