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faid he run down immediately, and found flie was not
dead then, for flie went up Stairs with his Help, and
fpoke to him fome Hours after that.
He refleCled always on a Woman, who declar'd fe-
veral Things contrary to this, that (he had no Good
Will to him.
As to the Evidence of two Men, who were Stran-
gers, and accidentally paffing by, who fwore, that the
Woman cried out. Murder ! for God's Sake ! for Chrifs
Sake f for our Family's Sake I for our Children's Sake !
don't murder me Robin, doiit caft me out of the Windmu,
&c. he faid, he heard no fuch Expreifions, and the
Fright flie was in for fear of his beating her unmerci-
fully, was the Ocoifion of her crying out Murder, i^c.
and then throwing herfelf out at the Window, but that
he did not ftrike her that Night, excepting two or three
hearty Blows, after his dragging her in, when ihe firll
went out at the Street Door.
I infifted that it was a very clear circumftantial
Proof againft him, they having declar'd, that they faw
a Man in the Room when flie went out of die Window,
fcff. and he ownM that tliere was no other Man in the
Houfe but himfelf He faid. He could not help it, but
the Matter 'was as he told it. I told him that it was of
no avail to deny the Murder, and I urg'd the Neceffity
and Expediency of Confeffion, from a great many
Reafons taken from Scripture and Reafon, i^c. but he
pcrfilled inflexible.
On Friday Morning the i ith Inftant, his ancient Fa-
ther came to vifit him, he fell on his Knees, wept and
cried moft bitterly, and infilled on his Innocency, at
leaft of heaving his Wife out at the Window, but he
©wn'd that he had been too fevere and hard upon her,
in fwearing at her, threat'ning and fright'ning her out
of her Wits and to Death, and he could not deny his
having beat her in a barbarous, cruel and outragious
manner.
He appear'd to be a difcreet, fenfible, knowing and
civil Man, but he feera'd to have been of a hafty paffio-
nate
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