State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
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State Trials, Political and Social. Volume 2 (of 2)
Trials -- Great Britain
COWPER--If your lordship pleases to give leave to Mr. Gurrey to
recollect himself, I ask him, Whether he did not talk with his
sister Davis about some suspicion his wife and he had about
Sarah Walker, the maid-servant of the deceased?
J. GURREY--I believe there might be some talk of a person that
was seen to go into the churchyard at some distance with Sarah
Walker.
COWPER--Did your wife say that she did suspect that person?
J. GURREY--Yes.
COWPER--Did your wife say they behaved themselves strangely,
and that she would have persuaded the widow Blewit to have
watched her?
J. GURREY--There was something of that.
COWPER--Was there not some such words, that they must not
meddle with Sarah Walker, for she is the witness against the
Cowpers?
J. GURREY--I said, Do not concern yourself with Sarah Walker,
for fear of taking off her evidence.
COWPER--Pray did not the widow Davis warm the sheets for these
gentlemen?
J. GURREY--She was with my wife, but I cannot say whether she
warmed the sheets.
COWPER--When they came home, had you any lodgers that wanted to
come home? Had not you one Gape?
J. GURREY--I cannot say whether he was in before or after them.
COWPER--Did not you say to your sister Davis, Now these
gentlemen are in bed, if Mr. Gape would come home, our family
would be quiet?
J. GURREY--I do not remember that.
COWPER--Pray, did not you go to look for Mr. Gape?
J. GURREY--Yes, I went to Hockley's.
COWPER--Who did you employ to speak to Mr. Gape?
J. GURREY--Mrs. Hockley.
COWPER--When you came home to your own house, and after you
had been at Hockley's to speak with Mr. Gape, what account did
you give of the time of night, and other particulars?
J. GURREY--I gave no account of the time.
COWPER--Not to Mrs. Davis?
J. GURREY--I cannot tell whether I did or no.
COWPER--Did not you say, Mr. Gape asked Mrs. Hockley what
a-clock it was?
J. GURREY--No, I do not remember that; but Mrs. Hockley went
in, and told him what time of night it was; it was eleven or
twelve of the clock, which I cannot say.
JONES--Call Martha Gurrey. (Who was sworn.) Which of these
gentlemen do you know?
MRS. GURREY--Mr. Marson, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Stephens.
JONES--What time of the night was it when they came to your
house? give an account of it, and what you heard them say.
MRS. GURREY--It was a little after five, or thereabouts that
they came.
JONES--Who came?
MRS. GURREY--Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Rogers, and there was one
Mr. Gilbert, that married a first cousin of mine; he came and
asked me for my husband; and I asked him his business, and he
said he wanted to speak to him.
JONES--Pray come to these men; when did they come to your
house?
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