Newport Chartists Vol.12, p.33

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[top of page ] Reg[ina] vs Lovell

Thos Dyer Butler of Mr W T H Phelps
Stow Hill
of Newport Says
I heard a report in Newport that the Chartists
were coming down from the Hills on

Sunday last to take Newport I was on
the look out Sunday and Sunday
night but they did not come. About

8 O'clock on Monday morning last I heard people
running down Stow Hill saying the

Chartists were coming shortly after &
saw a large Mob I shd think upwards of 2000

coming down the Hill there were ten Men
in front with flannel jackets they appeared to be
I went into
Colliers and then the Body came about 3
Deep marching like Soldiers I was [?] looking[*]

my master's dining Room with my ...[?]
and the Cook We saw the prisoner John

Lovell whom I knew marching with the Mob
he had a single Barrel Gun in his Hands

as he passed he looked up at my Masters House
and seeing me [?]thru the window beckoned

his Hand and said Come along Dyer
and marched on . I did not go out of the
[?] the
House till the firing was over and every
thing appeared quiet The Mob appeared

to be armed with Pikes Guns
Hatchets Cleavers & ...[?] shears I saw

an old man amongst the Mob with a
Mandril or some such weapon He

is one of the men ^ now laying dead. It
r .
it is the same man that was
laying opposite the mayors House

[*or ?? 'working']

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Newport

Reg[ina] v[ersus] Lovell

Dep[ositio]n of Tho[ma]s
Dyer
[a large X is placed across the above heading]

[centre of page ] Committed



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