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Wm Chambers I live in Fothergill
Street I am a single man & lodge
with Johanna Rayden I work for
Mr Storm at the Dock . Yesterday
morning before 8 oclock Jno Taylor who
also works for Mr Storm / & / asked if I
would join the Chartists. I told them I
did not know. After I went to bed
Jno Taylor came to call me between 10 &
11 oclock & said I was bound to go with them.
I went with him to the Turnpike the
other side of Mill Street. There was another
chap with us who works for Mr Edwards the
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Taylor. Jno Taylor took me to his
own house which is in Llanarth Street
& there in found the Taylor. There were four women in the house of
whom Taylors wife was one. After
staying sometime at Taylors house
we then went together to the turnpike
- there were a parcel of people on
the other side of the turnpike - there
people were some of them armed.
Some had guns some had spears
on the top of long sticks & some had
bayonets & other things. I know
amongst them ^ Patrick Hickey an Irishman
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who works for Mr Storm at the Dock
James Warn - who works for Mr Storm
Several of the Stonecutters
a few of the stone Masons.
There were lots of men there besides
the Dock Men. I should know the
Dock Men by sight. They stood there
until some people from Ponty pool came
down around Some with guns & some
with swords - the Ponty pool people took
two gentlemen out of the gigs - & forced them
with them - they all went together along
a bye road towards Risca I got away
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Dep of Wm Chambers
Reg vs Jno Taylor
______ Patrick Hickey
[in pencil alongside] & James Warn & others unknown
from them & they went on . I overtook
another man on the road the other side
of the poor house. I understood
they were going to take the people at
Newport who were against the Chartists
when they were last here & to make
prisoners of the officers - I heard many of the people say they
wanted their revenge upon the people
who were against the Chartists when
they were here before. I think the
people waited 3 or 4 hours at Risca
I know there were men there a
couple of hundred of them
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