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Witness Statement: Charles Young's testimony continued, followed by the beginning of Thomas Hasler's evidence of Richard Rorke being with the mob at the Westgate Inn.

Prisoner was not forced into the mob, he went of his own free will, I saw several persons run from the mob and persons running after them and bringing them back. I - did not see the Prisoner come out of any House in Charles Street that morning - I did not see him running thro' the crowd to the opposite side of the way
Taken before us Octavius Morgan James Coles Tho s Hawkins W Brewer T Phillips
Thomas Hasler - sworn says. I was - in the House of Sir Thomas Phillips Knight on Monday the 4 th November last - His House is situate opposite the Westgate Inn and divided from the Inn only by the Road leading from Stow Hill into the Town - I saw a crowd -that had come down Stow Hill turn round the Corner of the Westgate

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