Almost there with the deciphering of witness statements! This one is from the accused, the man who pushed down my 2x great-grandfather, causing him to bang his head and fracture his skull
Here is what I have so far:
'William Brown, sworn saith I am an agricultural labourer out of work(?), and live in (?)gate
I was near the G N Ry (Great Northern Railway) XXX about 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon
Nothing to do
I had not seen Stanford before that day
He came out of the Hotel
I was on the opposite side of the road, sitting on a
against the path(?)
He came across then to me and began to pull his jacket off
I told him to go away as I thought he had had some drink
He then went back to the Hotel and came out again in about 10 minutes, and I was then
the pavement
He put his hand up and said he was going to
you one
I put my hand out/up to stop the blow and punched him
Backwards he fell, and I heard him hit the ground
There had not been any words between us
We were friends
There was no old grievances between us
There had not been any larking(?) about at the time
William Brown
Verdict
The deceased man died from fracture of the skull from a fall on to the pavement, having been pushed down by William Brown by misadventure on the 27th May
The jury
of John William Stanford, William Turner, Robert Mease, Henry Lathom, James Browning, James Hall, William Brown were
to before me at the time and
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