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NYEP(D.750.037
10 Dec 1750:31 (290)
London. . . Sept. 18 . . . Our papers have taken some notice
of the condemnation of one Toby Gill, a Black, at the last
assizes for the county of Suffolk; but the enormity of his
crime, which was murder, has not been sufficiently known.
He was a drummer in Sir Robert Rich's regiment and a very
drunken profligate fellow. He met, or overtook, the poor
woman he murdered upon the road, and on refusing to comply
with his lewd proposal strangled her with her own
handkerchief, and then abused her dying and dead. Overcome
with liquor, he was found asleep by the body, and
immediately sent to prison. . .
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