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PG-P.750.081
11 Dec 1750:13 (1148)
London. . . Sept. 20. 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 made
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 her refusing to
comply with his lewd proposal, strangled her with her own
handkerchief, and then abused her dying and dead. Over come
with liquor, he was found asleep by the body . . .
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