Edmund Simpson Eyewitness Account

• Place: Manchester
• Role: Spectator
• Occupation: Hatter

Saw marching crowds (4000-5000) with music and colours. Shut his shop at 10 am.

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Edmund Simpson examined by Sergeant Hullock . —I am a hatter, and reside in Deansgate. I saw several bodies of people pass on the 16th of August. They had music and colours. The people marched nine or ten a-breast, and some part of them went in regular step. I shut my shop before ten o'clock, and kept it shut all day, I was afraid there would be a disturbance, and I was very much alarmed. I looked out of the up­stairs window.

Cross-examined by Mr. Hunt – I was not afraid of the cavalry at all. I did not hear a report that the cavalry would attack the people. (In an­swer to the Judge). Between 4,000 and 5,000 persons passed my house.

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