John Turner Eyewitness Account

• Place: Middleton,Rochdale
• Role: Spectator
• Occupation: Draper,Tailor

Saw no large sticks in the crowd. Not alarmed by procession to SPF.

Not a ‘reformer’.

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John Turner a tailor and draper at Middleton, examined by Mr. Bamford —Recollected the procession there on the morning of the 16th August, and its music and banners. I saw a number of women and children among them. I saw no large sticks, but a few old men carried their common walking sticks I was no ways alarmed while they passed, as I had no occasion to be alarmed. I saw none drunk or riotous. I am not a Reformer. I never gave a penny to the concern, nor ever did I see Mr. Hunt in my life, unless I see him in this Court, and yet I do not know him, I felt no alarm for Manchester by any means.

Sergeant Hullock—Well, then, you have had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Hunt by coming to York-

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