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John Plackett and May Plackett v. Missouri. Hannah Lee Statement

 

Hannah Lee being duly sworn on her oath saith—that some day last week Mrs Placket told her that whenever the girl now present made her angry she threw her on the fire and would do so again—that she saw Mr Placket take a broom handle and beat the said girl over the head & that she also saw Mrs Placket do the same at a different time—that she saw the girl with a rope round her neck and Mrs Placket pulling her down stairs--

Sworn to and subscribed before me 19th December 1825 P Ferguson J.P.

Hannah Lee

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “John Plackett and May Plackett v. Missouri. Hannah Lee Statement.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0026.012

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