“½ past 9 this evening I was called in to the Bell public house, Tower Place, there found the servant who appeared to be in liquour abusing Mrs Tulipson, I recommended Mrs T to give him his wages and I left her to go about her business, she sayd she would not pay him but she might go on coming by a quarter of an hour after……. The servant sayd Mrs Tulipson had starved him and has pushed him down in the street

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