Citation - Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia: 1779.08.26

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Index Entry Covent Garden Theatre, scene of murder of Miss Ray 
Location London 
Citation
PP-P.779.100
26 Aug 1779:21, 22
London, April 17.  Yesterday morning about nine o'clock the
Rev. Mr. Hickman was brought from Newgate to the bar of the
session house in the Old Bailey, where he was arraigned for
firing a pistol at Miss Ray, as she was coming out of Covent
Garden Play-House, on Wednesday the 7th instant, which
killed her on the spot, to which indictment he pleaded not
guilty;
. . . [12 paragraphs on evidence and sentence]


Generic Title Pennsylvania Packet-Philadelphia 
Date 1779.08.26 
Publisher Dunlap, John 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1779 
Bibliography B0040477
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