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with him, yet in April she showed unmistakable signs of being pregnant, and one day in May she was seen going from her house to the woods several times, and on the next day the child was found with its throat cut out; and Polly had every appearance according to the testimony of the Com'ths witness Dr. J Thornton of having been delivered of a child.

The circumstantial evidence was strong to show that she was pregnant and consequently destroyed her child at the time of its birth, and that in ignorance of the heinous crime she was committing, she destroyed it, without regarding it as a human being, to save [[strikethrough]] the life [[/strikethrough]] her older children from starving.

The testimony of her former owner Mr G. H. Jennings was that she was always very kind and affectionate to her children. He, as well as the colored people acquainted with her from youth, also testified that she was a clever, good natured woman without maliciousness, very ignorant and dull, and lacking even the common sense natural to the colored people. And her employer for this year testifies he has no doubt but she did the deed

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