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POLICEMAN Extract
from letter from 13/1/1873 from Geo Whitley I beg to acknowledge the receipt
of your two letters of the 11th and 12th instant enclosing
haloes of a £5 note for the benefit of the Policeman at Speke and his family
and will take care that it is properly disposed of, he will I feel sure be
grateful for your liberal donations. I called at his house last night and found
him & his five little children without any assistance, his mother and only
relative having been obliged to return to her home near Preston but she had
kindly taken one little child with her leaving five at home, the poor baby 7
months old has from its birth been hand fed and another three years old can
neither walk or speak. I have no doubt from your kind consideration I shall be
able to find a woman to take charge of the house for the present. Names
of men of the Speke Subdivision Lieut.
F. Williams
Hale.
Wm. Prescott
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