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to a local dressmaker. Chorley was angered by
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of Leeds, William Bell, and some police officers managed to form a cordon round the house and withstood several attempts by the protestors to break through the police line to the house. During the lunch hour the numbers of people in the square increased as workers came to view the affair. The Mayor
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The case was widely reported and many people considered the prosecution petty and the punishment harsh. The critics also drew attention to the circumstances of the trial which for reasons unexplained had been heard in private, not in public as normal, and before magistrates known to
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to be released from which a smaller number of people, about 700, protested outside
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