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Page2of3 ~IOAS SUITERFlELD, ESQUIRE, lawyer: .Lives in Hyde Park with wife and two children. .Only member of his immediate family to contract cholera. .Won most recent case, defending a Broad Street butcher accused of selling spoiled meat. • Recovering. Tl RIGH'P, wealthy 90-year-old spinster: .Lived alone (with her three servants) in the family mansion in Marston Court. .Great-aunt of Thomas Butterfield. .Only member of the household to contract cholera. .Died in a matter of hours. TOY ART1, 10 years old, professional pick- pocket: .Homeless orphan who slept in doorways around Soho Square. .Occasionally roamed quite far from Soho, looking for wealthier citizens to rob. • Died of cholera two days after a fist fight with another boy at Broad Street Square. ON AND OBEDIENCE and their three children: • Lived on Paddy Lane behind butcher shop on Broad Street. .Owen Turner, who was lame, earned small change cleaning up the day's slops at the butcher shop. • Entire family died of cholera. JOHN AND AY CANTY, tinkers from Soho: .Pulled their cart through wealthy neighborhoods, mending pots and pans for the well-to-do. .Often stopped to visit John's ailing mother who lived on Butcher Lane. .Both died of cholera. SLYE CHILDREN, ages 7, 8, and 10: .Three of the eight children of Gideon and Lucy Slye. .Gideon Slye is a Broad Street butcher accused of selling spoiled meat. •Slye family recently moved to Kings Cross from Broad Street and now have indoor plumbing. .When not in school, three of the Slye children often accompanied their father to work and played on Broad Street Square. .These three are the only family members to contract cholera. .Two died; one recovering. MUCKY JOHNSON, 18, delivery boy ftom Coventry Circle: .Delivered fresh seafood from Coventry Market to wealthy homes iff Marston Court. .Often stopped to eat lunch and talk to people on Broad Street Square; said the water from the Broad Street pump was the best in the city. .Died of cholera. Poison Pump