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London Informations of Witnesses taken at the
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maketh oath that this morning between five and six he
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came to the house of the dead with pish from
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informed by the dawn of the deced who had been to market & came house
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with him that their father was missing, and Dept looked for him &
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went top down into the Cellar & on the Stairs ran against the deced
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who was hanging by an Lair line pastened to the rail of the Bannister
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of the StairsThat Dept called assistance & hold the Canble while
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John Humphry
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who came into license cant him down. A
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was sent immedy at the dead was quite dead. Depts says the
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dead was at times and of his mind which was thereupon he did not
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go to market himselfsays three in out house or thereabouts the
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deced are taken to Doctor precite Head house & was afterward
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A Bethlem.
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Sworn the 21st. day of August
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1788 before me
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