Town and Borough of
Southwark in the County
of Surrey }

Depositions of Witnesses taken at the Parish
of Saint Olave within the Town and Borough
of Southwark in the County of Surrey the 6th:
day of October 1789 on view of the Body of
Thomas Fitterton< no role > then and there lying
Dead

Ann Wife of John Prop< no role > of No.16 Battle Bridge in the
Parish of Saint Olave within the Borough of Southwark Hair-
dresser maketh Oath and saith that between the hours of Six
and Seven in the Evening of Saturday last she saw the deced
going into a Stable next door to where she lives as aforesaid
that she spoke to the deced and called him by a Name he used
to go by which was "Daddy" he answered and sayed "yes
Child" that he appeared very dull and [..] Melancholy
that for some Weeks past he has seemed very dull and
disconsolate and when Dept has been talking to him he
has often wished himself out of the World and expressed
himself discontented at different times That in discourse he
once told her his Scull had been front were about twenty years ago and a piece taken
out of his Scull and has offered to show it Dept: And Dept.
really believes the deced to have been desired in his Sences

Sworn the 6th. day of October 1789
before me}

T.Shelton Corr.

Ann prop

John Pointer< no role > of No.3 now Walk Dock head in the Parish of Saint
John within the Borough of Southwark Carman and Benjamin
Mann< no role > a Lodger at Mrs. Ponders the Plymouth Arms [..]
Bridge Watchman severally make Oath and say and
first this Dept. John Pointer< no role > saith about half past Ten in the Morning
of Sunday last he saw the Dept. Benjn. Mann< no role > [..] at the
Door of a Stable belonging to the Noll Copper Company situate
next door to No.16 Battle Bridge aforesaid that they both
tried the Door but found it fastened inside that the Dept
John Pointer< no role > looked through a Hole in the Stable Door and
saw the deced hanging by a Rope that they both broke the
Stable Door open and went in and found the deced [..]
hanging