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Deposition of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say at the parish of Saint Botolph
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without Aldgate in the Ward of Portsoken
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aforesaid this. 26th day of July 1793
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on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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John Collison
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of No. 4
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in the parish of Saint
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& Beadles of the
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said Parish maketh Oath that
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about ½ part ten O Clock
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last Night in consequence of some information from Mr.
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Abrahams of
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London Horner Dept. went to
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said Mr.
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Abraham House
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that in a Shed in
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Mr. Abrahams
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Yard Dept. found the deced (who was a Journey men to said
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Mr. Abrahams) hanging by a Cord fastened round or Beam
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in the Top of the Shed-that the deced was cut down and Dept
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desirethat he was quite deadthat Dept. afterwards
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acquainted the Ward Beadlethat the door of the shed was
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Locked inside when Dept. went first found the deced and was broken upon in
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Depts. presence
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Sarah Magson
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to Mr. Abrahams of Petticoat
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Lane aforesaid maketh Oath that she hath lived with
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Mr Abrahams about five years that she hath known the
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deced the whole) of that timethat about thirteen Months
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since the deced lost a Daughter who died as Dept. understood
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in a decline that since that time the deced has been employed
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setting up at Night to Watch Mr Abrhams premises while
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a Wall was repairingthat since the deceds
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died he has appeared very dull and Melancholy and
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when Dept. has spoke to him he has appeared lost in
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Thought, and would say he thought his Daughter was
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with him and one time in particular since his
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died the deced sayed he thought him Daughter had been
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pulling him by the Coat.
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