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a
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Convict under Sentence of Death and ordered for execution
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on Wednesday next into the Cell in Newgate where he was
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confined about ½ past five in the Evening of Saturday
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last having previously chained him to the Floor the
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Chain presents the person who is chained from getting to
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the Window that the deced at the time Dept abt him
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appeared very low in which that he had a Night Gown
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and a Cap on and his stocking his with Garters of a Red
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and White Colour that Yesterday about ½ past nine in
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the Morning Dept went to unlock the Cell Door wherein
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he had left the deced the proceeding Evening
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in order
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to take the deced Breakfast to him that upon opening the
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Cell Door he found the deced. hanging by Air Garters
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fastened round the end of an Iron Ball that goes through
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the Wall of the Cell that he was quite suspended from the
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Floor that he was quite dead and cold and must have
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hanged sometime Dept. locked the Cell Door and under
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and acquainted his Matter Mr. Kirby who with Owen
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Dept. & and the person returned to the Cell that Owen
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cut the deced down and placed him on his Bed
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Oath that he was with the last Witness at the time of the deced was locked
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up on the Saturday
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Evening that Dept assisted in
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Chaining the deced. to the Floor that while Dept was so
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doing the deced. asked Dept. why he would not drink a
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would rather not the deced. sayed he wondered Dept.
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would not come into him Dept answered it being a
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Busy time with the sessions he could not deced. sayed
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