Southwark

Informations of Witnesses taken at the
parish of Saint Saviour within
the Bord of Southwark in the County
of Surrey 26th Augt 1797 on view of
the body of a female Child there
lying dead

Elizabeth Wife< no role > of John Farmer< no role > of Suffolk Street in
the parish of Saint George Southwark maketh oath that last
Thursday morning William Special, who is a Dustman and in whom
employ this Dept is came home with his Dust Cart accompanied
by Francis Freestone< no role > a young man< no role > in his service Says the
Dust Cart was traded, and they shot it upon the Dust him in Specials
Yard, and Special look up the deced Infant in his hand and
sayed he would dig a hole and Jury it, that he could do nothing
else with it says Special look it out of the Rubbish and that it
was caused with a Cloth that the matter was mentioned about
and special & freestone his Servant werewasapprehended and some
to prison Says that freestone at the same time told this Dept
in the presence of Special that the Child came out
of the Cellar of a Haberdashers & Stocking Shop
opposite Saint Thomas's Hospital amongst some
Shavings and Saw dust and the Dust came from under the some
Stairs in the same House was he Street

Sworn the 26th. Augt 1797
before me
T. Shelton Corr.}

The Mark of
Eliz: [mark] Farmer

John Burden< no role > Kent of the Borough high Street
Surgeon maketh oath that last Thursday evening he
examined the body of the deced female persent Says as mark
of violence appeared upon it, except that on one of its feet,
the toes of which were cut of with a Shore or some such
thing as Dept believes Says she Child appeared so be about a
seven or eight month Child the have String appeared to have