Minutes Deponent he and the Report of a Gun in the
deceaseds Room, and immediately run to his
Room Door opened it and immediately saw the
deceased laying on his back on the Bed with or
short Gun [..] laying between his legs with which
in appeared to this Deponent the deceased had that himself [..] through the
head part of his shall and brains Coming seattered
by the violence of the explosion over different parts
of the Bed and Room And Deponent South that
the deceased held a very respectable Situation
in the General Post office as mopelor of the
Letter Corriers and for some little time her
been in alow ddepending state of Mind frequently
expressing his fear that his head would he
taken from which Deponent is satisfied he
had no foundation for but were intially from on
uncommon depression of spirits

Michael Shaw< no role >