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5th December 1771 - 16th December 1772

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Image 178 of 69523rd April 1772


Bleeding very fast the said Patrick Murphy< no role >
was Conveyed as soon as Possible to the Middlesex
Hospital where this Informant went in about
two hours & found the said Patrick Murphy< no role >
Dead
And this Informant Thomas Lyons< no role > for
himself saith that [..] he is a Headbow:
in the parish of Saint Giles in the fields that
soon after seven o Clock this Morning he was
sent for to the Sign of the Drum in Newtoners
Lane St Giles to take into Custody a Woman
who had Stabbed a Man he accordingly went
where he saw the now Deceased Patrick Murphy< no role >
in a Dying Condition holding his hands upon his
Breast this Informant took a person now
present [..] who calls herself Judith
Whalin into Custody & put her in the Round house
then Returned & at the Top of Newtoners Lane
when he met the Deceased Patrick Murphy< no role >
laying upon a Chairman's Horse & Tow Men
Carrying of it this Informt. went with them
to the Middlesex Hospital that the said
Patrick Murphy< no role > never spoke & before any
Surgeon Could come to his Assistance he
expired

Severally Sworn before
Us the 25th. Day of April
1772}

John Lane< no role >
Geo: Reid

David Posser< no role >
Willm Bourk< no role >
Thos Lyon< no role >




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