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Smith's and informed one of his Family What had happend
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and brought the Driver whose Name he Knows not to
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, and from thence the Driver went at
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large, but was accidentally met by Mr. Bishop the
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Constable, and the
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was taken to Mr. Bishop's
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House, and he observed that the Driver was very much
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in Liquor, says Deponent taxed the Driver
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deced
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with the
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Death of the Child, and he said it was an Accident
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and he could not help it says the Cart was drawn by
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three Horses and were not very good Horses
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Sworn the
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18th. day of June 1770
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before me
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Tho: Beach
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Corr
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Thos. Bellamy
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Mary Martin
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Great Bath Street
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Widow
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on
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her Oath Saith that
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last Friday on hearing a
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great Screaming in the Street she ran to the Street
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Door & observed a Cart Passing along very Slow,
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and saw a Child under the Cart endeavouring to get
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up, and presently afterwards discovered another Child
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(meaning the deced) lying on the Ground dead to
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appearence, and they being on the further side of the Cart
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dept. says the off Wheel Passed over the deced, says She
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observed no Driver to have been attending the Cart
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verily believes that the accident would not
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have happened had there been a person attending the
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Cart.
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Sworn the 18th. day of June 1770
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before me
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Tho: Beach Corr.
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M Martin
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James Liversuch
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Saint John Street
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in the Parish
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of
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Saint James Clerkenwell
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in the County of Middx
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one of the Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish
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bound in the Penalty of £50 to prefer a Bill of
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Indictment at the next Session for London against
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John
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Woolley
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for the murder of
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Catharine Thorne
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an Infant
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and to prosecute him thereon and also on the Coroner's
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Inquisition.
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the several Evidence above named bound each in the penalty
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of £20. to appear then, and give Evidence on the sd Bill of
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Indictment and also on the Coroner's Inquisition
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