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Image 81 of 57328th March 1788


him first charging Deft that, if anything happened to the deced
to awake the Landlord & let him know; that Dept continued awake
an hour or thereabouts & then went to Sleep. Dept got up about Six
o'Clock and went to his work leavg. the deced in bed who appeared to Dept
as he had done when brot Lane. Dept saw no more of him afterwards
until he was dead.

John Smith< no role >

Sworn the 28th. day of
March 1788 before me}

Tho: Beach< no role >
Coroner .

Solomon Wadd< no role > of Basinghall Street London Surgeon
maketh oath that he this day examined the body of the deced
and several slight bruises appeared externally on various parts of him;
that he appeared to have vomited food and also blood, that there was
a bruise on the night side of the Chest of the deced which appeared to
have been given him some time before the others but it did not appear
to Dept who examined particularly that any ill consequences had ensued
to [..] the deced from that bruise. That Dept open'd the body of the
deced & found that the sixth and seventh ribs on this left side were
fractured the Points of [..] which had penetrated the Cavity of the Thorax
and wounded the [..] whereby a considerable hammorhage had been
occasioned and which Dept has no doubt was the cause of the deceds
death.

S. Ward

Sworn the 28th. day of
March 1788 before me}

Tho: Beach< no role >
Coroner .

William Pullen< no role > of Green Arbour Court aforesaid maketh
oath that on Wednesday night last the deced was bro't house to Depts.
house where he lodged & was put to bed-Dept says he then laboured under
a difficulty of breathing; that next morning Dept saw the deced & offered
him water but he could neither speak or drink-the Dept moisterer
his mouth with water. Says the deced died the same morng.

Sworn the 28th. Day of
March 1788 before me}

Tho: Beach< no role >
Coroner .

William Pullen< no role >




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