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<p n="21">Mathews had used him like a Theif & adulterer when Mr Mathews desired him to be<lb></lb>
Seated & not expose himself in publick Company this Deponent heard both the Pistolls<lb></lb>
believes they were fired by Steirn for Deponent heard Steirn say he wished he<lb></lb>
had killed himself as well as hims meaning Mathews there was no other<lb></lb>
person killed in the Company. Depont. after the Report of the second Pistoll saw<lb></lb>
Mr. Mathews expiring</p>
<p n="22">E. Ashurst</p>
<p n="23"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n23-1">Samuel Chapman</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50486_geo20">Hatton Garden</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50486_occ8">Surgeon</rs>
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on his Oath says That on<lb></lb>
this Day he hath viewed the Body of the above named <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n23-2">Richard Mathews</rs>
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Lying dead<lb></lb>
at the House of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n23-3">John Pugh</rs>
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the said <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50486_geo21">Pewter Platter </rs>
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That upon examineing the sd<lb></lb>
Body there appeared a wound in the upper part of the Sternum or Breast bone<lb></lb>
a little towards the left side & that the wound penetrated the Cavity of the Breast.<lb></lb>
The Ball, as this Depont. believes, passed thro the upper part of the Lungs &<lb></lb>
was the Occasion of the Death of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n23-4">Richard Mathews</rs>
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. 16 Augt. 1760</p>
<p n="24"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50486_n24-1">Samuel Chapman</rs>
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