John Heap< no role > of St. George's Bloomsbury Brick layer 's
Labourer says that last Saturday he was at work at
Mr. Burgess's Shed in St. Martin's Lane , facing pipe
Maker's Alley and on Seeing a Mob in pipe natures
Alley he went there to see what was the matter
and was informed that a Child had fallen down a
Vault or Necessary there, says be look up the pavemt
near the Necessary, and likewise the Covering, and
While a person by was putting down a Ladder, to force
the covering up; Dept. Shipt himself, and then
went down into the Vault to save the Child, and brot.
the deced out in his arms whom he is certain was
then dead; says be believes from the time of his
taking up the pavement to the time of taking out
the Child wight be twenty minutes; says a Surgeon
attempted to bleed the deced but in Vain, be being
dead.

The [mark] Mark
of John Heap< no role > .

Mary< no role > the Wife of Morgan Flarty< no role > of Pipe mal ers
alley St. Martin's Bricklayer 's Labourer on her Oath
Saith that in the said Alley there is a publick necessary
for the use of the Inhabitants; and a Convenionce there
for Children. Says that last Saturday afternoon
between five and Six her son the decedwas playingwent out into
the alley and was playing with Ann Ellison< no role > an Infant about five years of
age, that in about three minutesmonthsafterwards the sd
Ann Ellison< no role > cryed out in the Vault, Mr. Flarty
Jerry is down, Upon Which Dept. went directly to
the Vault and there saw only Ann Ellison< no role > says that
she then immediately asked her when her son was
to which said Ellison answered down the Vault
that immediately she alarmed the neighborhood
and she was informed by a person Who looked on
his Wattle, that it was just ten minutes from the time
of Ellison's to crying out to the time of the deceds being
taken up, says She was not by when he was
taken up, but he was brought to her directly
and was then dead; says She lay her son out
and there were no Brucies or Fractures about live,
so that she verily believes he was Smothered in
the Vault.

The of Mark
[mark]
Mary Flarty< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year and Place abovementioned
before me Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner }