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City and Liberty
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Informations of Witnesses taken the
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on View of the Body of
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John
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then and there lying dead.
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Charles Allen
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of
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on his Oath
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saith that he knew deced for six months last past, says that he
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saw deced on last friday Night and deced then promised to come
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on Saturday Morning to do something to a Weg of Deponent but Mistress
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did not come, deced being then very much in Liquor, deponent
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went to Deced on Sunday to his own House in little
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, when deced desired to see depot. on Monday, says that
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he came accordingly on Monday Morning about 8. or 9. oClock
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and knocking at the Deced Shop Door and nobody opening it, Says that
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the Door leading thro the Passage to the Bed Chamber of the
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Deced being opened, Deponent went in, and knocked at the
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Bed Chamber Door, and nobody Answering, Deponent looked
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thro the Key Role, and saw the Deced leaning with his feet
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towards the
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that he immediately went to
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Timothy Moor
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, who went with
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Edward Ladbrook
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to the Deced Bad Chamber Door, which
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they found Locked and the Key being the inside of the Door says that Mr. Moor sent for a
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to force open the Door, says that the Carpenter immediately
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found open the Door, upon which they went into the Room and discovered
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the Deced hanging by a small Cord fixed to some Wooden Pegs
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by the Bed side says that the Deced was then Dead having felt
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his hand, which ,was Cold. Deponent says that he cut the Cord, and
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Deced fell upon the Bed, His Clothes being all on, Shoes & Stockings
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The Mark of
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Charles Allen
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