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Brown
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Wme Much abt. 6 Month but past that Yesterday he & his Bror
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who also lives with
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the Dept where 10 o' Clock & saw nothing of the
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Deced last hight the row this Morning abt. ¼ before or of the
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Clock being the first person where was up & went down Stairs & there
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sair the Deced lying on the Stairs which leads to the passage
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she observed much Blood about the Deced whereupon she went
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immediately & called thereon
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to Mr. Brown who
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dead &
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saith that the Deced frequently has
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who must
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have done last night she does not know when he come
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in liquor but the
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his sine that his
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was not in Liquor horn abt. 8 o'Clock & both came to his
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Verdict
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Jas. Gordon
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Accidental Death
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