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& understood
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the Business perfectly well he was
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employed yesterday to lift up the Lids of the
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Boiler (about one o'Clock) about 2 o'Clock on this
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Dept had returned from Dinner & was just entering
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the warehouse he saw at the end he he have the
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one of the Coppers then nearly
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full of boiling Soap. this Dept. went immediately
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to the Copper but did not see the deced the
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perceived that the Rope belongs to of the Lid of the opposite
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found the deced at the bottom of the boiler this
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