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Strangulation about his Neck and after strict
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Inquiry of his Wife who was in the House and
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had slept with the deceased the last Night
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she
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produced a small Cord which she took
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out of her Pocket by
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which she said she
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found him hanging and which was tied round
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the Beam of the said drying Horse and the other
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End round his Neck and being a Poor ignorant
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Irish woman she said it was a shame
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a man
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should hang himself and can not imagine
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why he should hang himself, this Deponent
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further saith that there was a Chair in the Room
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near where the deceased lay on the Ground and
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upon the Horse a recent Mark where a Cord
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had been and nearly over where the Body lay
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and from Circumstances this Deponent is of
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opinion that in a fit of Lunacy he had hanged
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himself
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S. Hanbury
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Ann Hawley
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being sworn deposeth that he
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had been acquainted with the deceased and his
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Wife for several Years and has slept in the said
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House for some time past that
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he and his Wife lived very
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happy together, that he
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was a
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in the 7th, Regiment of Foot and had been at
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Portsmouth
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came from thence to
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on Sunday Night
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last and appeared very dull & Melancholly
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That last Night he appeared to he very
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melancholy and went up Stairs and
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lay down on the Bed and not speak
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to them
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about ten Minutes after
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six he came to the Room door and
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called to his Daughter & this Deponent
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to get up, that about 7 this mong
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this Deponent saw him leaning on the
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Garret Stairs doing some thing to one
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of his Knees when she asked him
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how he did but she did not hear
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him make any answer soon after
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ward she went out to
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and when the returned between 11
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The Mark
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