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Deposition of Witnesses taken at the Parish
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this 14th. day of
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August 1793 on view of the Body of
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Robert Barron
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now here lying Dead.
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Robert Cooper
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a Hat maker lodging as No. 37
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Street
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maketh Oath that between the hours of eight
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and nine yesterday Morning Dept. passing along
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Bermondsey
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Street just on he got to the House No. 48 he heard a
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exclaim O'h my husband My husband in dead Dept. stops the
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within sayed Oh Lord he has hanged himself Dept.
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immediately went into said Home which Dept. understood
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was kept by the deced and on going into a Wash house in the
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Yard of the House he found the deced hanging by a piece of
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Cord fastened to a Hook in the Door Port of the Wash house within side
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that the Hook being a little way from the Ground the deced
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appeared in a sitting postureDept. cut the deced down
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that after he had cut him down he took the Cord from round
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his Neckthat he was quite dead. and cold all over him except
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the pit of his Stomach which felt a little warm Dept. thinks
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the deced must have been hanging some timethat a
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who appeared to be the Wife of the deced and who was the
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same Dept. apprehend he had heard crying out as before
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stated was standing in
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of the House and appeared
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very much concerned and affected on the occassion and
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cryed out very muchthat some people came in about
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the same timethat a
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came in and fell the deced
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pulse sayed he could do nothing for him for that he must have
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hanged some time.
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of No. 239
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Bermondsey
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Cordwainer
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced
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about
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between three and four Months since he first came to the House
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he now lyes dead inthat upon the alarm being given Yesterday
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Morning he went to the deced House and was present when
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the last Witness cut the deced down Dept. has observed the
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deced since he came into the Neighbourhood to appear very
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dull and Melancholy and has seen him walking backwards
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and forwards in his Shop very rejected and Melancholy.
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his
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John
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