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<p n="674">London Depositions of Witnesses taken at<lb></lb>
London that is to say at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo598">Allhallows Barking</rs>
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in the Ward<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo599">Tower in London</rs>
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aforesaid this<lb></lb>
22d. day of April 1795 on view of the<lb></lb>
Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n674-1">Robert Beeho</rs>
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now here<lb></lb>
lying Dead</p>
<p n="675"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n675-1">Thomas Moss</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo600">Cliff</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo601">County of Sussex</rs>
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Kings<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ192">Officer</rs>
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maketh Oath that about one OClock yesterday<lb></lb>
afternoon Dept. being in a yard belonging to <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo602">East India Cos</rs>
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.<lb></lb>
private Trade Warehouse adjoint the Corn Market in<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo603">Mark Lane</rs>
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London found something falling behind<lb></lb>
him upon which he looked<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
up at a Loop Hole<lb></lb>
in the fifth Story of the Warehouse Dept. then looked<lb></lb>
round & saw a Man Legs & then discovered it to be the<lb></lb>
deced that he was lying upon his Belly on the pavement<lb></lb>
Dept. examined him that he had no pulse & was dead-that<lb></lb>
a great quantity of blood came from his Month and<lb></lb>
Head-that his right Leg appeared to be broken-that<lb></lb>
since he has been stripped he appears to have<del>some</del>
<lb></lb>
a bruise on the Knee of the left Leg. his right high<lb></lb>
appears to be fractured-<del>Dept. went into the Warehouse<lb></lb>
& upon inquiry found no person</del>
That the deced has been<lb></lb>
employed sometime at the Warehouse was a very civil<lb></lb>
quiet Man that several other Men were employed<lb></lb>
at the Warehouse as the time by whom the deced was<lb></lb>
very well liked & was always upon very good terms</p>
<p n="676">Sworn this <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date152">22d. day of April<lb></lb>
1795</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="677"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n677-1">Thos. Moss</rs>
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</p>
<p n="678"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n678-1">Benjamin in Stroud</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ193">Labourer</rs>
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employed in the East<lb></lb>
India Company's private Trade Warehouse <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo604">Mark Lane</rs>
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& a lodge<lb></lb>
at No. 5 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo605">Crown street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo606">Finsbury Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo607">Moorfields</rs>
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced Robert<lb></lb>
Becks said August last-that Dept. & the deced with<lb></lb>
several other Men were yesterday employed at the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo608">warehouse</rs>
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-That about ½ part twelve Yesterday Dept<lb></lb>
being in the Loft of the fourth story of the warehouse the<lb></lb>
deced passed him & went up the Stairs to the Left of<lb></lb>
the fifth Storey-that no other person went up<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
& Dept. is sure no other person could be there Dept head</p>
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