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London Depositions of Witnesses taken at
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London that is to say at the Parish
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aforesaid this
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22d. day of April 1795 on view of the
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now here
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lying Dead
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in the
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Kings
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Officer
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maketh Oath that about one OClock yesterday
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afternoon Dept. being in a yard belonging to
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East India Cos
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private Trade Warehouse adjoint the Corn Market in
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London found something falling behind
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him upon which he looked
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up at a Loop Hole
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in the fifth Story of the Warehouse Dept. then looked
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round & saw a Man Legs & then discovered it to be the
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deced that he was lying upon his Belly on the pavement
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Dept. examined him that he had no pulse & was dead-that
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a great quantity of blood came from his Month and
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Head-that his right Leg appeared to be broken-that
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since he has been stripped he appears to have
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some
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a bruise on the Knee of the left Leg. his right high
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appears to be fractured-
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Dept. went into the Warehouse
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& upon inquiry found no person
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That the deced has been
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employed sometime at the Warehouse was a very civil
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quiet Man that several other Men were employed
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at the Warehouse as the time by whom the deced was
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very well liked & was always upon very good terms
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Sworn this
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22d. day of April
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1795
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before me}
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Thos. Moss
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Benjamin in Stroud
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a
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Labourer
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employed in the East
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India Company's private Trade Warehouse
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Mark Lane
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& a lodge
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at No. 5
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maketh Oath that he hath known the deced Robert
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Becks said August last-that Dept. & the deced with
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several other Men were yesterday employed at the said
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warehouse
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-That about ½ part twelve Yesterday Dept
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being in the Loft of the fourth story of the warehouse the
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deced passed him & went up the Stairs to the Left of
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the fifth Storey-that no other person went up
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& Dept. is sure no other person could be there Dept head
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