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<p n="1024"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">London</note>
Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish of Saint<lb></lb>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo966">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in London the <rs type="date" id="LMCLIC65008_date231">7th. day of<lb></lb>
August 1795</rs>
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on view of the body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1024-1">William Kinsman</rs>
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there lying dead</p>
<p n="1025"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1025-1">Alexander Clark</rs>
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No 4 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo967">Bedford Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo968">Bedford row</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65008_occ293">Upholder</rs>
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, but now a prisoner for debt in his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65008_geo969">Gaol of Newgate</rs>
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maketh oath that on the 14th. July last<lb></lb>
about ½ pasrt 4 in the morning Dept was awakened by a<lb></lb>
noise in the necessary of the room wherein he and the deced and<lb></lb>
many other prisrs. Slept which occasioned dept to get up and<lb></lb>
go to the privy where he found the deced Learning with his<lb></lb>
head over the seal coughing and apparently with a difficulty<lb></lb>
of bringing something upThat dept with his open hand<lb></lb>
dapped him upon the back upon which he started up and<lb></lb>
turned round & followed dept hastily out of the hours, & at<lb></lb>
that time Dept observed blood to issue from his throat and his<lb></lb>
MouthDept alarmed othe prisrs. in the same room, & one<lb></lb>
of them named Jane took from the deced an<obscured></obscured>
bar which<lb></lb>
he believes he seozer hold of to further injure himself<lb></lb>
That the deced was taken care of, when he frequently wished there<lb></lb>
about him to knock him on the head or to hang him That a<lb></lb>
surgeon immediately saw the deced, & so did anor. Surgeon soon<lb></lb>
afterwards who gave the deced as dept believes proper assistance<lb></lb>
That the deced was then taken to the sick Ward where he died<lb></lb>
as dept is informed & believes yesterday mong.a Knife was<lb></lb>
<del>afterwards</del>
found in the Privy Hoody.Says the deced came into<lb></lb>
the Gaol on the 15 July & from that time Dept & others observed<lb></lb>
him take in a very despong damaged state of mind.</p>
<p n="1026"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65008_n1026-1">Alex Clark</rs>
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<p n="1027"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Sworn the 7. Augt.<lb></lb>
1795 before me<lb></lb>
T: Shelton Corr.</note>
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