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lying dead
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maketh oath that last
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Thursday morning William Special, who is a Dustman and in whom
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employ this Dept is came home with his Dust Cart accompanied
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young man
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in his service Says the
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Dust Cart was traded, and they shot it upon the Dust him in Specials
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Yard, and Special look up the deced Infant in his hand and
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sayed he would dig a hole and Jury it, that he could do nothing
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else with it says Special look it out of the Rubbish and that it
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was caused with a Cloth that the matter was mentioned about
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and special & freestone his
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to prison Says that freestone at the same time told this Dept
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in the presence of Special that the Child came out
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of the Cellar of a Haberdashers & Stocking Shop
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opposite Saint Thomas's Hospital amongst some
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Shavings and Saw dust and the Dust came from under the some
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Stairs in the same House was he Street
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Sworn the 26th. Augt 1797
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before me
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T. Shelton Corr.}
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The Mark of
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Farmer
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maketh oath that last Thursday evening he
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examined the body of the deced female persent Says as mark
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of violence appeared upon it, except that on one of its feet,
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the toes of which were cut of with a Shore or some such
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thing as Dept believes Says she Child appeared so be about a
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seven or eight month Child the have String appeared to have
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