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<p n="1152"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1079">Southwark</rs>
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Informations of Witnesses taken at the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1080">parish of Saint Saviour within</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1081">the Bord of Southwark</rs>
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in the County<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1082">Surrey</rs>
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26th Augt 1797 on view of<lb></lb>
the body of a female Child there<lb></lb>
lying dead</p>
<p n="1153"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1153-1">Elizabeth Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1153-2">John Farmer</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1083">Suffolk Street</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
the parish of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1084">Saint George Southwark</rs>
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maketh oath that last<lb></lb>
Thursday morning William Special, who is a Dustman and in whom<lb></lb>
employ this Dept is came home with his Dust Cart accompanied<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1153-3">Francis Freestone</rs>
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a <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1153-4">young man</rs>
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in his service Says the<lb></lb>
Dust Cart was traded, and they shot it upon the Dust him in Specials<lb></lb>
Yard, and Special look up the deced Infant in his hand and<lb></lb>
sayed he would dig a hole and Jury it, that he could do nothing<lb></lb>
else with it says Special look it out of the Rubbish and that it<lb></lb>
was caused with a Cloth that the matter was mentioned about<lb></lb>
and special & freestone his <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ535">Servant</rs>
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were<del>was</del>
apprehended and some<lb></lb>
to prison Says that freestone at the same time told this Dept<lb></lb>
in the presence of Special that the Child came out<lb></lb>
of the Cellar of a Haberdashers & Stocking Shop<lb></lb>
opposite Saint Thomas's Hospital amongst some<lb></lb>
Shavings and Saw dust and the Dust came from under the some<lb></lb>
Stairs in the same House was he Street</p>
<p n="1154">Sworn the 26th. Augt 1797<lb></lb>
before me<lb></lb>
T. Shelton Corr.}</p>
<p n="1155">The Mark of<lb></lb>
Eliz:<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Farmer</p>
<p n="1156"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65010_n1156-1">John Burden</rs>
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Kent of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1085">the Borough</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65010_geo1086">high Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65010_occ536">Surgeon</rs>
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maketh oath that last Thursday evening he<lb></lb>
examined the body of the deced female persent Says as mark<lb></lb>
of violence appeared upon it, except that on one of its feet,<lb></lb>
the toes of which were cut of with a Shore or some such<lb></lb>
thing as Dept believes Says she Child appeared so be about a<lb></lb>
seven or eight month Child the have String appeared to have</p>
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