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Informations of Witnesses taken this Twenty Eight
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lying Dead in the said Parish Liberty and County
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Lewis James
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on her Oath saith,
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That between Eight and Nine o Clock yesterday Morning Deponent
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was in her Apartment on the Ground Floor, and heard somebody
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coming down Stairs, Says that she opened her Door, and saw
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came to the Ground, but Dept. cannot say whether it was owing to
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her weakness or her being in Liquor, but says that the Black
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Man did not throw her down upon her Head, Says that the
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Black Man immediately carried the Deced into the Court
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Deced did not speak afterwards to the Deponents knowledge
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after, Deponent says that she saw a Bruise in Deced's forehead,
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Mrs. James in New
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on the first Floor, on her Oath
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returned home between twelve and one o Clock, and found
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the Deced in her Room, with the Women that were at work
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for Dept. Says that she then desired the Deced to go away,
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Dept.
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