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Informations of Witnesses taken this
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the Broadway. Before
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about half an hour after 3 in the Afternoon
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on his Oath says That Yesterday as he and a Comrade of his were leaning
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he saw the Deced in the Water and near the Shore that runs to the
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Sluice that the deced Sunk into a Hole and the Deponent from his
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knowledge of the Shore there apprehended the deced would naturally
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be carried by the Current to the Wall of the Sluice, that he thereupon
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immediately went there and watched his coming, and shipped and
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used his last endeavour to save him, that he preceived his Legs and
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pulled but on account of a large Stone lying on the Wall he could
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