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this instant Decr. between ten & Eleven o'Clock in the
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forenoon when he appeared to Dept. to be in Liquor
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the wound much Bruised, Says that he Enquired
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how Deced reced the Wound and was told by some People
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that came with Deced to the Hospital that
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a fall down an Area, That the Deced was not
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sensible when he was brought to said Hospital, but was
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Sensible The next Morning, and then complained of
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a pain in his Arm, but had no apparent Hurt or Brui
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any where but on the Head, Says that Deced continued
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to be Sensible for three or four Days, and then grew
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delirious, and died in said Hospital on or about the
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Seventeenth day of the same Month, Says that he
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opened the Deced's Head on Monday the 19th. and found
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a large Quantity of matter between the Sealp and the
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Pericranium, under the Wound, and around it, and
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a pretty large Quantity of extravasated Blood upon the Brain
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in the back part of the Head, and says that the
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