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Deced's Cloaths and on the Floor, Says that he
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then felt the Deced who was quite Cold and
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appeared to have been dead some hours, and
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Dept. does believe that the Deced gave herself the
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wound in her Throat which he believes to
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have been the cause of her death Says that he
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found the Doors all fastened, and also the Windows,
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with the Bells in them, excepting a Window
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in the Back room on the Ground Floor where
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he found the Sash down but the Shutters not
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fastened, Says that he carefully examined the
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Yard there and saw no signs or appearance of
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any Person having gone out that way, Says that
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he this day saw a large Carving Knife bloody his Property
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taken from under the Deced on the Floor when
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she was moved before the Coroner and Jury, with
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which he believes the Deced gave herself the wound
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Says that he heard no Noise or Disturbance in his
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House on Tuesday Night after he went to Bed nor
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did he hear his Dog Bark which lay in the House
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that Night Says that from the Deced's Conversation
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Dept. has reason to believe that she was at times
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Disordered in her Senses. Says that no Person
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lay in Dept. House on Tuesday Night, but Mrs. Meller
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this Dept. and the Deced.
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Charles Cameron
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Joseph Ferdinando Gillis
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of Grosvenor Street
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Surgeon
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in his Oath saith, That he this day Examined
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the Body of
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Mary Tapperell
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the Deced,
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and found a
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Wound on the forepart of the Neck
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about one
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upwards
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of one Inch in length which had divided the Wind pipe
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and wounded the right Caroted Astory, which wound
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Dept. beleives to have been the came of her Death, Says
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that
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he opened the Body Examined the Womb. and found
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it in an unimpraguated State.
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Gillis
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Robert Davidson
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Green Street
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in the
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Parish of
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St. George Hanover Square
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Baker next Door to Mr Cameron on this Oath saith, That
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yesterday Morning about a Quarter before nine o' Clock
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Mr. Cameron came into Depts. Shop and asked if Dept.
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had heard a Noise in his (Mr. Cameron's) House the last Night,
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that somebody had Murdered his Maid or that she had
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Murdered herself, and desired Dept. to go with him down
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Stairs, Says that he went with Mr. Cameron and in
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Mr. Cameron's Hitchin saw the Deced lying on the
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Floor with a Wound in her Throat which then Bled
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and much Blood upon the Deced's Cloaths and on
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the Floor, Says that he did not touch the Deced but
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believes that she was dead. And Dept. says that he
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heard no Noise in Mr. Cameron's House on Tuesday's
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Night last.
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Robt Davidson
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Severally Sworn the Day year
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& Place abovementioned before me}
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Tho Prickard
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