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Informations taken this Twenty seventh
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Pleachmart to Mr. Walker in
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Great Poultney Street on his Oath saith, That he
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Parish of St. Jones Westmr. last Night when the
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the watchman's Dog ran forwards to a Parcel
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that lay on the Ground under a Cart there,
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upon which the watchman looked at it, and
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said it was only an old Flag Basket, but did not
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touch it as Dept. thinks, Says that this Morning
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between six and seven o' Clock he saw the Bask
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lying in the same place with a Male Child
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there in which was dead, and begin to look
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Green about the Belly, but Dept. observed no
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on
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his Oath saith. That he this day Examined the
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Body of a Male Child in the Infirmary belonging
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westmr. which appeared
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to have lived upwards of a fortnight, Says that
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he observed some lived appearances upon the
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Neck Head and Body, uncommonly so about
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the Neck, but Dept. cannot say whether the
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Child was Strangled, or died in the natural
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way, the Child appearing to have been dead
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about three days.
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