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Drawer and cutting with a small Chissell towards his
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Body, That the Deced turned around to Depots
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clapped his Hand upon his Breast, saying,
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God bless me, I have killed myself, and walk
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to Dept. upon which Dept. opened the Deced
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Waistcoat, and then saw a Wound in Deced's
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Breast on the leftside, which bled, Says
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that he feast his Handkerchief to the wound
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in order to stop the Blood, and Deced said
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I am Sick, I am Sick, Sunk down and
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fainted away, upon which Dept. went to
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acquaint Mr. Squrres there with who sent for
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a Surgeon, who came verysoon, and on
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his feeling the Deced's Pulse, said he feared
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that he was dead, as he had no Pulse, Says
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that the Deced was moved to the Sign of the
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Taylor's Arms in Clements Lane and died
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immediately, and Dept. believes that the Deced
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accidentally gave himself the wound in the Breast
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with the Chisset, which coved his Death, Says that
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