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come out of Bed, that they all told Dept. that
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Mr. Graham the Deced event out about Nine
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o'Clock that Evening, and then said that if he did not
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return about Eleven o'Clock he shod. stay out
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all Night, Says that he went down stairs
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with the two other Watchmen lifted up the
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Deced in the Area, who was not able to
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speak, Says that he carried the Deced up Stair
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and put him into his own Bed in a two
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pair of Stairs Room,
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where
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That the Deced was Bled
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in the Kitchen, That Mr. Gillis the Surgeon
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afterwards come to Deced and Dept. was
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soon after informed that the Deced was dead,
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Says that he found a Cane between
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the Iron Rail
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and the Street Door which Dept. was informed
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belonged to Mr. Graham the Deced, Says that
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he heard no Noise or knowing at Deced's Door that Night
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before he found the Deced, But Dept. says
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that at three o'Clock on Sunday Morning
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(Jany. 30th Dept.) heard some Quarrelling in
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the Deced's House two pair of Stairs, and a
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voice (which he took to be a Woman's Voice)
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say I am your Wife and I'll Murder You
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to which a Man (as he thought) answered
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You shall fare no better for that.
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Thos. Wilson
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Joseph Ferdinands Gillis
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of
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Grosverer Street
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Surgeon
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on his Oath saith That yesterday Morning
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between three and four o'Clock Dept. was desired
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John Graham
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the Deced whom he
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found on a Bed in his House in
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little Maddox
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, dead, Says that
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he Examined the Deced
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on the Examination there appeared such
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deformity in the Upper Vertebra of the Neck
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as induced Dept. to think
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to be the cause
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of his Death and Dept. apprehends there might
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be a Dislocation.
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J Gillis
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Ann Woodward
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John Graham
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the Deced, on her Oath saith That on Sunday
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last in the Evening, after dark, the Deced
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was going out of his House in little Maddox
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Street ordered Dept. to keep in his Fire a
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little while, Says that she asked Deced when
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she shod. lay the Cloth to which he answered
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as he went out of the Door that he could
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not tell when he should return whether
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at Eleven Twelve One or Two o Clock, Says
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that she sat up until Twelve o'Clock waiting
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for her Master but he did not come home
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that she then went to Bed, and was
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awaked when the Watchman knocked at
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their Door, that she looked out at the Window
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when the Watchman informed her that a Man
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lay in the Area and that he believed it was
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the Gentleman who kept the House, that she
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acquainted her Mistress who Screamed out
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but Dept. cannot recollect what she then said,
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Says that she. & a Young Lad her Brother
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went down to the Door and her Mistress
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immediately followed, That the Watchmen
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went into the Area and lifted up the Deced
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who lay there, unable to speak, Says that
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the Deced was Bled in the Kitchin and afterwards
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carried up Stairs into the Bedchamber where
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he died in about half an
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hour Says that
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the Deced some time staid out all Night, but
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Dept. never knew the Deced attempt to come
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in thro' the Area, and is very sure that
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the Deced was not in his own House on
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Sunday Night last, since he went out that
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Evening. And this Dept. says that the Deced
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and Mrs. Ferguson, who lived with him
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sometimes Quarrlled, and that they had some
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difference last Sunday Morning when Deced
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was in Liquor about three o'Clock, That
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Mrs.
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