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Informations taken this fifth
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day of February 1780 at the Parish
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of St. Margaret within the Liberty
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of Westmr. in the County of Midsex upon
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a Triangular Wound which left the Bore bare
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which he apprehands might be reced by a
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fall, finding no other Marks of violence
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Harris
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on his Oath saith That on Monday
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Night last (January 31.) Dept. spent the
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Evening with his fellow Workmen at
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That they were going home between two
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and three o'Clock on Tuesday Morning
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at the End of Westmr. Bridge when he
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heard a Man in the Water call out
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Hollo, twice, Says that he turned back
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with a Candle and Laulhorn to go with
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him, towards the Deced, Says that he went
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on the upper side of
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Westmr. Bridge, and on the Stairs found
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, he heard
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the Deced say, her I am twice, the Deced
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