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Informations taken this twenty third
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an Infant lying dead in the
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on her Oath saith, That on Saturday
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the Twentieth
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Thirtieth
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Instant about Twelve o'Clock
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at Noon Dept. was in Kinghtsbridge and saw
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James Cheeseman
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the Infant lying down in
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the Road there upon his face Says that a
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Waggon was just passed along towards
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Hyde Park Corner, that the Waggon was
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the Deced, Says that the Deced was taken
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, Says that she carried
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the Child there, that it was alive there be
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could not speak and died immediately,
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piece of the flesh tore on the left side but
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Dept. cannot say how it happened
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on his
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Oath Saith That on Saturday last the Twentieth
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Instant,
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wheel waggon drawn
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James
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an Infant in the Road at Kinghtsbridge
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in the
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where
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he died immediately as Dept. informed Says
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that
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