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past Ten o Clock Dept. carried some hot
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water into Deced's Parlour, when Deced
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thanked her, said he would make her
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amends and that he should not want
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any thing more that Night, and Dept.
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did not
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see him afterwards alive
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Says that this Morning about half
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after Seven o' Clock Dept. unlocked the
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Deced's Room Door (the Key being on the
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outside of the Door in the Lack ) in order
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to make the Deced's Fire, which he had
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desired Dept. to do early, as he was to
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go to
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Bow Street
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this Morning for a
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Hearing, Says that on going into Deced's
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Room She saw him up right (Standing as
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she thought) between the Fire Place and
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the Window, and said Good Morning to you
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but having no Answer, She was frightened
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and suspected that the Deced was Hanged
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Says that she immediately called Mr. Gregory
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and others who came with Dept. to the Deced
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when they found that the Deced was
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hanged by a Cord fastened to Brass
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and Gimbet & on the Wainscots and about
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his Neck. Says that Mr. Fenwick the
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Governor likewise came there, and
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Dept. says that the Deced
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was Cole
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appeared
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to be dead. And Dept. believes that he
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killed himself Says that the Deced last
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Night when she left Deced in the Room
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alone appeared to be much troubled in
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his Mind and uneasy, That she has seen
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the Deced so several times before, and
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that he used to Walk about the Room and
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Cry often, And this Dept. says that when
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the Deced was Hanging she with a Garter
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and fastened to the waist Hand of his
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Breeches, and Says that the Deced's
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Bed was not trimbled,
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Alice Barnes
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her Mark
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Alexander Fenwick
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Governor
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of
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Tothill Fields Bridewell
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on his Oath
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saith That
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Charles Price
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the
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was
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brought to
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some time on Saturday Night the fourteenth
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Instant, upon a Suspicion of a Forgery
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upon the Bank, Says that the Deced
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slept in the Parlour adjoyning to Dept.
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Kitchin, Says that on Monday Night last
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Dept. received an Order from St.
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Sampson
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Wright
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to bring Deced to
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on
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Wednesday Morning (being this Morning)
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of which he was informed that Night, and
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last Night about Eleven o' Clock when Dept
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came home, the Deced came into Dept. Room
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and desired him to go this Morning to
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Bow Street
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with Deced, and Dept. promised
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to go when Deced desired him to intercede
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with
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the
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Magistrates to suffer him to come
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back there to see his Wife and Children
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in case he should be fully Committed
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Says that the Deced left Dept. a little
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before Twelve o' Clock last Night and week
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into his own Room, Says that about a
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Quarter after Twelve o' Clock Dept. was going
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to Bed and through a Window saw the
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Deced with his Coat off Walking about
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his own Room, Says that he saw nothing
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more of the Deced until he was called
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this Morning a little before Eight o' Clock
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by his Mouth (Servant who informed him
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that the Gentleman had Hanged himself
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upon which Dept. went to Deced who was
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Hanging in his Room by Cord which
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was fastened to two Brass Skrews and
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two Ginlets in the Wainscot and about
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Deceds Neck, Says that by the order
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of
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