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be found the Door of the room adjourning to the room
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where he had kept, lock'd and upon looking thro
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the Key hole he saw Blood upon the Floor
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and this Deponent hearing her Son knocking at
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happens and desired Mr. Carns and Mr. Harly
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(who were below) to go up, which they did and
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lifted the Door off the Hinges and found that
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the deceased had put an End to his Existence
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St. Mary lebone
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being sworn deporeth that yesterday morning believes
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9 and 10 o'Clock he was at Mrs. Charlton the
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confirm
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above and further depoteth that whom he and
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Mr. Hardy entered the room they saw
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much blood on the Floor and the deceased lying
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across the Corner of the Bed with his Face down
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wards whereupon they turned him upon his Back
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and percieved that he had cut his Throat very
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was quite dead and Razor by on the Floor
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which was bloody and Mr. Hardy picked it
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up and laid it on a Table upon which was
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and their Deponent is of opinion that the
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deceased cut his own throat with that Razer
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John Cairns
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The Verdict that
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was deranged
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in his mind and in a low Melancholly fit
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cut his own Throat with a
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on Sunday Monday morning the 8th. March 1795
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W: Thompson
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