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nearly three Inches long dividing the
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Windpipe and the Carvted Arteries
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Henry Wheeler
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Foreman to Mr.
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Thos. Clarke
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Swallow Street
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Nightman
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being sworn deposeth that about Eleven
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o' Clock on Friday Night last (the twentieth
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Instant) as this Deponent and four other
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of Mr. Clarke's Nightman were emptying
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the Night Soil of out of the Princes
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belong
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ing to two Houses No. 25 and 26
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Tichbourn Street which communicate
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and one of the Houses No 25 at that time empty
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he
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drew
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something up
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out of the Privy in
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his Bucket and
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but did not
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then known what it was and the Tub
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was emptied in the Night last which
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was soon afterwards conveyed to Mr.
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Carter's Field near
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it was
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shot down sometime after it had been
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it appeared to the Lodger
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Edwd
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Mr.
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Hedges his Fellow Servant told him
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an
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Infant Child which he the said Hedges
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to Mr. Clarke's Stubbs about 6 o' Clock in the next Morning
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and Mrs. Hedges
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his Wife washed it clear and put it
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Watch house from whence
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Infirmary. This Deponent observed that
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the Child Throat had been cut but he
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neither knows or has heard by whom
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Henry Wheeler
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The Verdict Wilfull Murder by a Person
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unknown
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John Down
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Foreman
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