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Informations of Witnesses taken
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being Sworn deposeth that between 7 and 8 o' Clock this
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morning he was sent for to a man whom he was
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Landaff's House in
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whose Wife had the Care of this House during the
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there he found the deceased lying flat upon the Floor
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in the Laundry which was in the upper part of the
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for drying Linnen but this Deponent did not observe
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any Cord or part of a Cord fixed to the said drying Horse
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and was for some time at a great loss how to account
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