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<p n="1868"> <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2097">City & Liberty Westmr</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2098">County of Middlesex</rs>
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Information of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this 19 augt: 1797 at the Dweling<lb></lb>
House of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1868-1">Joseph Southam</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2099">sign of the Blackamoors head</rs>
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in <obscured></obscured>
street <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2100">parish of St. James Westmr.</rs>
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on view of<lb></lb>
the Body of the Rt. Honble<lb></lb>
then & there lying dead to wit<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1868-2">John Rush</rs>
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of M<obscured></obscured>
marle Street <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1002">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being sworn, saith, he came <obscured></obscured>
to the House of the Moses<lb></lb>
Storey & morell in York Street yesterday morning <lb></lb>
at <obscured></obscured>
past 10 o'Clock being sent for in Consequence<lb></lb>
of some Accident he was told by his sd <obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Servt. that he believed his Master had destroyed<lb></lb>
him. This dept. found D. <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1868-3">Robt. Willis</rs>
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in the<lb></lb>
House he came up Stairs with this Dept. & they<lb></lb>
both went up Stairs & in the Bed Rooms of the<lb></lb>
deced he saw the deced lying on the ground<lb></lb>
dead, upon the examining the mouth he found<lb></lb>
a considerable Aperture in the roof. there was a<lb></lb>
pistol lying in the right side which had been<lb></lb>
discharged & he found another loaded pistol<lb></lb>
in his pocket. Willis told this Dept he came<lb></lb>
here this morning by appointment of the decd<lb></lb>
when he came he found the Door locked &<lb></lb>
directed the door to be broke open when he found the<lb></lb>
deced then lying dead immerced in blood the Dept.<lb></lb>
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no doubt from all appearances but the<lb></lb>
Ld Mount Morres shot himself</p>
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