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<p n="2077">finding him in the Bed Chamber where this Depont<lb></lb>
had left him she went into the Drawing room<lb></lb>
where she saw him lying on the sopha quite<lb></lb>
motioness and a Pistol in his right Hand and<lb></lb>
Blood passing from his mouth whereupon this<lb></lb>
Deponent immediately sent for Mr. Lindsey who<lb></lb>
lived nearly opposite and was the most intimate<lb></lb>
acquaintance of the deceased who came over and<lb></lb>
found the deceased in the Possition and Situation above<lb></lb>
mentioned this Deponent further sayeth that<lb></lb>
from the time she first came to attend the deceased<lb></lb>
and from his conversation at different times she<lb></lb>
is of opinion that he was deranged in his mind <lb></lb>
and a lunatic</p>
<p n="2078"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2078-1">Ann Spillard</rs>
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<p n="2079"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2079-1">William Lindsey</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2384">Dean Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2385">Soho</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1141">Gentleman</rs>
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being<lb></lb>
sworn deposeth that he has known the deceased for<lb></lb>
nearly a Dozen years last part, that he was always of<lb></lb>
a very restless dispossition and seemed always unhappy<lb></lb>
that he came to Town from his residence at Rentham in<lb></lb>
Suffolk one day last week that last Wednesday knight<lb></lb>
he called upon this Deponent and seemed very unhappy<lb></lb>
and told this Deponent that he missed his little<lb></lb>
Pembroke Table which used to stand in the Drawing Room<lb></lb>
whereupon</p>
<p n="2080">whereupon he went into the Kitchen and found the<lb></lb>
Table there with a Key in the Drawver which was <lb></lb>
in part open'd that <del>the</del>
he came to Town to<lb></lb>
undergo an operation, <del>having</del>
which was he<lb></lb>
<obscured></obscured>
thought to be a venereal Complaint<lb></lb>
which operation having been performed disturbed <lb></lb>
and distracted his mind very much being in great Bodily pain from the operation and was confined<lb></lb>
at home all the week in consequence thereof<lb></lb>
that on Wednesday morning last at that about<lb></lb>
Eleven O'Clock he called upon this Deponent and<lb></lb>
seemed then almost frantic and produced and a letter<lb></lb>
signed R. M. to the following purpose namely that his House keeper<lb></lb>
was a very bad woman and connected with House<lb></lb>
-business and Highwaymen and that the Person who<lb></lb>
wrote the Letter R.M. expected to hear that he was<lb></lb>
murdered in his Bed and that he was in danger <lb></lb>
of his man life and property that Yesterday about 2 this<lb></lb>
Deponent was desired to come over to the deceased<lb></lb>
when he found him dead on the Sopha with <del>the</del>
<lb></lb>
a Pistol in his right hand and much blood in &<lb></lb>
about his mouth.</p>
<p n="2081">Mr Lindsey</p>
<p n="2082"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n2082-1">John Foot</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo2386">Dean Street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ1142">Surgeon</rs>
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being sworn<lb></lb>
deposeth that a little before two O'clock Yesterday<lb></lb>
just as he had knocked at his own door which is opposite to the<lb></lb>
House of the deceased Mr. Lindsey called very eagerly</p>
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