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Face downwards and she called to him and as
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he did not answer she went into the Room
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to him and endeavour'd to lift him up
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to her Assistance and they turned him upon
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Speechless but he groaned whereupon
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the Husband of the deceased went out for
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a Doctor and sometime after a Person
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to open a Vein and then said it was of no
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Use to toy further means for his Recovery
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as he was quite dead, this Deponent has
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heard his Wife say that the deceased was
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subject to Fits and as the deceased had
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he hurt it by falling off his Chair
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against a Post of Water in near him in wch.
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he used to dip his Leathers in being a
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The Verdict Sudden Death by the Visitation of God
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