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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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had ran over a Man he turned about and I
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then saw the deceased lying on the Ground in the
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Street (not upon the Footway) and Crutch
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lying by him, and it appeared some that he
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must have fallen from off the Foot-Way and
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that one of the last Wheels went over his
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Head and crushed it as by the light of a
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Candle I percived part of his Brains lay
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on the Ground &
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by his head, and I have
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reason to believe that as the Boy who drove
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the Cart was in his right Station that he
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was not bl
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meable, hust that the deceased
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accidentally came by his death and I
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afterwards was informed that Mr. Bay thorne
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the Parish Beadle conveyed the Body to
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John Fleetham
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The Verdict
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Accidental Death and the fast Wheel which
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went one his head and caused his Death is a
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Deodand and Forfiture Value one Shilling
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