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This Deponent and a Man Servant of the said
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went into the Road and at a Small distance from the
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House saw the deceased laying in the House Road
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endeavoring to raise himself up and in doing to fell
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down again just before this Deponent and his Companion
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came up and when they did they lifted him up and
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Stable where they
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laid him down upon some clean Straw and left him
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but during the whole time he said not speak a Word
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although he looked at this Deponent as if he wished to
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Mr Farlane
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on his Oath Saith
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That on Tuesday the twenty eighth day of February now last
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The Constable of
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came to this Deponent
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to request him to come and look at the deceased which
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he did Shortly Afterwards at the Workhouse where the
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deceased lay and upon examining his Body found
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his upper lip bruised and a wound on the
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but whether it was caused by ablow or a fall cannot
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say and also found the face
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scratched and
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a good deal grazed as if by Gravel and also observed
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both his hips so chafed or galled by the Waist band of
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a pair of Francers which he were having no Shirt on that
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they were quite
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inside of the Right Thigh as if by a Shick but is of
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Opinion that nome of the before mentioned injuries were
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the Cause of his Death but is also of opinion that the
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deceased had recaused some ill usage which to gether
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with great Fategive the in elemanry of the weather
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