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<p n="1331"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1331-1">Robert Riches</rs>
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of No 31 Nightingale Lane <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45034_geo787">Wapping</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45034_occ296">Watchman</rs>
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of the said Parish being Sworn upon his<lb></lb>
Oath saith That on Sunday Evening the thirtieth day<lb></lb>
of March last as Deponent was going his round calling<lb></lb>
the Hour of Eleven <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45034_n1331-3">James Cole</rs>
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another Watchman<lb></lb>
came to him and informed him be believed that there<lb></lb>
had been a Murder committed that Deponent<lb></lb>
went to the Door of the Deceased House and Seeing the same<lb></lb>
open Alarmed the Neighbourhood and with several<lb></lb>
other person went into the House where they found<lb></lb>
the deceased laying on the Floor with a White Clott<lb></lb>
over his Face and upon removeing such Cloth he<lb></lb>
perceived that his Throat had been Cut and Several<lb></lb>
Cuts in the head and Stabbed in the Breast and<lb></lb>
Dead and Appeared so to be for some time That<lb></lb>
Deponent with others went up Stairs and upon the<lb></lb>
Stairs he found a Box containing Weights and</p>
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