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<p n="1214">Depositions taken on View of the Body of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1214-1">John Wilkinson</rs>
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laying Dead at the Parish<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo768">Saint Botolph Aldgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo769">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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the 17th. day of July 1789 before<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1214-2">Edward Walter</rs>
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one of the Coroners for<lb></lb>
the said County</p>
<p n="1215">Richard Core of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo770">Red Cross Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo771">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the Parish and County aforesaid Labourer being<lb></lb>
Sworn saith That on Thursday the<del>fif</del>
sixteenth<lb></lb>
day of July instant<obscured></obscured>
about the hour of Seven in the Eveningas Deponent was Passing<lb></lb>
up <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo772">Nightingale Lane</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo773">East Smithfield</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
saw<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1215-1">William Powell</rs>
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who Deponent<lb></lb>
has been Informed is a Soldier and Occasionally<lb></lb>
Works as a Coal heaver standing against a Post<lb></lb>
at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo774">upper End of the Lane</rs>
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and appeared to be<lb></lb>
in Liquor that he was Swearing much and<lb></lb>
said Damn my Bloody Eyes I will stick the<lb></lb>
first Thief Taker I see or that shall come<lb></lb>
near me and drew a small Clasp Knife.<lb></lb>
from his Pockett with a Sharp Point which<lb></lb>
he opened That the deceased who was an<lb></lb>
Attendant at the Office of Mr Smith a Majistrate<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo775">County of Middlesex</rs>
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was standing<lb></lb>
about two or three Yards from the Powell and<lb></lb>
upon hearing his Expressions said You had</p>
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