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Informations taken on Oath this <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15072_date33">thirty first day of<lb></lb>
August 1761</rs>
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at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo114">parish of Saint Botolph<lb></lb>
Aldersgate</rs>
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in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo115">Ward of Aldersgate without</rs>
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London, on an Inquistion taken on View of the Body<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n140-4">Sarah</rs>
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the late <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ72">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n140-1">Thomas Daniels</rs>
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then and there<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ73">lying dead</rs>
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. his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ75">Coroner</rs>
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<p n="141"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n141-1">Mary Allen</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo118">aldersgate street</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15072_occ77">Watch finisher</rs>
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being sworn and<lb></lb>
examined upon her Oath saith that on Friday<lb></lb>
Evening last about a Quarter of an Hour after ten of<lb></lb>
the Clock being at Supper at her Dwelling house<lb></lb>
(being about three Doors from Daniels House) this<lb></lb>
Dept heard a Woman scream very much or<lb></lb>
which Dept advanced to the Window: says the<lb></lb>
person then ceased to scream but soon afterwards<lb></lb>
screamed again: that she heard the voice of a<lb></lb>
man but could not distinguish what he say<lb></lb>
that she heard the Woman says my dear life, my<lb></lb>
dear Soul any dear Creature never no more:<lb></lb>
that then she heard a noise unto the knocking<lb></lb>
on an Hammer as if nailing up a Door: the<lb></lb>
woman then screamed again saying, any life<lb></lb>
never no more my dear Soul never no more</p>
<p n="142">Says she then went down stairs & went<lb></lb>
into the Street thinking she heard the Noised<lb></lb>
from thence & believing it to come from <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n142-1">Thos.<lb></lb>
Daniels</rs>
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House: when Dept. to the Bottom<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15072_geo119">Hare Court</rs>
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into the Street every thing was the<lb></lb>
but she soon afterwards heard the Cry of a won.<lb></lb>
and likewise that of a man who Dept. believes<lb></lb>
to be <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15072_n142-2">Thomas Daniels</rs>
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who sayed, I am you you<lb></lb>
Bitch, will you ever come after and any more<lb></lb>
that the woman then screamed again, saying, no<lb></lb>
never no more immediately after which Dept. sav<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
her tumbling<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
out from off a folding Casement <gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
from Daniel's Dwelling House two Storys high<lb></lb>
the woman being quite naked & crying out <obscured></obscured>
save<lb></lb>
any save and; says the fall at her full length upon her</p>
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