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This informacon of
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Taken the 15th. Day of Septr. 1753
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in the County of Middx on
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Veiw of the body of
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This Informt. saith That on the 9th. Instant at night
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deced was drinking by himself in the House of Informts.
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Husband & afterwards was in Company in the same Room
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with two persons who went by the name of Ducker
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says they were all very sociable
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gave a Guinea to charg wod. pay but
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two shillings for the punch which deced resented & said
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he ought to pay half a Crown as a quartern of more
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rum had been put into it & beleives
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Mursey
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Mursey
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struck the deced on the face as there were high word,
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between them & Informt. saw deceds face bloody
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whereupon the deced stript to fight Mursey directly
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but Informt. Endeavour'd to hinder the deced who told
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her he wod. only strike him one blow for his
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Impudence, which informt. beleives he did &
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imediatly deced cryed he was stab'd, & when deceds
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Husband went to Coll or Mursey she saw sd. Mursey
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have a Short Steel Instrumt. in his hand which he
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attempted
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(as Informt. beleives) to hill her sd. Husband
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with-says she verily beleives that sd. Burton was
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Lillid by the sd. Mursey
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