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4. 10th. day May 1764. at
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then & there lying dead.
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the Courtable for the Night at the Hamlet
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of Ratcliff on the Hight of the 7th. of Maybeing Exired Swears her
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wert upon Duty to the Watchhouse at 10 at night. That between
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12 & to in the Morning of the 8th. May the Watchman being
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your their Rounds the Hatch was shutt & Prently
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: his Wife in Coupr. with other Woman brot. Sno Turtles a Prisonr.
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where he pulled up his Shirt & shew'd different Wounds about
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his Body a one of the half did the Body below the
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Navel
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& anor. a the left ThighThe deced Shirt was very full of
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Mood & the deced said he had a Wound or the right side the
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Bellybut the Witness did not see itSays he saw the Guts
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out of the Wound on the left sideSays Further the Prisonr.
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was immediately put into the innor Apartmt. called the Cag
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& charg'd by the deced wth. being the Cause of his deathfor
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Says the deced you
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Rogers you Vill
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you have been
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the death of me I am a dead man; but did not Say with
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what Instrumt. the Wounds were givenThat the deced was led
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to Dr. Basdn'n where he was recommended to the Infirmary
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That the deced was brot. back to the
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Watch house &
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soon after put into the Town-house Chair & Carried to the
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That the next Morning he was sent for to
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bring the prisonr. along wth. him to the Infirmary to see whether
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the deced know him or nothe brot. the prisonr.to the deced,
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Who fix'd upon the prisonr. Turthe to be the Man who Stib'd him
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& said he was a dead ManSays there were prsant. in the
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2 Watchman & several other PersonThat after
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this he took the prisonr. to Justics Pellwho Ordl. the Witness
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