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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say at the parish of Saint Magnus
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lying dead
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Holborn in the County
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of
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maketh Oath that between five and
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six OClock in the afternoon of Yesterday the 28th. instant Dept. being
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employed at the wheels of
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Water works discovered
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the Deced in the Water near one of the Wheels of the Waterworks
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Dept.
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got
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conveyed the deced
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out of the Water and placed him
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where he left him - that the deced appeared
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to have been some time in the Water and his head appeared
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very much bruised
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Sworn the 29th. day
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of April 1791 before me}
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Trinity Court
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little Trinity lane
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Queentith London a Watchman to Mr.
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James Randall
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Queentith maketh Oath that Dept. and the deced (who was
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emplored to Watch Banges for said Mr. Randall) were in
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company together about one OClock in the Morning of Yesterday
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senwright watching the Craft at Queen with Wharf - that
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Dept. left the deced walking along he Gunnel of a Barge
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lying without the said Wharf
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in Order to go on shore to call
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the Bangemen up - that in about a minute or two after Dept.
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left the deced he heard something fall into the Water Dept.
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immediately returned thinking its wright be the deced
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that on his return he russed the deced - that Dept. and
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one of the Watchman looked into the Water but could see
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nothing of the deced - that Dept. now he deced last Night
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lying dead in Saint Magnus Chuch Yard - that the deced
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was a little intoxicated with liquor when Dept. left him
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that there was on person near the deced when Dept. left him
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as before stated.
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Sworn the 29th day of
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April 1791 before me}
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his
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William
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Kinn
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Mark
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