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London Deposition of a Witness taken at London
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aforesaid this 28th. day
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of October 1797 on view of the body of
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now here lying Dead
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Moses Rogers
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a Lodger at Mr
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Woottens No
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maketh Oath that a little after eight on Thursday Night last
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upon Depts. going up to his Appartment a two pair of Stairs
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Room in said
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House he found the Door locked inside
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Dept. called the deced his wife by Name & tryed to force the
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Door-two of the Women Lodgers in the House came up -
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Dept. & the Women tryed to force the Door open one of the
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Women forced one of the Pannels of the Door out upon which
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Dept. got then the Door into the Room & one of the Women
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giving him a Light he saw the deced hanging by a small
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piece of Cord fastened to a Nail near the Cieling of the Room
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by the fire side - Dept. fell her she was quite Cold and Dead Dept.
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got a Knife & cut the Cord by which she was suspended
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and Dept. & the Women placed her on the Bed - says the
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deced was about fifty eight years of Age - says he left
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the deced in his Room about four oClock same afternoon
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that she was then walking up and down the Room quite in
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a melancholy state. Says the deced has been in a melancholy
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and disordered state these two years and a half - very
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much frightened and alarmed at any Noise or anything
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moving
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Sworn this 28th. day of October
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1797 before me}
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his
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Moses
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Rogers
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Mark
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NB. Two Women Lodgers in the House confirmed Rogers as to the Door being looked
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inside his getting thro the Door & finding the deced in the situation of hanging as described
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by him & that she had been in a melancholy & disordered state the time he mentioned
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in his deposition.
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