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Informations of Witness taken
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upon Oath this 26th. day of June 1790,
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His Master Coroner
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in the Cold stream Regiment of
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Fool Guards on his Oath Saith that on Wednesday the 23d.
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day of June Instant about Three o' Clock in the Afternoon
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he and the Deceased James Tretim who was a Soldier in
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the same Regiment went into the Serpentine River in
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Hyde Park to Bathe the Deponent went in first, and
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a Soldier in the same Regiment was sitting on the Bant
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Waterthe Deceased turned round to attempt to get toward
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