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Informations of Witnesses<lb></lb>
taken at the Parish of Saint Sepulchre<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1447">Ward of Farringdon</rs>
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without in<lb></lb>
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aforesaid on the 10th day of April<lb></lb>
1792 on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1414-1">John William</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Pickett now here lying dead.</p>
<p n="1415"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1415-1">Alexander Sheriff</rs>
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of No. 3 <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1449">Bull head</rs>
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Court Newgate<lb></lb>
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maketh oath that about one<lb></lb>
O Clock in the afternoon of Sunday last Dept. being then<lb></lb>
sitting in his lower Room head something fall from<lb></lb>
the Top of his House and immediately afterwards<lb></lb>
he saw the Mother of the deced running down stairs<lb></lb>
and heard her cry out my child in Murdered<lb></lb>
and immediately run down the Kitchen Stairs Dept.<lb></lb>
immediately followed her - the Mother went into<lb></lb>
the Area fronting the House Dept. followed he and<lb></lb>
the Mother took the deced up out of the Area and<lb></lb>
Dept. took the deced from her the Mother was greatts <lb></lb>
alarmed and is now very big with Child - That<lb></lb>
the blood ran very fast from the back of the deceds head<lb></lb>
that a <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1415-3">Young Woman</rs>
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servant to Mr. Bennett living in<lb></lb>
the same Court coming into the house just at the time<lb></lb>
Dept. gave the deced. to her. that a Surgeon was sent<lb></lb>
for - that soon after the deced wartaken to Saint<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1450">Bartholomew Hospital</rs>
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and Dept. understands the<lb></lb>
deced died in about an hour & half afterwards</p>
<p n="1416">Sworn the 10th day of<lb></lb>
April 1792 before me}</p>
<p n="1417">Alexr. Sherriff</p>
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