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Informations of Witnesses
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Pickett now here lying dead.
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maketh oath that about one
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O Clock in the afternoon of Sunday last Dept. being then
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sitting in his lower Room head something fall from
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the Top of his House and immediately afterwards
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he saw the Mother of the deced running down stairs
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and heard her cry out my child in Murdered
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and immediately run down the Kitchen Stairs Dept.
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immediately followed her - the Mother went into
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the Area fronting the House Dept. followed he and
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the Mother took the deced up out of the Area and
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Dept. took the deced from her the Mother was greatts
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alarmed and is now very big with Child - That
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the blood ran very fast from the back of the deceds head
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Sworn the 10th day of
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April 1792 before me}
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Alexr. Sherriff
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