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<p n="1480"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1533">London</rs>
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London<lb></lb>
that is to say at the Parish of<lb></lb>
in the Ward of <rs type="placeName" id="LMCLIC65005_geo1534">Lime Street</rs>
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in London<lb></lb>
aforesaid this 10th: day of November 1792<lb></lb>
on view of the Body of <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1480-1">Thomas Dunbar</rs>
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<lb></lb>
now here lying Dead</p>
<p n="1481"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1481-1">John Houghton</rs>
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of the Ball Inn Leaden hall<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1481-2">Street London</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ589">Victualler</rs>
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maketh Oath that the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1481-3">Thomas Dunbar</rs>
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hath lodged in Depts. house since the<lb></lb>
26th. day of September last-that about ½ part eleven OClock<lb></lb>
on Wednesday Night last<del>Dept</del>
the deced went up Stairs<lb></lb>
for the purpose of going to Bed-that he spoke to Dept from the<lb></lb>
Gallery and inquired after one of Depts. Servants who was<lb></lb>
then waiting on some Company Dept. seeing the deced in the<lb></lb>
Gallery in his Shirt desired him to go to Bed the deced<lb></lb>
immediately quitted the Gallery and went into the Room<lb></lb>
he usually slept in a two pair of Stairs front Room facing the<lb></lb>
said Inn Yard that immediately after the deced had turned<lb></lb>
into his Room Dept. heard the Report of five Arms Dept<lb></lb>
immediately went up Stainer the purpose of going to the Room the deced slept in and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
<del>going in the Room</del>
from whence the Report of the Fire Arms<lb></lb>
seemed to come and<del>upon<obscured></obscured>
</del>
at the top of the two pair of Stairs the deced<lb></lb>
came running out of his Room and caught hold of<del>the</del>
deponent<lb></lb>
round his Nick and sayed Mr. John Mr. John I have shot<lb></lb>
myselfDept. carryed the deced into a lower Room and layed<lb></lb>
that he appeared to have a wound in his left side from whence blood came<lb></lb>
him on the Floor that when Dept had layed the deced on the Floor<lb></lb>
the deced sayed "Men don't you see I have shot myself"<lb></lb>
Dept went<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
for a Surgeonand on Dept. return he found a Mr.<lb></lb>
Benson an <rs type="occupation" id="LMCLIC65005_occ590">Apothecary</rs>
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with the deced-Dept. set up with<lb></lb>
the deced that Night that the deced continued ill from<lb></lb>
the Wound he had reced until Yesterday Morning when he<lb></lb>
departed this Life-that the deced appeared to be sensible<lb></lb>
a little some part of the time and used to<obscured></obscured>
claim "the Lord<lb></lb>
of Mercy on me"-that during the time the deced has lodged<lb></lb>
with Dept. he used often to talk in<obscured></obscured>
harently appeared very<lb></lb>
dull and melancholy and also avoided any Company that<lb></lb>
might be in Dept. house-that Dept. has considered the deced"<lb></lb>
as deranged in Feir Senses during the whole time he has<lb></lb>
lodged<del>with</del>
in Depts. house that after Dept. had laid the deced<lb></lb>
on the Floor a before mentioned he went to the Room where the<lb></lb>
deced usually slept and found a Pistol lying on the Floor.</p>
<p n="1482">Sworn this 10th November 1792<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="1483"> <rs type="persName" id="LMCLIC65005_n1483-1">John Haughton</rs>
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