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Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
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that is to say at the parish of Saint Giles without
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aforesaid this 10th. day of January 1799 on
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view of the body of
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maketh Oath that she has been Servant to the
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about twelve Months that the deced rented Apartments at Mr. Knott
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that the deced was a Clark at the
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Bank & a married ManThat between fire & six on Monday we the deced
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came home that he had his Ten with his wife went into his Best Chamber to wash
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himselfThat a little after Dept. heard
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something go off Dept
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which Dept & appeared to a Squile let off by some Children the Street Dept and
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& her Mistress were in the Kitchen at the time
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while after
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Dept. Mistress sayed she wandered where the decad was a Dept went
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on the Leads one pr of Stairs where the privy is to took for the deced and
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saw the deced sitting on the seat of the privy his Head leaning against
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the Wainscott
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of the privy and seeing him Head bhody and blood on the Floor Dept.
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was very much alarmed Dept. saw something like a Pistol on the Floor
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Dept. she camed out That Mr. Knotts Shopman came up and got the
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deced into his Bed Room that he was quite Dead thenDept. says the
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decad has been low spirited Dull and Melancholy these three or four
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Weeks pastDept. says the decad has behaved differently these three or
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four Weeks past to what he used to doDept. say the decad appeared very
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low spirited on Monday Morning before he went out
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Sworn this 10th. day of January
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1799 before me}
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Matthew Bell
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to Mr. Knott of Beech that
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Haberdasher
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maketh
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Oath that between five and six o Clock on Monday Eve last in consequence of
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the alarm by the servant of the decad he went up to the privy & found the deced
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in manner described by the last WitnessThat in a little while after a
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came and Dept a pistol to take the deced into his Bed Room that
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he was quite dead Dept. saw a Pistol taken from among the blood on the
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floor of the privythat the deced had a large wound or hole in his forehead
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which appeared to have been done by a Pistol Ball
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M Bell
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Sworn this 10th: day of January
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1799 before me}
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