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Sarah South
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Saith That-the deceased was an Apprentice to her
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Father in Law and had Sawed about Two Years of
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his time in the Business of & Watch movement make
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that he has at times been troubled with a kind of
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Stupefaction and when he has Recovered himself has
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often threatened to make away with himself
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Yesterday he was sent on an Exand. & on his Return
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went into the then taken was gave same time
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was searched for found drinking out of a Has an &
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when asked what he had been drinking made us
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Reply. but went up Stairs laid himself on a Red
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was very Sick & when asked what was the Matter
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said he had bought a Penny worth of Arsenic of
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Mr. Aikenhead & had Poisoned himself-Deponents
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Brother asked her he could to so wicked he said
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he had Robbed his Mistress & was ashamed tell.
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every proper Method was taken to expell the poison.
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but deceased. submitted with great Reluctance.
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Said he wished to die as he was too wicked to live.
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