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Tallow Chandler Father of the deced on his
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is a Window belonging to a cellar which opens
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Wednesday in the afternoon, between two and three
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he saw his Son at play within the Rails, says he
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says he opened the window
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informed that his Son had fallen down into the Cellar
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be looked down and discovered him there lying, says
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he went down immediately and brought the deced
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up,
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and Men saw a little Blood upon the flooring of
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the Cellar he observed a
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looking on it
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to be the Business of a Surgeon to attend the deced
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upon which Dept. sent for Mr. Brow field a Surgeon
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who on examining the deced in formed Dept. that his
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Mr.
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himself and was capable of conversing, says Dept. asked
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the deced how the Accident happened, to which the
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deced replyed that he was walking backward drawing
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