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Informations of Witnesses taken this twentieth
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Morning last about ten O'Clock Deponent was going along
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Orchard Street in the said Parish of St. Margaret and saw
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come out of a House there crying, upon which Depot.
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asked her what was the Matter to which she Answered
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that one of her Lodgers was hanging, whereupon
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Deponent and
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a Woman who lodged in the
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(being two pair of Stairs) and there found a Man endeavouring to open the
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Door, which was locked, and the Key in the Lock or
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the inside of the Door, Deponent says that with a
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immediately after deponent, with his Knife cut the
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