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<p n="1570"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1570-1">Andrew Hassak</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65213_occ368">Servant</rs>
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to Mr. Starkie Brewer in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65213_geo1242">little<lb></lb>
Poltney Street</rs>
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on his Oath says that yesterday Morning that was<lb></lb>
an Alarm at the Bewhouse just as they had done Breakfast<lb></lb>
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between 7 & 8, one <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1570-2">David Smart</rs>
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& his<del>son</del>
Man came and told<lb></lb>
them that <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1570-3">Elizabeth Cooper</rs>
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had hanged herself, he went directly<lb></lb>
and when he came he found the Deced Door open and one on<lb></lb>
two Men & some Women in the Room and Deponent saw the Deced hanging<lb></lb>
with her feet rather on the ground, Deponent asked why they<lb></lb>
had not cut her down before, they said they had no Knife<lb></lb>
Deponent took his Knife out of her Pocket and cut her down<lb></lb>
he fell her Hand and formd it quite cold, her Arm rather<lb></lb>
Warm and the fore part of her Head quite warm, she was<lb></lb>
Carried up into the Yard, a Person way sent for to Bleed her,<lb></lb>
he came in about 10 Minutes and tied up her Arm, but<lb></lb>
said there was no Vein to be formdDeponent says he has<lb></lb>
known the Deced about 7 Years, says she was rather given<lb></lb>
to Liquor, beleives because the Deced had not Money to go<lb></lb>
on with occasioned her to Hang herself</p>
<p n="1571"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1571-99">And Hesack</rs>
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<p n="1572"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65213_n1572-1">Thomas Weaver</rs>
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at Mr. Harkie's Newhouse on his<lb></lb>
Oath says that<del>Yesterday</del>
the Deced used to came to the<lb></lb>
Newhouse for Small Beer in order to sale the same again<lb></lb>
3 days in a Week, but Yesterday Morning she did not come<lb></lb>
thought it way the Day she was expected, she generally used<lb></lb>
to come about 6 or 7 o Clock, the Deponent was desired by his<lb></lb>
Master to go and see whether the Deced was not well, the<lb></lb>
Deponent did not know where she lived, but saw a Man that<lb></lb>
did know and asked him to go & shew him, they went to the<lb></lb>
House & the other Man asked the Woman in the Parlour where<lb></lb>
the Deceds Room was, she said down in the Back Kitchen<lb></lb>
the Man went down & the Deced staid on the top of the<lb></lb>
Stairs, the Man knocked at the Door and called Several times<lb></lb>
but no Body answered, he looked through the Keyhole and<lb></lb>
sd. he thought he could perceive some Body, the Deponent them<lb></lb>
went down but could not see any thing that the Key holes but<lb></lb>
perceived a light but could not tell where it came fromDeponent<lb></lb>
went into the Yard and shoved the Window Lash back of the</p>
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