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28th. day
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for the City and Liberty aforesaid
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touching the death of
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then and there lying dead in follows
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sworn saith that on Monday the Eleventh
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day of February 1793 between 5 and 6 o'Clock
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in the Evening that he heard some in the
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adjoining room when he lodged No. in said Street which
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a purpect falling down on the Floor and
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he heard some body cry out murder
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whereupon this Deponent went into the
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Room where her found the deceased alone lying
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on the Floor near the
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all in a
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blaze and he immediately pulled her
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further from the Fire Place and endeavoured
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to extingquish the Fire of her Cloaths
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which pulled part of her Cloaths from
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off one side of her when she was
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insensible and Speechless when some
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Neighbours came into the Room and one
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