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<p n="308">Davis and also <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n308-1">young Richards</rs>
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, and told<lb></lb>
and Davis his Message, that Davis and<lb></lb>
Richards both sett off to go Home<lb></lb>
immediately, that this Examt. met said<lb></lb>
Mrs Davis in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo227">Bedford Street</rs>
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aforesaid<lb></lb>
between 9 and 10 oClock that Evening, when<lb></lb>
she told this Examinant she sent him<lb></lb>
for her Husband, on Account of having<lb></lb>
found a Dead Body, an going down<lb></lb>
Stairs under the Watch House for a<lb></lb>
Pail of Water, and that she had been<lb></lb>
greatly frightened by it</p>
<p n="309"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n309-42">Francis<lb></lb>
The Mark<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
Messam</rs>
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<p n="310"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n310-1">Wm Read</rs>
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of No. 82 <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo228">High Holborn</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Pastry look being Sworn and Examined at the<lb></lb>
time and place last abovementioned maketh<lb></lb>
Oath and Saith that last Sunday Night at near<lb></lb>
eleven oClock He saw <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n310-2">Young Richards</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n310-3">Rees<lb></lb>
Davis</rs>
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two of the Beadles of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo229">St Andrew,<lb></lb>
Holborn above the Barrs</rs>
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at the Watch house<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45033_geo230">Bedford Street</rs>
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, when sd Davis told this Examt.<lb></lb>
in the Presence of Richards, "they" (meaning<lb></lb>
Davis and Richards) " were got into a Scrape"<lb></lb>
this Examt asked "what" when One or both<lb></lb>
said "had not this Examt. heard" this Examinant<lb></lb>
replied "No" - One or both then said "a Man"<lb></lb>
"had been brought into the Watch House on"<lb></lb>
"Wednesday Night and been Ordered by"<lb></lb>
"the Constable Down Stairs, that the Man"<lb></lb>
"was left there till four o'Clock in the"<lb></lb>
"Thursday Afternoon having been forget"<lb></lb>
"and was then found dead"</p>
<p n="311"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45033_n311-1">Wm: Read</rs>
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