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Informations taken this
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30th.
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of December 1782
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there lying dead.
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Mary Ducrow
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Servant
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to the deceased at the time
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of his Death maketh oath and saith that on Sunday last the
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28th. day of December one
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Daniel Mc. Genniss
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who lodged
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in the Back Room of the two Pair of stairs Floor of the deced's
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Dwelling having after being a bread returned home between
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the Home of 5 and 6 in the Evening
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and on his entering his
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Apartment.
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Dept. went
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with him with
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a lighted
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Candle to his Apartmt. to light his Candle which being done
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Dept took the Tea things he had used
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his
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at Beach fast
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and brought them down presently after which as Dept.
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was about to set down in the Parlour upon the Ground Floor
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to drink Tea with the deced. and his wife she heard something
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fall upon the Sky Light over the placed where they
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were they
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were going to drink Tea which afterward appeared to be
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on Piss contained in the Chamber Pett of the sd. Daniel
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Mr. Gennis; that thereupon the deced. immediatly rase from
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the Chair he was siting on and taking a Candle in his Hand
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immediatly went up stairs to the sd. Mr. Genniss's apartmt.
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where Dept. heard loud word pass between the deced. and the sd.
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Mr. Genniss but Dept. could not dinking with any words
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particularly; that the deced. presently came down part of the
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stairs and Dept. standing at the Parlour Door saw the deced.
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coming down that first
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Pair stairs, during
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which time Dept. heard the sd. Mr. Gennis call the deced. a Theif
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twice and charged the deced with having robbed him its which
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the deced. forming up stairs asked sd. Mr. Gennis
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if the
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do you say so, I will make
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you prove it, I will have you before a Justices tomorrow , and
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immediately afterwds. Dept. heard the land which and land to which
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the deced had in his Hand Fall upon the Landing place of the
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stairs near the Kitchen, immediately on which one Eddie
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them
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standing with the
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Wife and Dept.
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to the deced. Dept. following her and Dept. saw the deced. lying on
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his Back on the Floor
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of the Landing place his Head
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lying in the Kitchen and his Legs on the Landing place and
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Dept. thinking the deced to be in a Fit the raised
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up his Head
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and the sd. Lancashire saying the saw blood abt. the deced the
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deced.'s
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in Dept. presance in buttoned his Waistcoat when
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Dept. said a Wound upon the left side of this
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Breast and much
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Blood issuing from it and his wife taking off her
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applied to the Wound and says that in stantly affer Dept.
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had raised the deced.'s Head up as aforesd. he gave one Gas in and
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expired
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that Mr.
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says that whilst the deced lay dead and Dept. was raising
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him she tread sd. Mr. Genniss cry out four the Window of his Lodging
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that a Mar was murdered and furr. Dept.
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not. And Dept. fur.
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say that the deced had not
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during
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which he is and up stair is this of the sd.
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anything in his Hard Save the sd. land which and Candle
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Sworn the
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30th. day of Decr. 1782
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before me
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Tho: Beach Corr.
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Mary
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Ducrow
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