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<p n="104"> <note type="authorial" place="margin">Westmr.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n104-1">Catharine Wells</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ54">Wife</rs>
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of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n104-2">Joshua Wells</rs>
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of<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo108">St George Hanover Square</rs>
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taken the 12th. day of September 1753<lb></lb>
Touching the death of <rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n104-3">John Shivers</rs>
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<p n="105">This Informant Saith That on Tuesday the twenty eighth<lb></lb>
day of August last about Seven or Eight Minutes after Eight o' Clock in the<lb></lb>
Morning as she was Standing at her Masters door in <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo109">Upper Brook<lb></lb>
Street</rs>
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a Gentleman in Gray Clothes came by and Seem'd in a great<lb></lb>
Concern, and said a Man had Knockt a Boy down and She beleived had<lb></lb>
Killd him and <obscured></obscured>
Some body would beat him as much or to that purpose,<lb></lb>
that she this Informant Soon after went into <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50422_geo110">Hyde Park</rs>
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and saw the deced<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSMPS50422_n105-1">John Shivers</rs>
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<interp inst="LMSMPS50422_n105-1" type="gender" value="male"></interp>
lay under a Walnut tree and found him Senseless and<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
Speechless, that he lay on his Side and that she turn'd him on his<lb></lb>
Back and found Some blood under him, and that putting her Hand<lb></lb>
in his Pockett she<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
found a few Walnutts, That she then lay his<lb></lb>
Hatt under his head and left him. She further Saith that<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
Saw no body in the Park all that time, That she call'd at the Hou<obscured></obscured>
<lb></lb>
at the Gate and saw a Man Sitting there, and she told him of the boys<lb></lb>
being there and he Seem'd to take no notice of it, That she then went<lb></lb>
out of the Park to her Husband and returng Sometime afterwards ahe<lb></lb>
Saw Several People about the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Boy and that he was then Carried<lb></lb>
to the Hospital</p>
<p n="106">She further Saith that the Gentlemen, did not say what<lb></lb>
Sort of a Man or what duss the man was in who as she said Struck<lb></lb>
the Boy.</p>
<p n="107">taken and Acknowledge<lb></lb>
in Oath before R: Jackson<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="LMSMPS50422_occ55">Coroner</rs>
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