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The Information of
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taken the 12th. day of September 1753
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Touching the death of
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This Informant Saith That on Tuesday the twenty eighth
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day of August last about Seven or Eight Minutes after Eight o' Clock in the
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Morning as she was Standing at her Masters door in
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a Gentleman in Gray Clothes came by and Seem'd in a great
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Concern, and said a Man had Knockt a Boy down and She beleived had
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Killd him and
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Some body would beat him as much or to that purpose,
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that she this Informant Soon after went into
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Hyde Park
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and saw the deced
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lay under a Walnut tree and found him Senseless and
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Speechless, that he lay on his Side and that she turn'd him on his
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Back and found Some blood under him, and that putting her Hand
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in his Pockett she
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found a few Walnutts, That she then lay his
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Hatt under his head and left him. She further Saith that
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Saw no body in the Park all that time, That she call'd at the Hou
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at the Gate and saw a Man Sitting there, and she told him of the boys
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being there and he Seem'd to take no notice of it, That she then went
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out of the Park to her Husband and returng Sometime afterwards ahe
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Saw Several People about the
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Boy and that he was then Carried
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to the Hospital
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She further Saith that the Gentlemen, did not say what
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Sort of a Man or what duss the man was in who as she said Struck
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the Boy.
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taken and Acknowledge
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in Oath before R: Jackson
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