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Who being upon Oath says that on the 20th. of Octr. last
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between the house of nine and ten at Night at which Since he
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one Mrs. Clarke came and Informed him that some Body was then
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Murdering his Young Women at the
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Ann Bourk
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now Deceased) whereupon this Informt. un out to sea
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what was the Matter when he found the aforesaid Ann Bourk
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down upon the Ground and one
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upon her Beating of
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her says that he this Informt. immediately, with the assistance of one
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Michael Bulger
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then prevent, parted the said two Womens and that
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this Informt. then discovered the said Arm Bourk to be allower
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Blood, that this Informt. then helled the said Arm Bourk in his
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Arms when she declared to him that she was Murdred, that the
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should Die, the shou'd Die, for that she was stabbed by that Women
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meaning,
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then present, says he then give her into the
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hands of the aforesaid Bulger and desired him to take her into
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the aforesaid Mr. Frenches Honve, which he at the same time
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into Custody, and by the Assistance of
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others Conveyed her in a Coach together with the Injured Person Ann
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Bourk before the Magistrate where he saw sixteen wounds or
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more in different parts of the said Arm Bourk's Body, says that
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after her Wounder were dressed in the aforesaid Mr. Trenches House
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the same Right, he this Informt. asked the said Arm Bourk how
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She came to be Wounded in that manner, and her the Quarrel
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first begin whom she made the following declaration Viz. that
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she was going to feteh a pett of Beers to the aforesaid Mrs.
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Trenchs, and that at the Cornes of the Court she mett with the
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, that at the same time two Men
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