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Joseph Ferdinando Gillio
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Parish of St. George Hanover Square
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on his Oath saith
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That on Wednesday (March 25th last) he was desired
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by Lord Dudley, at the Board, to go to see a Man in
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Leigh's Mews who was said to have cut his Throat,
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Says that he went and found the Deced in a Garret there
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having a large wound on the forepart of his Neck
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and the windpipe hacked in three different places,
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says that the Deced had lost a great Quantity of Blood Says
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that the Deced was very low, and that Depont, sent him
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to the Work house in a Chair, where he dressed the wound
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Says that the Deced the same day complained in his side of a
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of a Cough & severe Spitting, which
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Cough & Spitting he said wa
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old
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Complaints, Says that
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three days a Blister
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was applied to the Deced's side, that the pain continued,
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and on wednesday Morning last he complained
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of the Flux, that the purging continued until the time
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of his death which happened yesterday Morning
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(April 3d) Says that he Dressed the Wound in
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the Workhouse, and took all proper care of the Deced
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and Dept. believes as that the Deced's death was not
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in Consequence of the wound, but to the other
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Complaints abovementioned. And this Dept. says
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that he saw two Rasors and a Penknife in the
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Window Bloody in Deced's Garret, and that Deced
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told Dept. that he did it as well as he could
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meaning the wound in his Throat as Dept. understood
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J Gillio
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William Dixon
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Servant
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to Mr. Britten on his Oath
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saith That he followed his Master to the Deced's Grant
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on Wednesday (March 25th.) and saw the Deced there with
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a Wound in his Throat and much blood upon his Shirt
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& in the room, Says that some time after where the Deced
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was able to speak, and was sensible Dept. asked him
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how he came to do that Act, to which Deced answered
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that being an old Man and out of work, he did it
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for want.
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Severally Sworn the Day
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Year & Place abovementioned
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