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Handkerchief round his Stock and one and of the
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Handkerchief fastened to a Screw in the Wainscot
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Deponent caught hold if the Deceased round the middle
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and desired them to cut it.
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Charles Pordon
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stept on
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the Bed and pulled the Screw out and the Deceased
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was laid down on the BedSome warmth was in the
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Body bort the extremities were quite coldDeponent
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thought him DeadDeponent sent for Doctors but did
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not see that any cameDeponent saw the Deceased
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the Morning of that Day about Nine o'Clock at Mr.
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Radnor's, appeared to be in Liquorabout Eleven o'Clock
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he asked the Deceased what he should like to have for
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Dinner, he answered any thing he did not care what
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Deponent went and bought some Fishabout half of he
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Twelve o'Clock the Visiting Member of the Club the Deced
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belonged to came, and they went out together; but before
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the Deceased went out Deponent told him that Dinner
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was just readythe Deceased made Answer he should
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have noneDeponent never saw him afterwards alive
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the Deceased had drank Beer and Twopenny till the
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time he went out with the Visiting Member of the Club
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Deponent has known the Deceased Twelve or Thirteen
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Years, fallowed the employment of a Porter, but has not
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been able for several Years past to work much, or carry
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Loadswhen the Deceased was perfectly Sober he appeared
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to he low Spirited and would not speak for many Hours
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togetherwithin a Week or Fortnight past Deponent has
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frequently hear with the Deceased, and after being
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tent
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for some time, he has began to speak reflecting upon
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himself for his past folliesDeponent says the Deceased
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was very often in Liquor, and then both in his Speech and
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Action he was like a Man deranged in his Senses, and
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when Sober was low spirited and Melon-chally, and he
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believes that the Deceased Hanged himself.
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William Finn
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Charles Burdon
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a
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and
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lodger
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was with the Deced at Mr.
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Rodnors on his Oath saith
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Mrs. Belchors in
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, on his Oath saith that he saw the Deceased in Mr. Radnors Tap Room on
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Saturday last about Eleven oClock in the Forenoon the Deceased asked him if he would have
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some Gin, he said he did not care if he had
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called for half a Pint, there were four in Company and
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Drank aslass ape
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, the Deceased in Deponents opinion
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