City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th July 1788 - 30th December 1788

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Image 152 of 46522nd September 1788


heard a member of people crying stop, stop, That a
Coach was then passing by a smart foot, seven or eight
Miles an hour as past as they generally go over the stones
& Woman then hanging by the Coach door & a Man hold
of the Skirts of her Cloaths & he continued running by the side
of the Coach & Lord of the deced Cloaths untill the deced dropp [..]
& the hind near Wheel of the Coach passed over her body
the Coach going the same pace, & a man on the box, whom he
does not know, calling out just before the [..]
Woman pole Fire Fire

W J Burrowes

Sworn the 22nd day of
Sepr 1788 before me}
Thos. Shelton< no role > Corr.

John Walson< no role > of No.2 be like Swan alley Saint John
Street Labourer maketh oath that last Satr. eve Dept stopped
at the house of Mr. Vickers the form or Work of, whereal was
the Steffield Coach, and many people around it & a none if
people quarrelling & dept went up [..] to the Coach & saw the
deced hanging by the Coach door, and asked Woman written
side for her peds & sayed she was a dirty woman or not paying
herDept seeing the Woman in great danger asked who
she belonged to & the first Witness Connell sayed she
belonged to him and Dept swore at him and asked him
why he did not take care of her, & he [..] took hold of
one of deceds arms, Dept hold of her Cloaths, & the
Coachman hallowed out to clear out the Coach, & the
Guard [..] also hallood to the her [..] around the Coach to
clear it or he won a fire & the Winter sayed he did not
value his firing & the Dead sayed she would follow the
Coach if it went to hall, & the kept last hold of the
Coach, She passenger desiring the Coachman to drive in &
also the lyes sanders, The Coachman then drove strot about 7 or 8




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