London
and
Southwark
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Depositions of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Saint Thomas within the Town
and Borough of Southwark
in the County
of Surrrey
the 11th. day of December 1789
on view of the Body of
Hannah Wilson< no role >
then and there lying Dead.
Charlotte Wife of Thomas Davies< no role >
a Hatmaker
and
a Lodger at Mr Chambers a Carpenter
in Winfield
Street
Whitegate Alley Whitechapel
maketh Oath
that about a quarter past seven in the Evening of
Wednesday last the 9th. instt: Dept. met the deced on the narrow
part of the pavement near the Gateway leading into
Saint Thomas Street
in the Borough
that there were
two other Young Women in Company with the deced
that whilst the deced and Deponent were talking
together the deced standing with as Dept. thinks one
Foot on the pavement and the other Foot in the Road a
Dray came past drawn by three Horses, that One
Man was on the Dray and [..] a Man of the side of
the Horses,thatwith a Whip in his hand that the
place goes with a deicent that the Horses seemed to came
along rather fast that the deced had just bid Dept. good
by, when by some meansthe Whee theirOne of the
Wheels of the Dray
caught hold of the deced and threw
her down that Dept being verry much frightened ran
away that soon after the deced was brought into
St. Thomas's Hospital
Sworn 11 Decer 1789 before me
T. Shelton Corr.
Charlotte
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Richard Grindley< no role >
servant
to Mr. John Atkinson< no role >
of
No. 278 Borough high Street
maketh oath that on
Wednesday Evening last about ½ past seven Dept. hearing
a Woman Shriek out ran out of his Masters House and
saw the deced lying on her back in the Road that she