London
Informations of witnesses taken as the parish of
Saint Bartholomew the Great
in the Ward
of Farringdon
without in London the 1st. day
of June 1790
on view of the body of
Sarah
Curtis< no role >
there lying dead.
Mary Jones< no role >
wife
of Thomas Jones< no role >
of Kings land Road
Middlesex
labourer
maketh oath that yesterday sennight about
nine o'Clock in the eve. Dept saw the deced returning from a public
house to cross the highway in Kingsland road
-that the deced came
down the steps of the public house and stepped off the footway into
the public road jud before a Coach and horses
that was driving very
Past, [..] galloping; that one of the horses beat her down and [..]
she screamed out violently, and then the Coachman drove on at a great
rate. That the deced was taken up and put into a Coach and coudlyed
as Depts belives to Saint Bartholomews Hospital
.
Sworn the 1st. June 1790
before me T. Shelton Corr}
The Mark of
Mary [mark] Jones< no role >
Sarha Ball of Kingsland road
Middlesex
Minster
maketh oath that yesterday sennight between 8 9 in the eve
Dept saw a Coach and pair of Storses come along the road towards London;
it was driving a middling pace, the horses not galloping; that the heard
a sereaming, and afterwards the Coach went on very fast and the horses
galloped, and Dept immediately ran into the highway and found the deced
lying upon the highway, say me of her arms appeared to have been much
hurt.
Sworn the 1st. June 1790
before me
T. Shelton Corr.}
The Mark of
Sarah [mark] Bale< no role >