London Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say at the Paris of Saint Sepulchre
in the Ward of Farringdon without
in
London
aforesaid the 28th. day of June 1790
on view of the Body of William Hussey< no role >
then and there lying Dead
Charles Dixon< no role >
of No. 21 Corner of Charter house Street
in the Parish of Saint Sepulchre London Grocer
maketh Oath
that about the hour of eight in the Evening of Saturday last the
26th. instant he saw the deced and two Men get into a Waggon
drawn by (as Dept. believes) four Horses [..] in
Long Lane
in said Parish a little above Depts. Door
[..] that one of the Men laid himself
down in the bottom of the Waggon-one of the other two Men placed himselfethemselves
in the front of the Waggon-and the other Man placed himself
at the side of the Waggon-that they appeared very much
intoxicated with Liquor-and Dept. thinking them in danger
halloed out and asked them why they did not sit down
that soon after the Driver of the Waggon his one of the Horses
which made the Horses in drawing the Waggon go rather
faster than before and I asked the Waggon in so much that the
two Men in the from of the Waggon both fell out into the Street
in Long Lane
aforesaid that the Waggon and Horses were immediately stopped-and
Dept: saw the two Men who had been [..] in the front
of the Waggonwerelying in the Street-that Dept. went to them
that they appeared very much hurt and lay quite unless
that some people came and picked them up and carried them
away and Dept. saw nothing more
Sworn the 28th: day of June
1790 before me}
T. Shelton
Chas. Dixon< no role >
Robert Olding< no role >
a Lodger at No. 2 Eagle Court in Eagle Street
Holborn
Wireworker
maketh Oath that on Saturday Afternoon
last he first saw the deced and two other Men in Goswell
Street very much intoxicated that Deponent followed them
from thence into Long Lane
-that during that time they had
several quarrels- [..] and struck each other but were parted
that the deced and [..] said Man whom he had quarrelled
with got into the Waggon in Long Lane
-that soon after they had
got into the Waggon they quarrelled and struck each other again
that