City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Image 269 of 86125th May 1792


William Graham< no role > a Waterman and a Lodger
at the Cooper Arms Tooser Hill London maketh Oath
that he hath known the deced during the time he lived
at the Coopers Armsthat Dept. slept in the same Room
with the decedthat he has often seen the deced
sit on the Bed and cry and very often low spirited
and Melancholythat the decedsay dohas told
Dept. he was in business, once for himself and was
burnt out of his House that by which he lost Seven
hundred Pounds. that whenever he hathed
about it he appeared very much affected and
would wish he was dead and cryed very much
at the timethat he has shown Dept some Duplicate
of [..] wearing Apparel he had pledgedwhite
that upon the alarm being given on Wednesday night
last that the deced had hanged himself Dept. went
down into the Cellar of Mr. Hunts House that he
found the deced hanging in the Manner described
by the Witness Ann Jones< no role > Dept. immediately out
the deced down that there appeared to be Life
in him Dept. went for a Doctor that a Doctor
came who bled the deced that a few Drops of blood
came from the deced but the deced never recovered

Sworn the 25th day of
May 1792 before me}

William Graham< no role >




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