City of London Coroners:
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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Image 569 of 97815th July 1793


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Informations of Witnesses taken at Saint Barthows .
Hospital in the City of London in the
parish of Saint Barthw. the less in the
Ward of Farringdon without in London the
15 July 1793 on view of the body of Wm.
Crocker there lying dead.

Sarah Crocker< no role > Widow of the deced of No. 21 Chiswell
Street in the parish of Saint Luke in the County of Middx
maketh oath and saith that last Sunday afternoon the deced
and Depts agreed to go out together and take somewhere
- that she deced asked Dept what he should put on, and she
answered whatever he pleased, & she had opened the drawer where
his Kings were - upon which he sayed that if she did not
sell him what to put on he would throw all his strass out of
the Window & himself afterwards, and he then look Lord of a
smock pock and Maistaval & throw them out of the
Window - a three pair of Stairs room - and he ran to the
Window, and Dept ran down Stairs being much bright and he
having several times attempted to destroy himself - that she
soon afterwards heard a house in the Street - that Dept afterwds
was taken down into a night waring public house and the deced
was bro's into the house and laid upon a table, and he
was afterwds. carried to the Hospital.

Sworn the 15 July 1753
before me T. Shelton Corr.}

The Mark of
Sarah W Crocker< no role >

James Lewis< no role > Kennedy of Duke Street London
Cork Cutter< no role > in wheth Oath that last Sunday afternoon about
five as Dept was passing near the Cop of Bunhill Row by
Chiswell Street he saw the deced threw somethings out of a three




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