City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1793 - 28th December 1793

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Image 932 of 97817th December 1793


William Small< no role > Servant to John Granger< no role > the last
Witness maketh Oath that about six O'Clock Yesterday
Morning on Dept. coming down Stairssonear the bottom
of the one pair of Stairs he put his hand upon something [..]
it being dark he did not then know what it was but it fell
like the head of some person Dept. got a Light and upon
going to the Stairs he found the deced in a sitting posture
upon the third or fourth Stair from the bottom that he was
quite dead and Cold-that there appeared to be a great deal of
Blood upon the deceds Left Leg and upon the Stairs
down the bottom of the Stairs-that Dept. acquainted
his Master of having found the deced

Sworn this 17th: day of December 1793
before me}

his
William [mark] Small< no role >
Mark

George Johnson< no role > of Swan Street in the parish of saint
Botolph without Aldgate London Surgeon maketh Oath
that about ½ part Six Yesterday Morning Dept. examined
the deced that he found a great deal of Blood upon the Stocking
and on the Shoe of the left Leg of the deced-that Dept. got
the deceds Stocking off and found a Corroive Ulear on the
left Legin the nighbourhood of which there are large
Vessels which in all propa [..] [..] were ruptured and
praduced a violent bleeding which Dept. harnsdoube
occasioned the deceds Death.

Geoe. Johnson

Sworn this 17th: day of December 1793
before me}




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