City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1795 - 31st December 1795

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Image 308 of 63122nd June 1795


London


Thos. Shelton< no role >
Corr.


An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that is to say
at the precinct of Bridewell Hospital in the ward of Farringdon without in London aforesaid
on the twenty second day of June in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of
the faith and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King
for the City of London and Borough of Southwark on view of the body of Owen Callaghan< no role >
now here lying dead by the oath of Roger Owen< no role > Thomas Couling< no role > Robert Smart< no role > John Gearing< no role >
Ralph Young< no role > Richard Humphries< no role > William Barnes< no role > Isaac Estridge< no role > William Russell< no role >
Robert Hatton< no role > John Harris< no role > William Randall< no role > and Richard Murrell< no role > good and lawful men of
the City of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and Charged to inquire for
our said Lord the King when how and in what manner the said Owen Callaghan came
to his death say upon their oath that the said Owen Callagham< no role > and divers other persons
to the Jurors unknown being employed upon a certain building then erecting and building
there situate It so happened that part of the said building accidentally casually and by
misfortune gave way and fell down to and upon the said Owen Callaghan< no role > by means whereof
the said Owen Callaghan< no role > in and with the ruins of the said building was then and there
mortally bruised in and upon divers parts of body and suffocated and smothered of which said
mortal bruises suffocation and smothering the said Owen Callaghan< no role > did then and there
instantly die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said
Owen Callaghan< no role > in manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally casually and by misfortune
came to his death and not otherwise In Witness where of as well the said Coroner as the said
Roger Owen< no role > to Foreman of the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his fellows in
their presence have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place
first abovewritten

Roger Oween [mark] Foreman




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