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

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Image 313 of 63122nd June 1795


LondonInformations of Witnesses taken at
the precinct of Bridewell Hospital
in the Ward of Farringdon without in
London aforesaid on the 22d. June 1795
on view of the bodies of Morgan Mullet< no role >
& Owen Callaghan< no role > there lying dead

David Bowel< no role > of Elliots row Saint Mathew Bethnal
Green Carpenter maketh oath that last Friday afternoon
Dept was at work withthe twoseveral other persons upon
a building erecting at the back part of Bridewell Hospital
Says the two deced persons were there, Mullet was a
Bricklayer , & the other, Callaghan was a Bricklayers
labourer -that about a ¼ before five a sudden crack
happened and great part of [..] the building fell inthat dept
escaped, & afterwards on the went mustering together
the two deced persons and three others who were
afterwards taken out alive were missingSays they day for the
deced & found him between 12 & 1 the night of the same
dayhe was buried in the ruins & quite deadSays
that on the next day the other deced person Callaghan was
found, he was buried in the ruins & quite dead. Says he
does not know the occasion of the buildg falling on:

Sworn the 22nd
June 1795 before me

T: Shelton Corr.}

David Bowell< no role >




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