City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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30th January 1797 - 28th December 1797

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31 July 1797
Informts. touchg the death of
Peter Degoyer< no role >

Verdict that the deced threw
a past of Water or a Woman
name unknown-that she attempd.
to take the pail from him, in
the course of which she letts go of
the pail he pulled it against his
Stomach & hurt himself and died.

Charles Dunn< no role > of Fleet market London Surgeon
maketh oath that last Saturday eve Dept was called to see
the deced whom he found on a step near his our house in Shoe
lane. Dept attempted to bleed him, but no blood came-That
his pulse and respiration were stopped and [..] the Jaw faller.
says he was then dead. says that yesterday afternon he will
another Gentleman of the faculty opened the body of the deced.
when he discovered the upper part of the liver of the deced was
muchbruised and injured which Dept believes was the cause of
his death. Dept observed no external marks of violence.

Sworn the 31st. [..] July 1797
before me

T. Shelton Corr.}

Chas. Dunn< no role >




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