City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1798 - 28th December 1798

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Image 371 of 62431st July 1798


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Informations of Witnesses taken at the parish of
Saint Dunstan in the East in the
Ward of Tower in London 31 July
1798 on view of the body of Jeremiah
Harris
< no role > there lying dead

William Murray< no role > of No. 38 Vere street Clam
Market a Gangman at Ralphs Quay maketh
Oath that the dead was employed Yesterday morng
at Ralph Quay< no role > to work in a Crane with two
other men That one of the men got out of the
Crane for some purpose learning the deer & the
other in it and they remained in it eight or her
mounts when as Dept is a found & he heard they
understood a lsynae was Juror for how very same Coffee
they were craning upon the Wharf about occasioned them
to get forced in the Came and the in coming were
the height of the coffer which was susponded over the
side od the Wharf ever persone them and one man
escaped by jumping out but the deced remained in
the Wheel & by the remains if it very rounf he read
mary such bruises whish occasioned his death in a ford
minutes

William Murray< no role >

Sworn the 31 July 1798
before me T Shelton Corr,




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