City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1799 - 31st December 1799

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Image 105 of 85828th February 1799


London Informations of Witnesses taken at the
Parish of Saint Giles without
Cripplegate in the Ward of Cripplegate
in London the 28th. day of Febry 1799 on
view of the body of a female Infant.

Edward Burton< no role > This name instance is in set 1941. of Red Cross Street London
Warder of the Parish of Saint Giles with Cripplegate
maketh oath that last Monday Dept. being informed
an Infant was laying in a hole of Du [..] thunter
meeting house at London Wall he went there and found
the deced, part of its body in a cloth, and hadthe Childit
taken from thence to the poor house

Edwd Burton< no role >

William Alcock< no role > of little Moorfields London
Dr. of Physic maketh oath that he saw the body of
the deced Infant on Monday last and on examining it
found marks of violence on the Throat or Neck of which
appeared to dept to have been occasioned of the pressure
of same Persons pengers Says the fewhead of the Child was
injured seemingly by having been careless by thrown down
or rubbed against something says the Child was perfect in
all its parts and he believes at was been a live and that its
death was occasioned by Strang taken

Sworn the 28th. day of Febry 1799
before me
T: Shelton Coroner

Wm. Alcock< no role > M D




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