Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 245 of 71216th December 1785


That ye sd. Man Unknown nothing of sound Mind.
Memory & Understanding but Lunatic & destracted on
ye. 14th: day of December in ye Yeon afsd. at ye from. & in ye Co.
afsd. to wit into ye certain Never Neck alled New River did cast & the out himself by
[..] of wele sd. casting of lename Of ye sd. Man Unknown into
ye sd. New River as afsd. he ye sd. Man unknown in ye Waters
of ye sd. River was then & there suffocated a drowned of which
sd. Suffocation & drowning he ye sd. Man Unknown did then &
there instantly die And so ye Jun. afsd. upon their Oath afsd
do say that he ye sd. Man Unknown in manner & lay ye.
means afsd. Not being of sound mind memory & Understandg
but Lunatic & destructed did drown Luke himself.
In Witn. Etc.




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