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

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Image 319 of 71220th February 1786


Mary (the Wife of John Fuller< no role > ) now living with Mrs. Horseman the
Deceaseds Wife upon her Oath saith that on Saturday Morning the Eleventh
instant Mrs: Horseman Kept with her in a small Room on the ground floor
with two of her Children and the Deceased Slept in the Room above
and the reason was why Mrs. Horseman Slept with this examinant was
that the deceased could not bear the noise of one of the Children who was
ill, Saith that one of the Deceaseds Children called Mrs. Horseman about
two o Clock said the deceased was ill and wanted her she went up immediately
and presently afterwards came down to this Examinant and said her Husband
was Murdered upon with this Examinant went upstairs and found the deceased
in a most Stocking State covered with blood which so frightned this Examinant
that she could not stay in the Room Saith that on the Tuesday before the accident
happened Joseph Richards< no role > was at the Deceaseds House in the Kitchen with a
large Stick with a Not at the end of it and a hole into which he poured some
lead he had been melting in a Tobacco Pipe for the purpose and which Stick
She saw the day after the accident had happened and which Stick Mrs
Horseman told this Examinant was found in the deceaseds Room and which
she is Sure is the same Stick she saw the said Joseph Richards< no role > with or
the Tueday before

Mary Fuller< no role >

John Trotman< no role > a Farrier and Blacksmith at Kentish Town
aforesaid upon his Oath saith that he hath Lodged at the Deceaseds House
near three quarters of a Year, that he Slept in a One pair of Stairs Room
even with a Room in which the Deceased slept. that William Horseman< no role >
a Son of the Deceased slept in the same Bed with him and one Thomas Fuller< no role >
and Samuel Loveless< no role > two other Boys slept in another Bed in the same
Room, that on Saturday morning the Eleventh Instant they were all
in Bed and this examinant was waked out of a sound Sleep about two
O Clock by Thomas Fuller< no role > who told him the deceased was very ill upon
which Examinant Called out to him Horseman what is the matter with
you, do your Teeth ack (he being used to that pain) he answered
Lord bless ye John something has run over my (ace upon which Examinant
Sent the Son who slept with this Examinant to call his Mother, he did so
and she came up immediately without a light and having inquired
what was the matter went down again and brought up a Candle and
as the Doors of both Rooms are opposite each other Examinant set up
in his Bed and saw the Deceased sitting on his Bed with his head
Covered with blood Mrs. Horseman then brought an Iron Bar
into this Examinants Room and Shewed it him and said her dear
Husband was murdered and Shewed him some blood on the Bar




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