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

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Image 435 of 7125th May 1786


Jacob Taghill< no role > living at No 2 Spread Eagle Court Grayor Inn Lane Aged
about Eleven Years Upon his Oath Saith that he hath the Deposition of
Lewis Mullins< no role > Read and that he knows it all to be true except that he does
not Remember hearing the said John Graham< no role > Say before he Crossed the Road
that he thought it was a Lump of Clay

The Mark of
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Jacob Taghill< no role >

Thomas Nixon< no role > a Pupil of Mr. John Hodges< no role > of Frith Street Soho Surgeon
Upon his Oath Saith that this Day he Viewed the Body of the Deseased And
Observed a Small Wound on the left Side about a Quarter of an Inch long and about
Skin deef And on the Skull a Blow or Contusion Where upon this Deponent
Opened the Head and Body and found some extravarsated Blood Under the
Skull but no Apparent Injury in the Body Saith that upon Tryal of the
Common Experiment of the Lungs is Satisfied that the Child was Cornalive
and that it was about a Dayor two Old and Apprehend that the Child had been
flung into the Water alive and Drowned and that the Bruise before mentioned was
not of Sufficient Consequence to Cause Death

Thomas Nixon< no role >




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