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

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Image 480 of 71229th May 1786


That [..] sd Alexr Martin< no role > not being of Sound Mind Memory & Undersg but Lunatic and
distracted on the 29 day of May in the Year afsd at the Par & [..] in the Co afsd in the Ow No of Jas
Berridge there Sit with a Certain Razor made of Iron & Steel of the Val of 2d;
which he the sd A. M then & there had & held in his Right hand the Throat [..]
Gulletof himself the sd AM did then & there Strikethat &penetrate & Cut thereby
then & there giving unto himself so being lunatic & Distracted as afsd with the
Razor as afsd in & Upon the Throator Gulletof him the sd Am one Mortal
Wound of the Length of 3 In & of the Depth of 1 In of wch sd Mortal Wound
he the sd Am then & there Instantly died And so the Jurors afsd upon




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