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

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Image 538 of 71222nd June 1786


Mare was gone for a Ladder to assist in gobling
up the deceased Stephen Jordan< no role >

Nicholas Winkworth Russell< no role > of Kensington
aforesaid Surgeon upon his Oath Saith that
he was called to attend the deceased after
he was taken out of the hole and is of
opinion he died of Suffocation occasioned
by the Twenty of the Stench arising
from the Soil which caused an obstruction
of the blood which was certainly the
Cause of his Death.

Wm Russell< no role >

George Timber< no role > of Kensington aforesaid
Labourer and Nightman Upon his Oath
Saith when Jordan hung by the Ladder
deceased slept down by the rope of the
[..] trat to assist in bringing up Jordon &
when he got & to the buttom got out &
stood 3 foot in Soil & instantly seemed
over powered with the Stench.a Ladder




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