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Informations of Witnesses severally taken and acknowledged
on the Behalf of Our Sovereign Lord the thing touching
the Death of a certain Male Child in the Parish of
St. Mary le Bone in the County of Middlesex
on the Nineteenth day of April in the Year of
Our Lord 1787 Before Me Richard Collett< no role > One
of his Majesty's Coroners for the said County,
On an Inquisition then and there taken on View
of the said Male Child, then and there lying
dead, as follows

Salomon Amaron< no role > Maitre d Hotel , with His
Excellency Compte de Worowzon at No 36 , Harley
Street Cavendish Square , Maketh Oath and Saith
that between eight & nine oClock in the Evening of
Saturday last He was informed by his son at Chas.
Amaron
< no role > aged about twelve Years, that there was
a Child, or the Picture of a Child in the Necessary
House, under the Streetthat Deponent went
immediately to [..] examine into it, and
saw a Child lying naked just above the Surface
of the Soil-that Dept. informed Mr. Smirnof,
Chaplain to his Excellency, and the Infant was
afterwards got up out of the Necessary by One
Thomas Winter< no role > -appeared to have been dead about
a Day or there abouts, but without any Marks of
Violenceand appeared to be three or four Days
oldthat there is a Communication from the Street
to the sd Necessary House by a Gate to the Area
and which Gate is generallytakedunlocked or
open from about eight oClock in the Morning till four
oClock in the afternoon

Solomon Amaron< no role >




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