Middlesex Sessions:
Sessions Papers - Justices' Working Documents
SM | PS

January 1754

About this document type

Currently Held: London Metropolitan Archives

LL ref: LMSMPS504240030

Image 30 of 51


Westmr.


The Information of John Jones< no role > of St Margaret Westminster
Gentleman touching the Death of a Female Bastard Child taken
and acknowledged this Eighteenth day of January 1754

Who saith that on the Sixteenth Instant about Three Clock in the
Morning this Informant having Occasion to pise and go down stairs
at the bottomHeof the stairs He saw Blood which he hard from
thence to the back Kitchen door which is about Twelve yards Instand
from of the bottom of the said stairs That then He this Informant
Suspicious of some Ill went Immediately to the outer Gates of the
House and found them Secure That from thence this Informant
went into the Necessary a Bog house near the Said Gates and found
Blood upon the seat and Floor thereof This Informant then lit
down a handle and Lanthorn down the Necessary and found there was a [..]
Child with It's head in Downwards in the Soill Naked and Dead [..]
this Informant then raised the Floor and (with Assistance) got up
the said Child which said Child was a Female

John Jones< no role >

Taken on Oath
before me R: Jackson
Coroner




View as XML