City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1766 - 29th December 1766

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locked, Says that they called several times, and that
this Dept, afterwards fetched a Ladder which he reared
against the House, and put up the Sash of one of the window in Deced't
Room and went into it, upon which he there saw the
Deced hanging by a Cord which was fixed to and Iron
hook drove into the Ceiling of the Room (on the first Floor
and about the Deceds Neck, Says that the room Door was
Locked and Bolted, and the Key in the Lock on the inside
of the Door, Says that he opened the Door and thats ever
People some in, Says that he cut the Cord by which the
Deced was hanging, and Deced dropped down on the
Floor, Says the Mr. Collins bled the Deced in the Arm,
and that she bled freely, but Dept. believes that she was
then Dead, and that she hanged herself

Severally Sworn the Day Year
& Place abovementioned before me
Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner }

Joseph Wetter< no role >




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