Westminster

Informations of Witnesses taken this 4th. day of
August 1768 in the Parish of St. Margaret in the City of
Westminster in the County of Middlesex at the Dwelling
House of Mr. Thomas Cook< no role > the Sign of the Three Tuns in
the Broadway. Before Thomas Prickard< no role > Gentleman
Coroner for the City and Liberty of Westminster , touching the
Death of John Fraser< no role > in the said Parish then and
there lying Dead, as follow

Philip Harris< no role > a Serjt. of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
about half an hour after 3 in the Afternoon
on his Oath says That Yesterday as he and a Comrade of his were leaning
over the Rails of the Canal in St. James's Park next the Horse Guards
he saw the Deced in the Water and near the Shore that runs to the
Sluice that the deced Sunk into a Hole and the Deponent from his
knowledge of the Shore there apprehended the deced would naturally
be carried by the Current to the Wall of the Sluice, that he thereupon
immediately went there and watched his coming, and shipped and
used his last endeavour to save him, that he preceived his Legs and
pulled but on account of a large Stone lying on the Wall he could
not pull him out untill he had with great difficulty and some