City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1768 - 31st December 1768

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Considerable time removed the said Stone, that afterwards they
pulled the deceased out with case, and he appeared to this
Deponent to be quite Dead.

Phill Harris< no role > Serjt

John Orange< no role > a Soldier of the 1st Battallion of the 2d. Regiment
of Foot Guards that hearing the Deced was Drowned he immediately
went and assisted in removing the Stones and in helping him out, and
afterwards carried and laid him on the Grass, that he appeared
to him to be quite Dead, that a Surgeon or two come to the
Dead with an Intent to Bleed him but this Deponent did not
Stay to see it performed.

John Orange< no role >

John MacDonald< no role > aged 9 Years says that he and the Deced
went into the Conal that the deced endeavored to Swim on his
Back, that he got further in the Water then he, that he saw
him Sink into a Hole, that he then went out of the Water, says
that no Boy or other Person was near the deced when he Sunk.




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