City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1770 - 26th December 1770

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Image 108 of 55719th February 1770


Joseph Ferdinando Gillio< no role > of Half Moon Street in the
Parish of St. George Hanover Square on his Oath
saith, That he has Examined the HeadBodyof a Man lying
in the workhouse and found on the left side ad superior
part of the Head a small lawrated wound in the Integuments
That the Pericranium was not divided or detach'd, Says
that after carefully dennding he examined the whole
external part of the Cranium, That there was not any
Fracture of Fissure, That he then removed the upper
portion of the Cranium in the usual manner That the
Menages, Brain, and Vessels, were found in their natural
State, Says that he is of opinion the wound on the Head
was not the cause of Deced's Death.

Gillie

Savage Bear< no role > of Mill Bank Gardener on his Oath
saith that on Thursday last (Febry. 15th.) his Apprentice
called him down Stairs and informed him that a Man
lay drowned by his Causeway before his House, Says that
he went down and saw a Man lying on the lower side
of his Causeway, by the side of the River Thames near the
water, Says that he was dressed in old Red Cloaths which
were wet, and having no Shirt on Says that the Body
was carried up to the Bank before Dept. House, by some
Laborers belonging to the Turpentine House Says that
her Ordered the Body to be removed [..] few says [..] Higher upon
the Bank, and that it was covered with by an old Matt, Says
that he observed no Marks of violence on the Deced,
and that he appeared to Dept. to have been Drowned.

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

Savage Bear< no role >




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