City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1771 - 26th December 1771

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Image 71 of 6488th February 1771


him a little way down Dartmouth Row, when Dept.
expressed a desire to live happy with Deced, but Deced said
that nothing could make her happy, Says that he left the
Deced there, went home to his Maker's House and did
not see the Deced afterwards alive. And this Dept, says
that from the Behaviour of the Deced he believes that she
was at times Disordered in her Senses

John Pinnock< no role >

Charles Martin< no role > one of the Keepers of St. James's [..]
Cark, at the Lodge near the End of Princes Court on his
Oath saith,That he was drinking last Night about half
an hour after Nine o' Clock at the Sign of the Prince & Head
in Long Ditch when his Servant called him out [..]
[..] to Captain Gordon who informed him in Princes Court that a Woman
was hanging at the bottom of the Steps there Says that he then
saw the Deced hanging by a Cord which was fixed to the
Iron Rails and around her Neck, Says that they fetched
Mr. Moore a Surgeon who bled the Deced in the Arm
and out the Cord (as Dept. believes) says that the Deced
bled but little, and Mr. Mow said that the Deced was dead.

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

Chas. Martin< no role >




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