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

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Mary Teresa Culmon< no role > House Keeper to the
Portingnese Ambassador on her Oath saith That on
Sunday last of little after after Eight o'Clock in the Evening
Dept. being in her own Room two pair of Stairs when
the Deced came to her for Cantles to put upthe lamp
says that the gave him some Candles and Deced went
down Stairs with them being them very much in Liquor
daysSays that in about a Quarter open hour Depedt.
hand the Deced light the Lamps at the top of the Stairs
Says that immediately after the heard the Deced go
down the Stairs, as the lamps there break to pieces
and Just at that him the Ambassador's Suretery
knocked hard at the Door That One of the Hookner
Joseph Patron< no role > Called the Deced saying that John
was dead upon which she ran down stairs and saw
reduced lying at the Porlton of the Stairs bleeding
from a Wound on the back part of his Head, that
he was Speechless and unable to move, and that
he died yesterday about Eleven o'Clock, Says
that there was no person upon the Stairs when
reced fell down as Dept. believes. and the his
fall was Accidental

Marie T Colmon< no role >

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




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