City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1774 - 20th December 1774

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Deced's Cloaths and on the Floor, Says that he
then felt the Deced who was quite Cold and
appeared to have been dead some hours, and
Dept. does believe that the Deced gave herself the
wound in her Throat which he believes to
have been the cause of her death Says that he
found the Doors all fastened, and also the Windows,
with the Bells in them, excepting a Window
in the Back room on the Ground Floor where
he found the Sash down but the Shutters not
fastened, Says that he carefully examined the
Yard there and saw no signs or appearance of
any Person having gone out that way, Says that
he this day saw a large Carving Knife bloody his Property
taken from under the Deced on the Floor when
she was moved before the Coroner and Jury, with
which he believes the Deced gave herself the wound
Says that he heard no Noise or Disturbance in his
House on Tuesday Night after he went to Bed nor
did he hear his Dog Bark which lay in the House
that Night Says that from the Deced's Conversation
Dept. has reason to believe that she was at times
Disordered in her Senses. Says that no Person
lay in Dept. House on Tuesday Night, but Mrs. Meller
this Dept. and the Deced.

Charles Cameron< no role > This name instance is in set 2118.

Joseph Ferdinando Gillis< no role > of Grosvenor Street
Surgeon in his Oath saith, That he this day Examined
the Body of Mary Tapperell< no role > the Deced, [..] and found a
Wound on the forepart of the Neckabout one upwards
of one Inch in length which had divided the Wind pipe
and wounded the right Caroted Astory, which wound
Dept. beleives to have been the came of her Death, Says
that

he opened the Body Examined the Womb. and found
it in an unimpraguated State.

Gillis

Robert Davidson< no role > of Green Street in the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square Baker next Door to Mr Cameron on this Oath saith, That
yesterday Morning about a Quarter before nine o' Clock
Mr. Cameron came into Depts. Shop and asked if Dept.
had heard a Noise in his (Mr. Cameron's) House the last Night,
that somebody had Murdered his Maid or that she had
Murdered herself, and desired Dept. to go with him down
Stairs, Says that he went with Mr. Cameron and in
Mr. Cameron's Hitchin saw the Deced lying on the
Floor with a Wound in her Throat which then Bled
and much Blood upon the Deced's Cloaths and on
the Floor, Says that he did not touch the Deced but
believes that she was dead. And Dept. says that he
heard no Noise in Mr. Cameron's House on Tuesday's
Night last.

Robt Davidson< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day year
& Place abovementioned before me}

Tho Prickard< no role > Coroner




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