City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1778 - 31st December 1778

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Image 329 of 5348th August 1778


Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of Jane Moore< no role >

That the said Jane Moore< no role > on the 7th. Day of August 1778, not
being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and
Distracted, one end of a certain Cord about the Bed Past Head in
a Room three pain of Stairs backwards in the House of Mr.
Rowndes in the Almoney in the Parish of St. Margaret Westmr
did fix and faster and on the other and thereof Neck was
Suspended, and by Means thereof did then and there Hang
Suffocate and Strangle herself, of which said Hanging
Suffocation and Strangling she the said Jane Moone< no role > then
and there instantly Died, And so the Jurors on their Oath
say that the said Jane Moore< no role > not being of sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and Distracted in
Manner and by the Means aforesaid did kill herself. In
Witness whereof the [..] Foreman on behalf of himself and
the rest of the Jurors has hereunto set his Hand this 8th.
day of August 1778.

The Mark of
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Oswald Edwards< no role > . Foreman




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