City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1779 - 29th December 1779

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Verdict,

That James Hackman< no role > Clerk feloniously wilfully
and of his Mater forthought a certain Pistol
charged with Gun powder and a leaden Bullet
did shoot off and discharge to and against the
Head of Martha Ray< no role > on the Seventh day of
April 1799 at the Parish of St. Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of Westmr. thereby giving to
her the said Martha Ray< no role > one mortal Wound in
and through her Head, of which she then and there
died.

Jer. Hawkes< no role >




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