City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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31st January 1782 - 22nd December 1782

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Image 332 of 51023rd August 1782


Verdict of the Jury touching the Death of Thos. Holman< no role >
That the said Thomas Holman< no role > on the 21st, day of August 1782
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatic and Distracted at the Parish of St. Paul Covent
Garden in the Liberty of Westminster in the County of Middlesex
a quantity of Arsenic being a deadly Person into a
certain quantity of Liquor did then and there put and
mix and the said Arsenic to put and [..] as aforesaid
he the said Thomas Holman< no role > not being of Sound Mind
Memory and Understanding but Lunatic and distracted as
aforesaid did then and there take drink and Swallow
down by means whereof he the Said Thomas Holman< no role > then
and then became sick and distempered in his Body and of
the Person aforesaid and of the Sickness and Distemper
thereby occasioned did then and there instantly Due: And
so the Jurony on then Oath do say that the said Thomas Holman< no role >
not being of Sound Mind Memory and Understanding but
Lunatick and Distracted in Manner and by the means
aforesaid did poison and Kill himself Witness our Hands
this 23d. day of August 1782. Joseph Gage< no role >

Thos. Jeremy< no role >
Saml. Ballow< no role >
Willm. Hyde< no role >
Joh. Moore< no role >
John Strock< no role > .

Rd. Morris< no role >
Allexander Dover< no role >
Peter. Vincent< no role >

Joseph Gage< no role >
William Manning< no role >
Joseph Wilkins< no role >
Joshua Perkins< no role >




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