City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1784 - 29th December 1784

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Image 228 of 70620th April 1784


City & Liberty
of Westmr . in the
County of Midsex }


Informations taken this Twentieth
day of April 1784 at the Parish of
St. Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the Fields within the
upon of Westmr. in the County of Midsex
of Jane Campbell< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

Juliet Cook< no role > Daughter to Jane Campbell< no role > the Deced
Lodgers at Mr. Richard Milsom< no role > in St. Martins
Lane in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields on her Oath saith That the Deced
had been Afflicted with a bad Lad for about
nine Years, That Yesterday Morning
a little before Ten oClock, Dept. went out
on Business leaving the Deced alone in
her Room, Says that a little after One of
the Clock the same day Dept. returned, found
the Room Door Locked and the Key put under
the Door, Says that the Unlocked the Door
and pushed it open & found the Deced sitting
in a Chair behind the Door with her Head
backwards, Says that she took hold of
her Mother and found her dead, upon which
Dept.Screamedcalled out, and several of the Lodgers
come in, Says that the Deced always were
a black Ribband about her Neck, and then
had it on, Says that she observed no Marks
of violence upon the Deced, nor does she suspect
that she was injured by any Person, but thinks
that she might have been Strangled, by the
Ribband about her Neck, in and Reaching which
she was Subject to.

Julit Cook< no role >




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