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

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Thomas Jones< no role > at the Crooked Billet in
Wych Street on his Oath saith That Philip Brown< no role >
the Deced was Quartered there, Says that
Yesterday about a Quarter before Nine
o'Clock, he heard the Report of a Gun, as
he thought, but could not tell where it was
nor did he go to see Says that between
Ten and Eleven o'Clock a Corporal came
to enquire for Deced and being informed
that he hadnotbeen seen down [..] & go up [..] Desired the
Maid Servant to go to call the Deced, which
She did and returned immediately very
much frightened, and after some time said
that the Deced was upon the Floor and the
believed dead, upon which the Corporal
went up with Dept. to the Deced, who lay
on the Floor upon his Back with a Wound
in his Bally made with a Musket Ball
Says that the Muskat and the Iron Rod
out of it, were upon the Floor, and Dept.
believes that the Deced gave himself
the Wound above mentioned which was
the cause of his Death. Says that the Deced
has been Melancholy and Row Spirited for
four or five days before his Death and
appeared different from what he used to be

Thomas Jones< no role >

Joseph Moore< no role > a Corporal in Colonel Farre's
Company [..] in the fold Stream Regiment of
Guards on his Oath saith, That Philip Brown< no role >
the Deced was a Soldier in the same Regiment
and Dept. took him to the Hospital last Week
the Deced being Sulky, and said he was not
well

Well and said that he would be Da [..] d
if Dept. shod. to [..] e him again to the Hospital
for Seven Years, Says that he does
not know that he saw the Deced alive
afterwards.

Joseph Moore< no role >

Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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