City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1786 - 23rd December 1786

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past Ten o Clock Dept. carried some hot
water into Deced's Parlour, when Deced
thanked her, said he would make her
amends and that he should not want
any thing more that Night, and Dept.
did not [..] see him afterwards alive
Says that this Morning about half
after Seven o' Clock Dept. unlocked the
Deced's Room Door (the Key being on the
outside of the Door in the Lack ) in order
to make the Deced's Fire, which he had
desired Dept. to do early, as he was to
go to Bow Street this Morning for a
Hearing, Says that on going into Deced's
Room She saw him up right (Standing as
she thought) between the Fire Place and
the Window, and said Good Morning to you
but having no Answer, She was frightened
and suspected that the Deced was Hanged
Says that she immediately called Mr. Gregory
and others who came with Dept. to the Deced
when they found that the Deced was
hanged by a Cord fastened to Brass [..]
and Gimbet & on the Wainscots and about
his Neck. Says that Mr. Fenwick the
Governor likewise came there, and
Dept. says that the Decedwas Coleappeared
to be dead. And Dept. believes that he
killed himself Says that the Deced last
Night when she left Deced in the Room
alone appeared to be much troubled in
his Mind and uneasy, That she has seen
the Deced so several times before, and
that he used to Walk about the Room and
Cry often, And this Dept. says that when
the Deced was Hanging she with a Garter
and fastened to the waist Hand of his
Breeches, and Says that the Deced's
Bed was not trimbled,

Alice Barnes< no role >
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her Mark

Alexander Fenwick< no role > Governor of
Tothill Fields Bridewell on his Oath
saith That Charles Price< no role > the Deced was
brought to Tothill Fields Bridewell
some time on Saturday Night the fourteenth
Instant, upon a Suspicion of a Forgery
upon the Bank, Says that the Deced
slept in the Parlour adjoyning to Dept.
Kitchin, Says that on Monday Night last
Dept. received an Order from St. Sampson
Wright
< no role > to bring Deced to Bow Street on
Wednesday Morning (being this Morning)
of which he was informed that Night, and
last Night about Eleven o' Clock when Dept
came home, the Deced came into Dept. Room
and desired him to go this Morning to
Bow Street with Deced, and Dept. promised
to go when Deced desired him to intercede
withtheMagistrates to suffer him to come
back there to see his Wife and Children
in case he should be fully Committed
Says that the Deced left Dept. a little
before Twelve o' Clock last Night and week
into his own Room, Says that about a
Quarter after Twelve o' Clock Dept. was going
to Bed and through a Window saw the
Deced with his Coat off Walking about
his own Room, Says that he saw nothing
more of the Deced until he was called
this Morning a little before Eight o' Clock
by his Mouth (Servant who informed him
that the Gentleman had Hanged himself
upon which Dept. went to Deced who was
Hanging in his Room by Cord which
was fastened to two Brass Skrews and
two Ginlets in the Wainscot and about
Deceds Neck, Says that by the order
of




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