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

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her Place on Tuesday the Twenty fourth
Instant appearing then to be in Spirits
that she has ever since been low spirited
and Dull, but never Assigned any cause
for it to Dept knowledge.

Mary Ann Mc Donald< no role >
[mark]
her Mark

Thomas Davies< no role > one of Watchmen of St.
Ann's Parish Westmr . on his Oath saith
That when he was calling the hour of Six
Yesterday Morning he found a Woman
lying in the Street before Mr. Marnham's
House, That he lifted up her Head and
observed her bleed very much from a
Wound in her Throat That she breathed
two or three times, and was carried
into Mr. Marnham's Shop where she
died in a very few Minutes. Says that
he heard no Noise or Disturbance in Mr.
Marnham's House Yesterday Morning .

Thomas Davies< no role >
[mark]
his Mark

Edward Hill< no role > , Servant to Mr. Marnham
on his Oath saith That Yesterday Morning
about six o'Clock Dept. heard some Person
in the Laundry at the top of Mr. Marnham's
House, and soon after heard some Person
go out at the Window, That in about two
Minutes he heard something fall very heavy
which shook Mr. Marnham's House, That he
immediately went down Stairs unto the
Street and saw the Deced lifted up by the
Watchman howing a Wound in her Throat
which

which bled very much, and that she died very
soon after Says that he found a Penknife
open and bloody upon the Penthouse before
Mr. Marnhouse's House with which he believes
the Deced gave herself the Wound in her
Throat which caused her Death, Says that
the Deced was very low Spirited and dull
during the short time she lived at Mr.
Marnham, and Dept. thinks that she was
Disordered in her Mind

Ed Hill< no role >

Thomas Collins< no role > at No. 11 in Castle Street
Leicester Fields Coachmaker on his Oath saith
that he has known the Deced about three
Years, andbolthinks that the Deced has
been uneasy and disturbed in her Mind at nine
for about then Months last past.

Thos Collins< no role >

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




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