City & Liberty
of Westmr
. in the
County of Midsex
}
Informations taken this Eleventh
day of August 1786
at the Parish of
St. Margaret within the Liberty of
Westmr
. in the County of Midsex upon
an Inquisition touching the death of
William Turner< no role >
lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.
Richard Sandback< no role >
of Lemon Court
Princes Street
in the Parish of St. Mary
Lambeth
Slater
on his Oath saith That he
was at work yesterday at Mr. Luckhursts
House in Arlington Street
Piccadilly
, where the
Deced likewise Worked Says that he was
making a Scaffold uponatthe Roof of the House in the Front in
order to Slated it That the Deced brought a
Board to Depont. for the Scaffold and gave it
to this Dept. that he went for another Board
into the Middle Gutter, where there was a
Sky light, Says that the Deced did not bring
the Second Board, but Dept. Soon after heard
a Carpenter who was at Work on the Third
Floor say that the Boy had fallen down, upon
which Dept. went down and found the Deced
had been taken up off the Stone Pavement
in the lower part of the House, and put into
a Chair in the Parlour Bleeding at the Mouth
was not able to move or to speak and appeard
to Dpt. to be then dead, Says that the Deced
was carried home in a Coach when a Surgeon
was fetched who said that both the Deceds Thighs
were broken, Says that there was no person
upon the Roof of the House or near the Deced
but his Dept when she fell through the Sky light and says that the Deced's fall, which
was the cause of his Death, was merely
Accidental
Richard Sandback< no role >
Sworn the Day Year & Place
above mentioned before me}
Thos. Prickard< no role >
Coroner