City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 29th December 1789

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Image 195 of 7662nd April 1789


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


Informations to taken this Third day
of April 1789 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty
of Westmr . in the County of Midsex upon
an Inquisition touching the death of
Humphrey Cooper< no role > lying dead in the said
Parish Liberty and County.

John Thampson< no role > Coachman to Colonel Jones [..]
Lake
< no role > Esqr. on his Oath saith That on Wednesday
last between five and six o'Clock in the Afternoon
of the first Instant Dept. was in Lambourn
Mews in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
washing his Carriage That Humphery Cooper< no role >
the Deced who was Halper to this Dept. was
in one of the Stables in that Mews with
the Horses but Dept. cannot say what Deced
was about Says that Deced came out of
the Stable saying to this Dept. I wish you
would get some body to Dress the Horse for
I could not do it, That he was with some
straw whi [..] ping the Harris Head, That the
Horse catched his Head out of the Deced's
Hand, turned about and kicked him
between his Naval and the Gwin on the
right side of his Bally, Says that the Deced
was in great pain but walked up into Depts.
Room that Mr. Webb the Apoethecary who
bled the Deced, and that Mr. Phillips a Sworn
was afterwards fetched and attended the Deced
three times, and said that he had no hopes
of the Deced living and Deced died Yesterday
between two and three at his Lodging in
Chapel Street in the same Parish Says
that the Deced was well before he reced
the hurt and Dept. believes that the Deced
died in consequence of the Bruise he
reced on his Belly in the Stable as above
mentioned, And Dept. Says that he Dressed
the Horse several times and found him
very Quiet, and no way vicious Says
that




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