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

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Image 623 of 76624th October 1789


John Barker< no role > Cartman to Thomas Cranage< no role >
of Hangerford Market Coal Merchant on
his Oath saith That this Afternoon Dept.
drove a Cart leaded with Fifteen Jacks
of Coals drawn by three Horses from
Hungerford Market , that in going
along either in Hemings Row or Green
Street Dept. saw John Bate< no role > the Deced
lying upon the Sacks in the Cart Says
that when he was turning out [..]
Square into Leicester Shire a [..]
called out stop, and Dept. stopped [..]
immediately when he saw the Deced [..]
on the Ground from his Nose and [..]
and [..] not able to speak or move [..]
and Dept. pare [..] ved no Life in the Deced
but cannot say whether the Wheel passed
over the Deced's Head Says that the Deced
had been in Liquor all she day and
believes that his Fall was merely
Accidental Says that he was on the Near
side of the Horses when the Accident
happened Says that the Cart Horses &
Coals are the Property of Mr. Cranage.

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

John Baker< no role >
[mark]
his Mark.




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