City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st January 1790 - 31st December 1790

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Image 342 of 77810th May 1790


City & Liberty of
Westmr . in the County
of Middlesex


Informations taken this Twelfth day
of May 1790 at the Parish of St. Martin
in the Fields within the Liberty of
Westmr . in the County of Midsex upon
an Inquisition touching the death
of Susanna Campion< no role > lying dead in
the said Parish Liberty & County.

Jane< no role > the Wife of Abraham Knight< no role > a Lodger to
John Bott< no role > in Mercer Street Long Acre in the Parish
of St. Martin in the Fields on her Oath saith
That Sarah Wright< no role > is a Lodger in the same House
on the Second Floor, and that Susanna Campion< no role > Mary Kempster< no role > the
Deced has lodged at times with Mr. Wright about six
Weeks, Says that the Deced used to go out
sometimes early in the Morn in as soon as
it was light, Says that Mrs. Wright went
out last Night about Nine o'Clock and locked
her Room Door leaving the Deced in the
Room alone. the Deced desiring her to
leave the Key with her to [..] Mrs.
Wright Answered that she had lost things
out of the Room and would not leave the
Key, Says that about three o'Clock this
Morning She heard the Deced walk about
the Room, saying some thing that Dept. did
not understand Says that thro a Hole
in the Door Dept. Saw the Deced at one of
the Windows in the Room, the Sash being
up, and soon Dept, heard a Man say that
the Woman was down, Says that a Man
brought the Deced up Stairs assisted by
this Depts. Husband, the Deced being dead
and bled from the lead, Says that, an
Apothecary was fetched who Examined the
Deced, & said that she was dead Says, that
she believes that the Deced was at times
Disordered in her Senses, and that there
was no Person in the Room with Deced when
Deed want out at the Window.

Jane Knight< no role > [mark] her Mark




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