City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

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Wm Jordan< no role > he 8 Ogle Court Queen Clemt St
lant on his oath saith, He was in Company with
Wm Bridges< no role > yesterday Morning Papers Tho Hyde park
abot 12 o'Clock When he had neats arrived to the
Head of the Serpentine River a Young Boy told then
a Woman appeared to be drowning in the said
River Where on this Deponent presuted not only
into the River but on he could not of himself
[..] the Deced to that WmIndexBridges also jumped
in to the sd. Water &to getherthey not the woman
the there at this time a Gent on Horseback came
up who gane hive Instructn has to hold the
Womanwhiletill he had hot Assistence
the Sevt Room hot ten or there [..] which whom &
Wm Bridges< no role > they conveyd the Deced to st George [..]
Hospital she appeard to have life when
brt out of the Water but by the time they
had not her to the Hospital she appeard
to be dead

Wm. Jordan< no role >




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