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

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No. 9


Alexander Ross< no role > No. 31 of Park Street
Grosvener Square in the County of
Middlesex a Watchman belonging to
the said Parish of Saint George Hanover
Square being sworn saith that on
Monday Night last boul the House
of twelve o' Clock as this Deponent
was in his watch Box the Corner of
South Street in Park Lane he heard the
Voice of a Woman at some distance [..]
Hyde Park which appeared to deponent
to be towards the upper Park Wale
That deponent thought he [..]
distingushed the Voice cry out [..] dear''
and after going out of his Box heard
the same words attend from the said
Voice but hearing no more of it he
did not much any enquery wite the
Cause

The Mark of
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Alexander Ross< no role >

No 10


Thomas Duke< no role > No. 25 Duke Street
Grosvenor Square on the County of Middlesex
Carpenter being Sworn [..] that on
Tuesday last about the House of five o' Clock
on the Morning as Deponent was going past
the Bason on Hyde Park to Work at Brampton
he observed a Man draging the said Bason
and upon deponent enquiring the because the
sayd there was a Bonnet found the inside of
the Paul upon the edge of the Bason but out
of the Water and be was dragans to find the
Owner of dor words to that Effect, That
the Drag soon afterwards laid held [..] they
on the Water which proved to be the deceased
That deponent assested on taking her out
of the Water when she appeared quite Dead
and Deponent wanted until a shall was
brought in which he assicted to pull the
deceased
Tho Duke




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