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

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the Hour of Twelve o' Clock, That this
Deponent and the deceased parted very
amicably and at such parting the deceased
seemed in good spirts and this deponent
promed to call on her at her Lodgings
the next day, That the reason the deceased
gave for going up Brook Street Home was
to evade meeting with George Copestick< no role >
the Life Guardsman belonging to the
second Regiment of Guards of whom the
Deceased supposed this Deponent was
Jealous as he had a little up braided her
few going her Company [..] at the same time to both
not with standing wall way expressed
a prefenence and great Regard for this
deponent, That Deponent was that
Night dressed on his White Stable Jacket Black
Cass and white Trowsers [mark]
The Mark of
Thomas Wild< no role >

Verdict That the deceased was the
cause of her own Death by drowning
herself [..] and at that time she was Lunatic
herself a Piece of Hyde park , commonly called
the Bason , & at that time was lunatic.




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