City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

5th January 1792 - 31st December 1792

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652320735

Image 735 of 957


City & Liberty
of Westminster }


Informations of Witness taken this 7th. Novr.
1792 in the Parish of St. George Hanover Square
at the Dwelling house of Joseph Hill< no role > the
Sign of the Barley Mow before Anthony Gell< no role >
Coroner for the City and Liberty aforesaid
touching the death & William Hayes< no role >
a Watchman then and there lying dead , as
follows.

William Perkins< no role > Park Lane Sadler being
sworn Saith. That as he was going to work
[..] Tuesdayin Company with Philip Unwin< no role >
on Tuesday the 6th Just thro the Green
Park he there Saw the Deceased
in a certain Piece of water there called
the Queen's Bason in St. Martins Parish Whereupon the
Deponent Procured a fetch Ferk, &
with the Assistance of his Companion
brought the Deced out of the Water
who was at this time Perfectly dead
His Deponent found two Shillings and
four pence in the pockets of the
Deced & this Deponent for the saith
that there was a Silver Watch also
in his Pockets, & that the Deced her
also a pair of Silver Buckles in his Shoes
This Deponent further Saith that
no




View as XML