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

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him and upon examinationBrotherhe found the deceased sitting
in the Box with his Chin resting upon the
lower Hatch and there appearnd to be
water running out of his Month and
to all appearance he seem'd quite dead
whereupon this Deponent sent [..] one Haythorn
a Brother Watchman and they removed
the deceased from there to the braun Arms
being the next adjoining house and then
this Deponent went home. This Deponent
further sayeth that he saw no Marks
of Violence on the Body of the deceased this
the deceased had for a long time [..]
sober on the morning of the said 13th nobr. but he cannot say how or by
what means the deceased came to his
death

Thomas Phillon< no role >

William Mornice< no role > of Great Mal [..] ro' street
Surgeon bring sworn sayith that [..]
the Watchman men crying six o'Clock in
the morning on Tuesday the 13th. Novr. he
was called up to go to the assistance of a
Watchman who was found [..] dying on
or nearly dead in a Watch Box near at hand
whereupon this Deponent immediately sent
a young Surgeon one of his Assitants
saying he would follow him directly
but before this Deponent got out of his [..]
house his assistant returned assuring
him that the deceased was dead and had
apparently been so nearly half an hour
That thisDeponentDeponent sayeth that
he afterwards examined the Body of the
deceased and found no external mark
of Violence upon it, but upon opening
it, the whole Chest was filled with
blood and Serum in Consequence of a
large Vessell bring ruptured going
from the heart which he believes to have
been the immediate Cause of his death
and this Deponent further sayeth that in
Consequence of the Enquiries he made respecting
the deceased he has found him to have been
a long while in a Foxin of ill health

Willm Morris< no role >




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