City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Image 89 of 80113th February 1793


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Informations of Witness taken the
13th. day of Feby 1793 in the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square at the Dwelling house of
William Buck< no role > land the Sign of the Bell in
Upper Mount Street before Anthony Gell< no role >
Coroner for the said City and Liberty
touching the Death of John Elsworth< no role > then
and there lying dead, as follows, Vizt.

William Brown< no role > Servant to the Honble Mr.
Leveson Gower< no role > in Charles Street Berkley Square
No. 21. being sworn, saith that on Monday
Night the 11th. of Febry instant about believes
eight and nine o' Clock as he was coming
up the narrow part of the Street towards
Union Street he saw the deceased lying prostrated on
the Steps of a House there No. 26, and a
young man then supported him and there
Woman were rendering assistance to the draws [..]
by rubbing his Temples with some thing,
when this Deponent inquired and was told he
was in a Fit, whereupon this deponent
surt for a looking Glass and held it before
his Mouth, but could not by that means
discover that he breathed at all, he then
felt




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