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

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Image 229 of 80125th April 1793


to whom this deponent delivered the Corpse
That this Deponent doth not know the deceased
not did he perceive any marks of Violence on his
body

Michael Jones< no role >

Thos. Storer< no role > of Mount Street Undertaker being sworn
Saith that from a Letter in th Pocket of the deced
he found that the deceased had been a Journeyman Wine
Cooper and had worked with Messrs. Jos James< no role > &
Tho. Were at British Wine Manufactory Finsbury
Place London nearly 17 Years. That a few
Months ago [..] a Bror. of his died and left him
thirty Pounds that he expected to have had
much more and this disappointmentandhas lined a very unsettled life
and took to drinkingand haswhich together with
other Circumstances so affected his Brain that he
was [..] renderd totally unfit to do any
business whereupon Messrs. James & Co were under
the necessity of discharging him and since that
hehaswas [..] in a State of Lunacy and for three
Weeks last past no body kneer what was
become of him

Tho Storer< no role >

The Verdict That the deceased was a Lunatic
and drowned himself in the Serpentine River
Hyde Park in the Parish of St. George Hanover
Square

Tho. Rose< no role >
Foreman




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