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

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told her Master what had happend
This Deponent further sayeth that there was
no our in the room or upon the Loads with
the deceased when the Accident happend and
that she heard her singing just before she
fell and she verily believes that she fell
accidentally from the Loads into the Yard.

The [mark] Mark
of Susannaa Smith

John Chamber< no role > a Lodger in the same house
being sworn saith that he had been out
and just came in when the Accident had
happened and he went into the Yard and
turned the deceased upon her Back and
whiped the Blood from off her Face when
he percieved her Forehead and Skull
very much Fratured, and had one convul
-sive motion but afterwards were no Signs
of Life that a [..] Surgeon opened a
Vein in her right Arm but no blood
issued

issued forth and he said it was of no
use to try other means as the was
a dead woman.

The [mark] Mark
of John Chambers< no role >

The Verdict That May Hefford< no role > came
to her Death accidentally by falling
from the Leads into the Yard

Henry Wells< no role > foreman




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