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

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Image 375 of 80126th June 1793


City & Liberty
of
Westmr.}


Information of Witness taken the 26th. day
of June 1793 in the Parish of St. Margaret
Westmr. at the House of Humphry Chadwick< no role >
the sign of the Horse Shoe in Little George
Street before Anthy Gell< no role > Coroner for the
said City and Liberty aforesaid touching
the death of Joseph Orten< no role > then and there
lying dead, as fellow,

C [..] a Corporal in 1st. [..] of Two Guard but
Mary< no role > the Wife of Joseph Orten< no role > re [..] tered to a Private 11 Weeks [..] deceased
being sworn saith that she her observed
him to be for a Week or upwards last
past vey low and melancholly and
that he started at Nights in his Sleep
and same very much disturbed in his
mind Oath in sleeping and when [..]
but he never told her what was the
cause that they lined very happy together
but for a week last part she perclined
he was not in much in his Right
mind as she could have wished.
That Yesterday Morng the 25th. she went out
carly (abot. 5) to washing and when she returned
at 8 to breakfast she found him in bed which
surprized her much and he [..] appeared to her [..]
to be very much disturbed in his mind and look'd
very pale and me lane [..] but said he
would get up and look out for some work
whereupon




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