City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1794 - 27th December 1794

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was not possible to say whether or not
it was born alive to all appearence
it had been dead from seven to ten days
its private Parts were so destroyed by
Puterfaction and Maggots as not to be
able to discover before Dissection
whether it was Male of Female it had
a Tape ligid about it Neck, tight
enough to have strangled it, if it was
applied when alice

J Payne

Michael Jones< no role > the Keeper of Hyde
Park being sworn deporeth and
saith that between seven and eighth
o'Clock on Friday Evening last the 16th.
Instant)as he was coming upon the
Hill in Hyde Park called Buckburn
Hill in Woman informed him that a
Child lay dead on the Ground near
the Spring there, and when he came to
the place where [..] the Infant Child
lay he found five or Six Persons there,
whereupon he sent for a Sick into which
he put the said Infant Child and brought it
it himself to the Workhouse it Mount
Street Grosvenor Square and delivered it
to the Porter of the said Work house.

Michael Jones< no role >

The Verdict
That an Female Infant Child
was found dead in Hyde Park put
how and by what means it came to
its death or whether it was soon
alive or not doth not come to the
Knowledge of the Jurors.

John Bell< no role > Foreman

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