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

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Image 531 of 78222nd August 1794


City & Liberty of Westmr. in
the County of Middlesex }


Informations of Witness taken
this 22d. day of August 1794 at
the House of William Lawrance< no role > Sign of the Monster
in Monster Row Parish of St. George Hanover
Square on view of the Body of James Scandling< no role >
Richard Exton< no role > Carter to Mr. Wm. Hall< no role > of heat Houses
Mill Bank being sworn deposeth and saith, that he was driving
him Mastr's teem to Market on ThursdayTuesdayMorning
the 21st. Imt. about three o'Clock [..] this
Dept. was them poping thro' a Lane near Mr
Lewis's from Mill Bank to Tothill Fields
& he saw the deced lying in the Road
about 20 yds before him. This Dept
went up to him but not being able to
make him speak he drove him team
or one Side of him & then stopped & went
again to the deced when he found that
he was suite dead this Dept. as far as
he can judge has no doubt but that he




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