City & Liberty
of
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Informations of Witnesses taken this
23d day of February 1795 in the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square at the House of Mr. Carpenant the Sign of the
Coach and Horses in Mount Street before
Athy Gell< no role > his Majesty's Coroner for the
said City and Liberty touching the death
of Joseph Jeffries< no role > then and there lying
dead as follow

Sarah Turner< no role > night Nurse in the Kings Ward in the
Workhouse in Mount Street Grosvener Square being
sworn deposeth that on a Wednesday Evening last
the deceased was brought into the work house
and put into the Kings Ward that about one
o'Clock in the afternoon of Saturday last one
William White< no role > was likewise brought as a patient
into the said Ward and was reported to be a mad
man but believed very quit all the Evening
and at 9 o'Clock this Deponent gave him a
Powder at which time he was in Bed and very
serial and quiet and offended no one that a
little before 6 the next morning (Sunday the 22d.
Instant) he got up and dressed himself and
set down by on the Bed Side close by the deceased
and Began talking to him in a very wild maner
seemingly very sensible and when the Clock struck
six this Deponent gave the said Willm. white< no role >
another