City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
CW | IC

2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

About this document type

Currently Held: Westminster Abbey Muniment Room

LL ref: WACWIC652350169

Image 169 of 637


be found the Door of the room adjourning to the room
where he had kept, lock'd and upon looking thro
the Key hole he saw Blood upon the Floor
and this Deponent hearing her Son knocking at
the Door, she was apprehension of what had
happens and desired Mr. Carns and Mr. Harly
(who were below) to go up, which they did and
lifted the Door off the Hinges and found that
the deceased had put an End to his Existence

E Flint

John Carns< no role > of Charlton Street No.6 St. Mary lebone
being sworn deporeth that yesterday morning believes
9 and 10 o'Clock he was at Mrs. Charlton the Sign of
the Kings Arms in Poland Street confirm [..] the
above and further depoteth that whom he and
Mr. Hardy entered the room they saw [..]
much blood on the Floor and the deceased lying
across the Corner of the Bed with his Face down
wards whereupon they turned him upon his Back
and percieved that he had cut his Throat very
much and of the length of 3 Inches at the least and

was quite dead and Razor by on the Floor
which was bloody and Mr. Hardy picked it
up and laid it on a Table upon which was
a looking Glass near the Foot of the Bed
and their Deponent is of opinion that the
deceased cut his own throat with that Razer

John Cairns< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.

The Verdict that Thos. Hackett< no role > was deranged
in his mind and in a low Melancholly fit
of Lunacy cut his own Throat with a Razer
on Sunday Monday morning the 8th. March 1795

W: Thompson




View as XML