City & Liberty
of
Westminster
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Informations of Witnesses taken this
27th. day of April 1795 in the Parish of St.
Martin in the Fields
at the House of
John Cuttle< no role >
the Sign of the Nags Head
in Orange Court Leycester Fields
in the sd.
City and Liberty before
Anthony Gell< no role >
his Majestys Covent for the touching the Death of
a Man Name unknown
now by say
then and there lying dead
as follow
to Wit
Joseph Hame< no role >
of [..] Long Acre
Chymist
being sworn
deposeth thatatbetween 12 & 1 o'Clock at Noon on Saturday
last on returning have he saw a Crowed of People at
his own Shop Door and likewise the deceased lying
on the Grod. with his head against the side of the Shop
he and was informed by the People that the deceased had
just fallen down in a fit and that some medicine had
been offered to him he could not swallow any thing
and upon this Deponents to examining him in a medical
Manner her found he was quite dead, however he
open'd a vien in his Right Arm but very little blood
issued forth, and from Information he has received and
Circumstances he is inclined to believe that he had [..]
burst a Blood Vessel which was the cause of his
Death
The Verdict
That the deceased died
by the bursting of a Blood Vessel
Jn. Hume< no role >
Wm Mumford< no role >
foreman