City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1795 - 28th December 1795

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land [..] & went down into the [..] he there saw the
Decedthe appeared to him to be nearly dead & could
not speak & was guite cold abt. ½ part 10 o'Clock a
Chair was brot. & she was taken to the Watchouse
this Dept [..] a Cut over her eyehe believesshe
was [..] when taken away. but she died about
3 o'Clock the next Morng.

John Crutchfield< no role >

Mr Moris Surgeon being sworn saith, that he
Examined the Deced but found no External Mark of
violence which he can suppose to be the Cause
of her Deathfrom her Appearance this Dept [..]
She must have been much in Liquor this Dept
opened the Body of the Deced& from his
observation he is inclined to think that she
died from an Excess of Drink & not from the
blow which She had reced overontothe eye
from her Lungs she died certainly from Suffocate
She [..] was very large which in generally
the Effect of Drinkg.

Willm. Morris< no role >

Verdict
That he Deced died fromtheExcess
of Drinking on Friday Morng the
21st. Augst. 1795.

James Lewis< no role >




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