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

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an undertaker in Mount street who sent some
of his Men who came and took her from thence
to his House. This Deponent found upon
the Serpentine River Head when she was
supposed to have gone into the Water a small
Key of a Box and a Letter directed To
John Fistner< no role > . First Regiment of Life Guards
No. 9 Blandford Mews Blandford Street
Manchester Square

The Mark
of Wm. [mark] Jones< no role >

John Fisher< no role > of the first Regiment of Life
Guards being sworn deposeth that he has
known the deceased about six or 8 Months
that she used frequently to came to him in
Blandford Mews that the but time he
saw her was at the Stables in [..] Street on
Sunday Evening last when she left
about 10 o'Clock and about 8 o'Clock on
Monday morning he heard she was drowned
in the Serpentine River this Deponent
says he has of late thought her deranged in
her mind

The Mark
[mark]
of John Fisher< no role >

The Verdict
This Harriot Beard< no role > was
deranged in her mind and in a fit of Lunacy
drowned herself in the Serpentine River in
Hyde Park on Monday morning the 14th.
of September 1795.

Benjm. Robt Uphill< no role >




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