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

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City & Liberty of Westminster in
the County of Middlesex


Informations of Witnesses taken
this 12th. Oct 1795 at the House
of Daniel Greenaway< no role > the Sign of the George in George Court Adel [..]
Parish of St. Martin in the Fields on view of the Body of
Thomas Gordon< no role > then & there lying dead .

Margaret Pettman< no role > savt to Mr. Morison
being Sworn depose & saith that the Deced in lived [..] Brown
Wme Much abt. 6 Month but past that Yesterday he & his Bror
who also lives with [..] Brown went to dine into some Friends at
Wapping the Dept where 10 o' Clock & saw nothing of the
Deced last hight the row this Morning abt. ¼ before or of the
Clock being the first person where was up & went down Stairs & there
sair the Deced lying on the Stairs which leads to the passage
she observed much Blood about the Deced whereupon she went
immediately & called thereon [..] to Mr. Brown who
got up immediately & went to his Deced. They found him quite
dead & [..] saith that the Deced frequently has
come into the House with same Manner [..] who must
have done last night she does not know when he come
home then Dept. has never seen [..] in liquor but the [..]
no doubt but that his Le [..] eathitwas quite accidental & she
is confident that no person was up in this House at the
time the Deced came home Margat Pettman< no role >
James Gordon< no role > Bror to Deced
being Sworn & with that Lect his Bror Dined in the some Friends on
Bomsard the Charlotte from Aberdeen yesterday at Wapping his sine that his [..]
was not in Liquor horn abt. 8 o'Clock & both came to his
Lodging between 10 & 11 o'Clock they had a porter & some
Bread & the Cheese & the Deced went between 11 & 12 of the o'Clock once be heard no more
of him [..] further he knownth not.

Verdict Jas. Gordon< no role >

Accidental Death
Bone




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