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

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he was hanging by a Cord or String around
his Neck which String was fasted to the
Tester of the Bed whereupon [..] said Woman
who came from below Stairs cut the String
and the deceased fell upon the Bed, whereupon
two [..] Persons of the faculty were immediately
sent for and one of then open'd a Vein in his
left Arm from whence about a Ten [..]
full of blood and not more if and they
said that he was past all hopes of recovery
E Elmer

Jane Godsan< no role > of No. 16 Exeter Street being sworn
deponth that she met the deceased [..]
last Friday in the Street who told her he was
then very poorly and she never [..] himself
wards until the morning that he hanged
himself and that she was the Person that was
called up Stairs and cut the Cord with [..]
[..] a Knife at which met
he had his Cloaths on

The [..] Mark
of Jane Godsun< no role >

Lucy Standeven< no role > of No.16 Exeter Street
being Sworn deposit that she lived on the
name Floor into the deceased that on Saturday
morning but Ten little Girl went into the [..]
of the deced at the before 8 o' Clock and
returned and told this Deponent that the deced




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