City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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4th January 1796 - 28th December 1796

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sheappeared towas quite cold stiff and
without and [..] of life.

Wm Edwards< no role >

Jane Hughes< no role > a Lodger in the same [..]
being sworn deposeth that she lodged in
the Room underneath that of the deceased
that she heard the deceased with across
her in Room between 6 & 7 and aburst
& she thought the him her take the Key
out of her Room door and never heard
her move about afterwards

The [mark] Mark
of Jane Hughes< no role >

Eliz. Brown< no role > another Lodger in the sd.
house and slept in the said Room during
the time she was in the Workhouse and
likewise used to sleep with the deced
before she went into the Workhouse ,
that this Deponent had both the Keys of
the Room door but had put one in a Box in the Room and was at a Neighbours
house when the deceased none to go into
the room and Mr. Edwards little Become for
one of the Keys which this Deponent sent
and

and it was given to the deceased and when this
Deponent came house she went up Stairs
and knocked at the Door and called the deced
by her Name several different times but she never
answer'd, that about 11 at Night this Depont.
and Mr. Willims another Lodger went up Stairs
and finding the Door shut and no one known
Mrs. Williams tried to unlock the door with
a Key of her own door which unlocked it
and upon opening the door they saw the
deceased hanging by the Neck in the middle
of the Room and being greatly terrified they
screamed out and run down there and infant
the rest of the Lodgers with what they saw
and non afterwards Mr. Edwards the Land-
lord and a Watchman come and cut her
down. that this Deponent thinks she
was not of late in her right Mind as
she rathed very strangely and in ch [..]
ly.

The [mark] Mark
of Eliz Brown< no role >

The Verdict
Lunacy and hanged himself

[..] Musgrave




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