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

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Image 255 of 77923rd May 1796


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Informations of Witnesses severally taken
and acknowledged on the behalf of our Sove
-reign Lord the King touching the Death of an
Infant Female Child at the Dwelling house of
G Richards known by the Sign ofthe
Guy Earl of Warwick in Berwick Street
in the Parish of St. James in the Liberty
aforesaid on the twenty third day of May
in the thirty sixth Year of the Reign of our
Sovereign Lord King George the Third before
Anthony Gell< no role > his Majesty's Coroner for
the said City and Liberty on an Inquisition then
and there taken on View of the Body of
the said Infant Female Child then and
there lying dead as follow to Wit.

William Morris< no role > of Great Marlborough
Street Surgeon to St. James's [..] Infirmary being sworn deposeth
that he was this twenty third day of
May open'd and examined the Body of
the Infant Female Child and is of
Opinion that the said Female Infant Child
was born alive and from very appear
-ance has been murdered. [..] her Throat
having been work sufficiently apparently
to cause death the In [..] being nearly
three




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