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

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nearly three Inches long dividing the
Windpipe and the Carvted Arteries
and respects the wound was given soon after Birth

Willm. Morris< no role >

Henry Wheeler< no role > Foreman to Mr. Thos. Clarke< no role >
of Swallow Street [..] Nightman
being sworn deposeth that about Eleven
o' Clock on Friday Night last (the twentieth
Instant) as this Deponent and four other
of Mr. Clarke's Nightman were emptying
the Night Soil of out of the Princes [..] belong
ing to two Houses No. 25 and 26 [..] Tichbourn Street which communicate
and one of the Houses No 25 at that time empty
he [..] drewitsomething up [..] out of the Privy in
his Bucket andisemp [..] Bucket
into a Tubhe observed the Body of the
[..] but did not
then known what it was and the Tub
was emptied in the Night last which
was soon afterwards conveyed to Mr.
Carter's Field near Bays Water and [..]
it wasshot down sometime after it had beenit appeared to the Lodger
EdwdMr.Hedges his Fellow Servant told him
that

that he had discovered the body of [..] an
Infant Child which he the said Hedges
brought from the Field [..] at Bays Water
to Mr. Clarke's Stubbs about 6 o' Clock in the next Morning [..] and Mrs. Hedges
his Wife washed it clear and put it
into a small Box and carried it to [..]
[..] St. James's Watch house from whence
it was conveyed [..] St. James's
Infirmary. This Deponent observed that
the Child Throat had been cut but he
neither knows or has heard by whom

Henry Wheeler< no role >

The Verdict Wilfull Murder by a Person
[..] unknown

John Down< no role >
Foreman




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