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

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on the Floor at the Foot of the Bed, they then
pro [..] red a Lodder and this Deponent went up
it and open'd the Window and got into the Room
and then he saw [..]
[..] same Blood on the Floor
and Shuts of the Red leat did not then see the
deceased as he was covered over with the
that and Blanke and the Room smelld
very strong of putrefaction and he saw the
Tut of the dressed from under the Cloaths
at the Tut of the Bed whereort this [..]
ment got out of the Windows immediately
and told the Gentleman and also his Aunt
what her had seen which [..] attacked her 18
much that she seream'd out directly and
claimed the Court and some Persons went
immediately to the Parish Bead [..] Humphris [..]
who came and sent for a Smith who piched
the look of the Door as the Key could not the
formed and then Mr. Humphress and this
Deponent went into the Room and Mr. Humphry
hund down the Blunket and they discover'd
the deceased lying across the Bed and appear'd
to be quite as black in the Face as the Chimas
Back

Blackand had on a Black Waistwood with
white Sleemes to it, but had no much Cloth [..]
for it hung by the Corner of the m [..] of the [..]
[..] shap there appeared to be Blood on the
Back of his Neck and the Sheets and under
neath the Bestred. That there was likewise
in the Window seat & wash hand [..]
about half full of [..] laid like Blood
and water, That there was a Leat [..]
[..] on the Floor near the [..]
which was locked, but the [..] portment [..]
but open lengthways and appeared to [..]
about there parts [..] full of Papers Etc. [..] and
a case [..] lyinger the Table in the room
bone Woman then came into the Room
and this Deponent went away and further
sayithport

The [mark] Mark
of [..] John Oakhurst< no role >




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