City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 232 of 79220th April 1797


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Informations of Witnesses severally taken
and acknowledged on the behalf of an
Sovereign Lord the King touching the death
of William Allen< no role > at the Dwelling house of
Mr. Tramfield the Sign at the
Triumphal Chariot in Piccadilly in the Parish
of Saint George Hanover Square on the
twentieth day of April in the thirty seventh
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the Third before Anthony Gell< no role > his
Majestys Coroner for the said City and Liberty
on an Inquisition then and there taken on View
of the Body of the said William Allen< no role >
then and there lying dead as follow, to wit.

Christopher Cridland< no role > of no. 7 Kemps Court Berwick Street
one of the Conductors of the Patrole belonging to
Bow Street being sworn deposeth that on Saturday
the twenty fifth day of March last this Deponent had
been to Acton Bottom and on his Return about twelve
o'Clock that Night within a Mile of Tyburn Turn
-pike he desired two of his Men then in Company with
him to go up the Lane round Crown Hill and meet
him at Tyburn Turnpike and this Deponent with two
other of his men went on the Road towards Tyburn
Turnpike and when they had proceeded about two
hundred Yards from the Lane they heard a great
Cry of Murder which appeared to them to be utterd
by divers Persons, upon which they immediately
stopped




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