City & Liberty
of
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Informations of Witnesses taken this 22d day
of April 1797 in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields at the Dwelling house of John
Callington< no role > the Sign of St. Lukes Head in Mercer Street
Long Acre before Anthony Gell< no role > his Majesty's
Coroner for the said City and Liberty touching the
Death ofthen and there
lying dead as follow to wit

Richard Newman< no role > Carpenter No. 2 White Lion Street
Seven Dials being sworn deposeth that, about half
an hour after ten o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon
this Deponent came into the Tap Room belonging to the
above Public house called St. Lukes Head in order to
do a Job there where he found the deceased who shook
him by the hand and asked him how he did and treated
this Deponent with a Pint of Beer at which
him the deceased appeared to be quite sober and
be drank a little of the Beer and told this Deponent
that he was the Youngest of all his [..] Brothers
and who took no care of his Father such that he had always taken Care that his Father
should never want any thing and was sure that God
would never let him want,that all this Fathers
Children said Brothers were gone (that is dead) and then added
and I am going and he immediately fell back
upon the Table and from thence on the Floor and
instantly died

Richd. Newman< no role >

The Verdict Sudden death by the Visitation
of God William Coltman< no role >
Foreman