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

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Orange Court) that her Husband was in the Nag's
head yard and very ill the Coachman told this
Deponent he thought the deceased was in Liquor

The [mark] Mark
of Thos. Carpenter< no role >

Leigh Thomas< no role > Son in Law and Partner with
Mr Crinkshand Surgeon in Leicester Fields
being sworn deposeth that Yesterday morning
abot. 11 oClock he was sent for to the deceased &
found him in a State of insensibility which this
Deponent supposes proceeded from some Injury
done to his Head, whereupon he orderd his head to
be shaved and whilst the Person was shaving it
the deceased expired upon Examining his Head he
found no Injury there or any external [..] of violence anywhere else but upon turning him
over and [..] thatBodyBody he found that his back had been broken
between the last bone of the Neck and first of the
the Vertibre of the Back which was the Cause
of his death and he conclude that he must
have received this Injury in passing under the
Gateway not stooping low enough to Clear
the Top

Leigh Thomas< no role >

The Verdict
Accidental death by being
crushed in passing on a Coach Box under a
Gateway

Christian Hering< no role > Foreman




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