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

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the deceased has hanged himself at his Lodging
No. 5 in [..] Great Vine Street Piccadilly
James Phillips< no role >

Francis Ippersiel< no role > Watchmaker No. 7 Spur Street
Leicester Square being sworn corroborates the
foregoing Evidences and further sayeth
that from divers other Occurences and
Conversations with the deceased he is
convinced that he has at different times
of late been deranged in his Mind

F: Ippersiel

Robert Tharrow< no role > of the Vine in Great Vine Street
Piccadlilly being sworn deposeth that about
eleven o'Clock this morning he was informed
by Mrs. Legg his next Door Neighbour that
the Deceased was hanging at the Head of the
Garret Stairs and she gave this Deponent a
Knife which he took and went up Stairs
immediately and found the deceased hanging
at the Head of said Garret Stairs by a Cord
one

one End of which was fastned round his
Neck and the other End tied round a
Beam which ran across the Head of the
stairs near the Ceiling and he cut the
Cord and took him into the Back Garret
at which time there appeared no Signs
of Life and he immediately went after
a Surgeon who came soon after and
tried to open a Vein but no Blood issued
forth and other means were tried but
to no good purpose as he was quite dead

Robert Sparrcer< no role >

The Verdict That John De Bue< no role > was deranged
in his Mind and in a fit of Lunacy hanged
himself.

Wm Simm< no role > Foreman




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