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of<lb></lb>
Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Informations of Witnesses taken<lb></lb>
this 19th day of July 1797 in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1862">Parish<lb></lb>
of St. George</rs>
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at the House<lb></lb>
of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1679-3">John Tramfield</rs>
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the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1863">Sign of the<lb></lb>
Trimphant Chariot</rs>
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in <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1864">Piccadilly</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1679-1">Anthony Gell</rs>
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his Majesty's<lb></lb>
<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ881">Coroner</rs>
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for the the said City and<lb></lb>
Liberty touching the Death of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1679-2">John Case</rs>
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then and there lying<lb></lb>
dead as follow, to Wit</p>
<p n="1680"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1680-1">Andrew Matthias</rs>
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House <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ882">Surgeon</rs>
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<lb></lb>
being sworn deposeth that abot. 3 o' Clock on Monday<lb></lb>
afternoon last (the 17th. Instant) the deceased was brot<lb></lb>
to <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1866">St. Georges Hospital</rs>
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and he was informed that he was<lb></lb>
informed that he was drowned in bathing in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1867">Serpentine<lb></lb>
River</rs>
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and at when he was brought<lb></lb>
to the said Hospital he appeared to be quite lifeless<lb></lb>
and there appeared to be no Marks of Violence on his<lb></lb>
Body, that notwithstanding every means was used<lb></lb>
to recover him but without the desired Effect</p>
<p n="1681"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1681-1">Andrew Matthias</rs>
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<p n="1682"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65237_n1682-1">William Cook</rs>
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a <rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65237_occ883">Private</rs>
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in the Coldstream Regiment<lb></lb>
of Foot Guards being sworn deposeth that on Monday<lb></lb>
Evening last about 8<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
o' Clock he went<lb></lb>
by <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1869">Westminster</rs>
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with the deceased to bath in the<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65237_geo1870">Serpentine River</rs>
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and that the deceased was attempting<lb></lb>
to swim in the said River and whilst he was swimming<lb></lb>
he cryed out two or three times Master Master help me or<lb></lb>
I shall be drowned and soon afterwards he sank<lb></lb>
under the Water and a Person in a Boat immediately<lb></lb>
came</p>
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