City & Liberty
of
Westminster }

Informations taken this 19.
day of July in the Year of our
Lord 1797 an the Parish of St. Geo
Hanover Square at the House of John
Tramfield< no role > the Sign of the Truimphande
Chariot in Piccadilly before
Anthony Gell< no role > his Majesty's Coroner
for the sd. City and Liberty
touching the Death of George
Humphries< no role > then and there lying
dead as follow to Wit.

Andrew Matthias< no role > House Surgeon at St. George's
Hospital being sworn deposeth that abot. three
o' Clock Yesterday Afternoon (the 18th Instant)
George Humphries< no role > was brought to the said Hospital
and he was informed that he had met with an Accident
by falling off a Scaffold in South Audley Street
that he was quite insensible with Symptoms of
a Concussion of the Brain with a small
lacerated Wound at the Top of his Head and that
every means was used for his Recovery but without
the Wished for Effect as he died [..] between
one and two o' Clock this morning and the Deponent
is opinion that to hired in Consequence of falling from
the said Scaffold

Andrew Mathias< no role >

The Verdict Accidentally death by falling off
a Scaffold

John Nicholas< no role > Foreman