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

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finding him in the Bed Chamber where this Depont
had left him she went into the Drawing room
where she saw him lying on the sopha quite
motioness and a Pistol in his right Hand and
Blood passing from his mouth whereupon this
Deponent immediately sent for Mr. Lindsey who
lived nearly opposite and was the most intimate
acquaintance of the deceased who came over and
found the deceased in the Possition and Situation above
mentioned this Deponent further sayeth that
from the time she first came to attend the deceased
and from his conversation at different times she
is of opinion that he was deranged in his mind
and a lunatic

Ann Spillard< no role >

William Lindsey< no role > of Dean Street Soho Gentleman being
sworn deposeth that he has known the deceased for
nearly a Dozen years last part, that he was always of
a very restless dispossition and seemed always unhappy
that he came to Town from his residence at Rentham in
Suffolk one day last week that last Wednesday knight
he called upon this Deponent and seemed very unhappy
and told this Deponent that he missed his little
Pembroke Table which used to stand in the Drawing Room
whereupon

whereupon he went into the Kitchen and found the
Table there with a Key in the Drawver which was
in part open'd that thehe came to Town to
undergo an operation, havingwhich was he
[..] thought to be a venereal Complaint
which operation having been performed disturbed
and distracted his mind very much being in great Bodily pain from the operation and was confined
at home all the week in consequence thereof
that on Wednesday morning last at that about
Eleven O'Clock he called upon this Deponent and
seemed then almost frantic and produced and a letter
signed R. M. to the following purpose namely that his House keeper
was a very bad woman and connected with House
-business and Highwaymen and that the Person who
wrote the Letter R.M. expected to hear that he was
murdered in his Bed and that he was in danger
of his man life and property that Yesterday about 2 this
Deponent was desired to come over to the deceased
when he found him dead on the Sopha with the
a Pistol in his right hand and much blood in &
about his mouth.

Mr Lindsey

John Foot< no role > of Dean Street Surgeon being sworn
deposeth that a little before two O'clock Yesterday
just as he had knocked at his own door which is opposite to the
House of the deceased Mr. Lindsey called very eagerly




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