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

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Image 781 of 79229th December 1797


City & Liberty
of
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Informations of Witnesses
taken this 29th. Decr. 1797 in the
Parish of St. Margaret Westminster
at the House of John Smith< no role > the
Sign of the King's Head in James
Street Westmr. before Anthony
Gell
< no role > His Majesty's Coroner for
the said City and Liberty
touching the Death of Susanna
Landsdown
< no role > an Infant aged
between five and six Years
then and there lying dead
as follow.

To Wit

Samuel Mortlock< no role > Steward to the Westminster Infirmary
being sworn deposeth that abot. 9 this morning (the
29 [..] Decr. 1797) the deceased was brought into the Infirmary
and the Persons who brought her reported that she had
been run over by a Cart, and appeared then to be in
a dying State the Surgeon attempted to bleed her
but to no purpose as she expired in about ten
Minutes




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