City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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Image 39 of 89917th January 1798


and added he imagined somebody was there
who did not choose to open the Door, wherefore
Mr. Goodess knocked 2 or 3 times at the
Door and as nobody within spoke, he broke
the Door open with a Poker, and found
the deceased sitting on the Seat [..] leaving
his Head against one Coroner of the Necessary
and [..] was quite Motionless, was [..]
but there were no Signs of Life, whereupon
Mr. Goodess sent immediately into Duke
Street to Mr. Nevison who came and
the deceased was moved from the Necessary
into the Parlour [..] where
Mr. Nevison open'd a Vein but very
little Blood issued forth and he deceased
him to be irrecoverable

[..] Armfield

The Verdict
Sudden Death by the Visitation of God
Ser
James Savage< no role > Foreman




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