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

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Image 59 of 89923rd January 1798


City & Liberty of Westminster in
the County of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses taken
this 23d. Jany 1798 at the House
ofCarpmeal the Sign of the Coach Houses
in Mount Street in the Parish of St George Hanover
Square on view of the Body of a Man unknown

Thos Edbrook< no role > This name instance is in set 18791880. Mount Street piccadilly Stable Keeper
being sworn, saith that abt ½ past 12 O'Clock on Sunday
Mooving lull the 21st. last hearing a pigery in his
Yard he went down into the Yard & there saw
the deced with his [..] in one [..] & also Bag
Un Deced Said A was his pig & U at Leford
it from piccadilly Lowence this Dept. being
pasuaded A was his pig & the Deced being
a suspicious person he took him to the
Watch-house the Deced asked him told
him go twice or thrice but he [..]
not appear to the Dept. [..] his mind
further he knows not.

Thos Edbrook< no role > This name instance is in set 18791880.

Jno Piddington< no role > a Watchhouse Keeper in Mount Street being sworn
saith that on Sunday last abt. 1 O'Clock per
Colbrook brot the Deced to him & charged [..]
with slealing his pig. he put the Deced in
the [..] LodgeApartment by himself & kept him
this Dept. then ment to cut him some
[..] & took it to him in abt. ½ a hour




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