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

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Image 71 of 89924th January 1798


there, and observed a small black Coffin upon the Ground ther
upon the Grace which he was to lay the Stones upon
and he went and acquainted the Porter of St. James
Church Yard Gate therewith who returned with this
Deponent and told him to carry it into the [..] ba's
Office which he did

The [mark] Mark
of James Calligan< no role >

John Atkinson< no role > Keeper of St. James's Church Yard
beeing sworn deposeth that and cov [..] the
Evidence of James Calligan that the said black
coffin was brought into the Sertoas Office there
and this Deponent skid in the sd. Office until the
Senckers came who examined the body and said
that it was a born Female Child, that it had
not been ill used and that it had been still born

J: Atkinson

William Morris< no role > Surgeon to St. James's Parish
Infirmary being sworn deposeth that he was
desired to examine the body of the said Female Chid
which he open'd, and particularly examined the
State of the Lungs , and as he is convinced they
never were inflated, he is of opinion the said Child
was still born no Mark of Violence whatever
appeared on the body.

Willm Morris< no role >

The Verdict,
Shelborn Foreman




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