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

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City & Liberty
of
Westmr.}


Informations of Witnesses
taken this 5th. day of June 1798
at the House of Willm. Johnson< no role >
the Sign of the Ship in Channell
Row Westmr.in the Parish of
St. Margt. Westmr . before
Anthony Gell< no role > his Majesty's
Coroner for the sd. City and Liberty
touching the Death of William
Wildman
< no role > an Infant think
there lying dead as fellow,
to wit.

Robert Dixon< no role > a day Porter at Messrs. Campbells
and White Timber Merchants in Channell Row
Westmr. being sworn deposeth, that between
5 and 6 o'Clock Yesterday in the Afternoon
being at the Wharf belongg to sd. Cabell & White
to see the Rowing Match he saw the deceased aged between in and 4 years in
a wherry pushing it off fromthea loaded Baye
which lay near the sd. Wharf and he fell into
the River Thames and this Deponent went
immediately to get him out of the River, but
before




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