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

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whereupon he called to the Horses in order
to stop them and endeavoured to get down
but was not able until a Boy got
hold of the Fore Horse by which means
the Horses stopped and this Deponent
and several others went upto the deceased
when there appeared to be no Signs of life
in him and some Persons immediately
carried him to St. George's Hospital
and this Deponent imagines that he
was attempting to get upon the Shaft
of the Dray and missed his Hold and
[..] his Frad against the Horse of one of
the Carks and the wheel went over his
Frad which was the immediate cause
of his death

E Holdway

Magorus Witton Andrews< no role > House Surgeon
to St. George's Hospital being sworn deposeth
thaton Thursday Evening last between
7 and 8 o'Clock same persons brought [..]
deceased to the sd. Hospital and informed him
that he had been ran over by a Dray in
Piccadilly , [..] then was much Blood
about

his [..] [..] Now and Month that
when he was brought into the Hall
he breathed once or twice but expired
before they could convey him into
a Ward.

M.W. Andrews

The Verdict
Accidental Death
The Wheel which caused the Death
a [..] Value one Shilling

Thomas Pettis< no role > Foreman




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