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

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stopped the Horse and the Horse turned round
but not very kindly upon which the
deceased who had no [..] sons struck him slightly with a
Switch whereupon the Horse immediately
reared up upon his Hind [..] Legs and was
in that Position nearly a Minute and
theyoung Mandeceased leaned forward
throwing his right key out of the Strrup
upon which the Horse fell backward
upon the deceased and the Horse instan
-taniously got up and gallopped away
at a great Rate towards Piccadilly
The deceased (as soon as the Horse was gone
got up and ran from the Middle of the
Road to the Wall and fell down against
it and this Deponent and two other
Persons lifted [..] took up the deceased and
assisted him in walking to a Public house
the Coroner Grosvenor Street and this
Deponent knowing that Mr. Eabank a
Surgeon was then it Lord Scarborough's,
went and informed him of the Accident
who

who came and examined the deceased and
said he could do nothing unless he was
undressed, therefore the deceased was conveyed
from thence to the Sign of the runing Horse
in P [..] where the deceased lodged and
this deponent assisted him in getting up
Stair, to his Bed Room and as Mr Eabank
did not come they sent for others of the Treathy
and [..] a Person came who examined
him and he was then conveyed to the St. George's
Hospital This Deponent further say the that when the deceased was undressed he said, I have heard say that the said Horse had been the Death of one Person before
but he never thought that he should have an Accident from him altho' he was a [..] ty Horse.

Thos D Robson< no role >

Magnus Andrews< no role > House Surgeon to St.
George's Hospital being swon deposeth
that between two and three o'Clock the
deceased was brought to the said Hospital
in a Chair and was perfectly scarsible
and upon the Gentleman of the Faculty then examining him they found the
Testicles much bruised and the lower
parts of the Belly in the same State this
Deponent this bled him and ordered such
Medicine as hethoughtmost proper on
the Occasion, finding him get worse in
the




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