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

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the Evening he sent to acquaint Mr. Griffiths
Surgeon who had the Care of Accidents That
Week, and he came, when he found the deced
in that State that he did not expect he
could live through that Night and he
died about Eleven o'Clock that Evening.
and upon this Deponent Examing him after
he was died he found the Bones of the [..] elvis
fractured in three places, the left Spermatic
Artery, ruptured and a Quantity of Blood
escaped from thence the left Testicle was
much bruised and Marks of Violence on
the Intestines, and has no doubt of his
Death being caused by the Horse falling
upon the deceased

M. Andrews

William Hannington< no role > Groom to Mr. Thompson
No. 84 Piccadilly being sworn deposeth that
he has known the deceased for two Years last
past and that he was a Jobb Servant to Mr
Woodmason(a Banker in Dublin )at No. [..] 32 in
Clarges Street in Piccadilly who is the Owner of the said Horse
who

who has offered the same on Sale for the
space of six Months last past butfurther
this Deponent sayeth not
thus nobody
would buy him as he was known to be
a very vicious Horse, but further this
Deponent knoweth not.

William Hannington< no role >

The Verdict Accidental Death
The Horse the Property of Mr.. Woodmason
now or late 1 of No. 32 in Clarges Street Piccadilly a Forfeiture
Value twenty five Pounds

P Osborn foreman




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