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

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Image 633 of 89915th September 1798


City & Liberty
of Westmr
in County of
Midsex }


Informations of Witnesses taken
15th. Sept. 1798 in Parish of Saint
James Westmr . at the House of
George King< no role > the Sign of the Coach
and Horses in Brown Street before
Anthony Gell< no role > his Majesty's Coroner
In sd. City & Liberty touchg the Death
Mary Booth< no role >

Harriatt Hawkins< no role > Servant to Mr. Faram
Keeper of Wine Vault No 48 in Brown
Street being sworn deporeth that this
morning the 15th Septr. Instant about
20 Minutes before 8 o'Clock as she was
going into the Kitchen there she observed
deceased hanging ley her Neck on an of
the spit Racks by a silk Handkerchief
which terrified her so much that she
man away and acquainted her Master
with it who went directly and as she
is informed took her down she appeared
to have her shift and Petticoat on
the Door was unlocked as usual
that the deceased has appeared at limes
times to have been in a low [..]
Way but from what Cause this Deponent




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