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

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knoweth not as she has often told her she
was unhappy in her Mind but could give
no other reasonwhythen thatthewith respect
to Spiritual affairs she was a Lost woman
that she has reason to believe she was a roman
Catholic.

Harriot Hawkins< no role >

Thomas Faram< no role > of No. 48 Brown Street
Vintner being sworn deponth that the
Deceased has lodged in his House for near
one Year and an half and has here during
most of that time afflicted with a newans
Turner and been [..] a Handed by a Doctorll
Apothecary on that Account and that
the affliction fill on her Never on the
Death of her Husband and the Gentleman
of the Faculty hance not of late attended
here as they said they could not he of any
Since to her that few days last part she
had been worse but this Deponent King by
her rather better Yesterday, that this Many
between 7 & 8 this Morning when the Sml.
Maid went down into the Kirchrn where the
Deceased slept she returned immediately
Freaming

and [..] could not speak whereupon
this Deponent followed her into the
Kitchen where he observed the deceased
hanging by her Neck by a Silk Hand
kerchief fastned to one of the Spit
Backs over the Fire - Place, upon which
he lifted her up and took her fun thence
and laid her on the Ground and took
the Silk Handkerchief from around her
Neck & then ran immediately to Mr [..]
Pratt and Marshall Shymish & Apothe
cories in Bruises Street and one of this
Assistant cane directly and had divers
mean for her recovery but without the
desired effect - she had on her Shift
her under Petticoat and Stockings and
her Cup and ribbunds as usual
This Deponent is of Opinion that she
hunged herself that the had raid to him she
was a last woman and was afraid the should make
every saith herself.

Thos Faram< no role >

The Verdict

Deranged in her Mind and in a fit of Insanity
hanged herself

James Blase Jones< no role >




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