City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1799 - 28th December 1799

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Image 24 of 85711th January 1799


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Informations of Witness taken
this 11th. day of Jany 1799 in the
Parish of St. Margaret Westmr
at the House of Thomas Jones< no role >
the Sign of the Bill in York
Street Westmr . before Anthony
Gill
< no role > his Majesty's Coroner
for the said City & Liberty
touching the Death of
Edward Edmonds< no role > then and
there lying dead as follow
to wit.

Richard Miller< no role > Corporal in the first Batch [..]
of Foot Guards being sworn deposeth that
abt. ¼ before 7 in the Morning on Tuesday
last as the was going out of the Barrack
Room in Hyde Park he heard a Piece
find off and [..] the Flash from the
Lunding Place there upon which here
directly to the Door and observed the deced
fall on the Floor and gro [..] ned reve [..] al
times upon which this Depont called for
a Light and one of his Com [..] da's Era [..] ht
a lighted Candle and they then saw the
deced lying on his Back upon the Floor
and




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