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

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Image 38 of 85724th January 1799


in Court before me the said Coroner and
the Foreman and the rest of the Jury here
present, that pursuant to the aforesaid
Warrant, this Deponent called to his
Assistance, the Deceased and divers. others
of the Patrole belonging to the said Office
[..] amounting to fifty and
upwards in Number) to the said Kings
Arms in Maynard Street, about nine
o'Clock in the Evening of the said
twenty sixth day of December last,
that, when he and the above said Patrole
came to the said House ha and some of
the said Patrole went into the Tap-Room
where they found several Persons there
drinking and smoking, and upon this
Deponent's hearing some body playing
upon a Fiddle and Persons dancing
above Stairs, he this Deponent and
some of the Patrole went up Stairs
with him, and secured the Men [..]
in Number about fifteen, most of when
were sent to different Watch-houses
and

and whilst third Deponent and some of
the Patrole were Putting the Women
(in Number about twenty five including
the Woman in the Chair the said Muting
being composed of the Coner Cless of People called the Cock and then Club
into another Room in order to keep them
together until they could be safely conveyed
tot he watchhouses one of the Patrole
came up to this Deponent and said, for
God Almiphtys So he, Mr Millar come down im
mediately, for our People are being
cut to pieces and there will be some of
them murder'd, upon which this Deponent
came down Stairs immediately and saw
to the Number of nine Irishmen beating
and cutting the deceased in the Tap-Room
with Cut losses and Bludgeons, whereupon
this Deponent made a Blow with his
Cut Cass at some of them who were b [..] ting
and Striking the deceased, and this Deponent
new a Persons cut the deceased on the
left Shoulder which fell him to the
Ground, and he immediately exclaimed
Mercy, Mercy, [..] Lord Iron murdered
then




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