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

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reason to conclude that at was a Tavern
as it so perfectly corresponded with the
other which was found with it, as for as the
mutilated State of the other would allow
me to judge thereof, and that there appeared
to he no marks of violence on the Body of
this said Male Child which was
complete

Willm Morris< no role >

Anne Sellers< no role > of No. 20. King Street Saint
James's Square being sworn deposeth as
follows to Wit, that at ten o'Clock last
Night as I came down Stairs from my
own Room at No. 22 King Street St. James's
Square I observed a bundle in the Passage
tired up in a while Handkerchief which Stook up and
meeting with Mr. Collins (another Lodge)
at the Foot of the Stairs I asked him of
the Bundle belonged to him, upon which
he took it from me and said he would
enquire, and he took it into his own Room
and I returned to my Room, and [..] ss
than

than five Minutes, he desired me to came
down Stairs into his Room, and when I
got there he had untied one corner of
the Handkerchief and Cade me look and
till him if there did not appear to be a
Childs Foot in it, and said I thought it was,
whereupon he desired one to go with him
to the Watch house and he called the
Watchman and delivered the Bundle to
him and we all three went to the Watch
house in little Vine Street and Mr. Jones
the Beadle who was there, opened the said
Bundle and I saw a dead Child in the
said Bundle and I was so shocked at the
Sight of it that I did not observe any
thing more in the Handkerchief and I hone no reason to
suspect that it be longed to any Person that
lodged in the house where I lodged. I was
afterwards informed that there was part of
another Child in the same handkerchief & were
both carried to the Workhouse

Ann Sellers< no role >




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