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

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Scull (the only part extine) with one
hand and one Foot, in Clinis [..] to be Evene
that the Mother went to her fall time
and from the appearance collectionly I
suppose it has been dwonned by a Pigor
a Dog, there is a Pressemption as it was
found with [..] another Infant entere which
upon Examination was found to have been
still born that this mutrilated Infant
was Still born likewise

Willm Morris< no role >

Ann Sellers< no role > of No. 20 King Street St. 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. 20 King Street Saint James's Square
Jobscrued a Bundle in the Passage tied up in a
white Handkerchief which I took up and
meeting with Mr. Collins (another Lodger) at the
Foot of the Stairs, I asked him if the Bundle
belonged to him, upon which, he took it from me
and said he would enquire, and he took it
up into his own Room, and I returned to
my

my Room and is less then five Minutes,
he desired me to come down Stairs into his
Room, and when I got there, he had untied
one Corner of the Handkerchielf, and bode
me look and till him if there did not appear
to be a Childs-Foot in it, and I said
I thought it was, whereupon he desired
me 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-Stret, 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 have no reason to suspect that it
belonged to any Person that lodged in the
house where Hodged. I was afterwards
informed there was part of another Child
in the same handkerchief were both
carried to the Workhouse

Ann Sellers< no role >




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