last the twenty second Instant as I was going
my Rounds, I observed the deceased to fall
upon the Ground in Orchard Street at the
Coroner of Dean Street and hit Santhern
went out of his hand and follow on the
ground and the Candle that was in it, was
extinguised and [..] a man green an [..] and I went up to him directly
and found Thomas Wilkie< no role > the Green Grocer
also on the Ground by him Tom Wilkie< no role >
then got up first and assisted me inhelping
up the deceased when they both appeared
to be bloody on the left side of their Tuees
I then lighted the Candle belonging to
the deceased and put it into his Lenthen
and then this both went together down
Orchard Street but Tom Wilkie picked up
a Man's Shaw and Buckle from off the
spot where they two had fallen on the Ground
and after they were gone I Picked up a
Pair of Tengs and I asked Tom wilkies
Wife what they went and she said her
Mother in Laws and sheradded that the man
who ran away was Bob which her Husband
Brother

Thos. Connor< no role >

Thomas James< no role > House Surgeon to the Westmr
Infirmary being sworn deposeth that at eleven o' Clock on
Thursday Night last the twenty [..] third Instant
the deceased was brought to the said Infirmary
by Persons who informed me that his Scull
was fractured, but upon examining the Patient
I could not discover any fracture, but that
he had had a blow upon his left Eye
at this time he was in a delicious State
and continued insensible to the time of his
Death which Append on Saturday the twenty
fifth Instant between one and two in the
Afternoon, That as there was a metrial
Alteration for the Were on Friday Evening
and Saturday morning it was thought
necessary to trapan him that upon the
Operation being prefered therebeing the
only Chance to save his Life, but it had not
the desired Effect, That upon opening his
head after his death, the Membranes of the
Brain were very much thickard and a conse
derable Inflammation in the Katrieles of
the Brain particularly in three of them and
a considerable Quantity of Pass, and I have
no doubt but there were the Cause of his
Death but I do not believe that the blow
which