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

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knocked down the deceased by a blow on the head
with something that was very hard but whether it
was Iron or Wood the deceased could not tell
but thought it was Iron, and he pulled off his
that and Wigg and told one he had very great
pain in his Head and that it seemed [..]
just as if it would came in two parts and
that he would go to Bed and rise Year about
eight o' Clock and then go to the office and get
a Warrant against Robert Wilkie< no role >

That the deceased was any ill in the afternoon of
the same day and his came insensible and I and his
own Son conveyed him in a Coach to the Westminster
infirmary

William Humeston< no role >

Joseph Moser< no role > [..] of the Police Office
Queen Square Westminster Esquire being
sworn, saith That the deceased Joseph
Stock
< no role > applied to him on Thursday the
twenty third Instant for a Warrant against
Robert Wilkie< no role > , It is usual for Magistrates
before

before they grant a Warrant, to hear
the Complaint, accordingly Iquestioned
him with respect to the said Robert
Wilkie
< no role > and he informed me that he had
been called to the Assistance of Mrs. Wilkie
(Mother of the said Robert Wilkie< no role > ) the Night before,
that her son Rob was beating her, and upon
his interfering, Rob Wilkie Struck him
over the heds and otherwise beat and
bruised him. In Consequence of this Informed
tion a Warrant was granted to apprehend
the said Robert Wilkie< no role > , who I heard had
absconded for the Assault, and as I then
thought the affair serious, I got Mr. Pye to
back it for Surrey, and to increase the Celenity
of his apprehension, as I had on Intimates
that he frequented Smithfield and Billingogate
I signed another Warrant and sent it with
a Note to the Lord Mayor who immediately
backed it, both which Warrants and
the Information upon which they were
grounded are now produced

All the above Informations were
casually to hear and se h [..] the day
Year and Place first above mentioned before me

Joseph Moser< no role >

Anthy Gell< no role > Coroner

The Verdict wilfull Murder
against Robert Wilkie< no role >

Henry Arnold< no role > Foreman




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