City of London Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1789 - 30th December 1789

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Image 559 of 10194th August 1789


London Informations of Witness taken at the Parish
of Allhallows London Wall in the Ward of Bread Street
in London aforesaid on Tuesday the 4th. day of August 1789
on view of the Body of James Hamishere lying Deced.

Joseph Smith< no role > late Jurneyman to the deced maketh oath that
last Saturday morning the deced did not come down stairs so [..] carly
as he usually did wherefore Dept who lodged in the deceds house went
up to his bed room and knocked at the door several times but the nobody
answered That Dept commuicated this circumstances to the deced's son
and a afterwards with a Laddes went up to the Window Draw the deced
Langing by a rope to the vector of the bed. Dept. says the dead had been in
a very low despends state for more than four months past

Sworn the 4 August 1789
before me
TShelton Corr.

Joseph Smith< no role >

Mary Newman< no role > late Servant Maid to the deced.




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