City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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8th January 1762 - 20th December 1762

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Image 320 of 39510th September 1762


City and Liberty of
Westmr. in the County
of Middlesex }


Informations of Witnesses taken this tenth day
of September 1762 at the Parish of St. Margaret
in the City and Liberty of Westminster , on View
of the Body of John Cane< no role > then and there
lying Dead.

Ann Cane< no role > of Charles Court in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields , Sister of the deced, on her Oath saith, that Yesterday
Afternoon being in her Father's Apartment in the House
of Mr. Dale, with the deced, and also her Sister, says that
whilst she was giving her Sister some Tea, she being
in Bed, the deced, being near the Window, says that
she did not sea deced fall out of the Window, but her
Sister cry'd out & road that Jack fall out, whereupon she
looked out and saw deced lye on the Ground in the
said Court, says that she saw much Blood running from
deced but could not for the Crowd get near him
says that she has not seen deced since until that him
when she saw him inthe Infirmary in James Street
when he was Dead.

The Mark of
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Ann Cane< no role > .

Christian Cane< no role > of Charles Court Mother of the Deced
on her Oath saith, that Yesterday about two o Clock
in the Afternoon having some Business to go out, left the
deced in her Apartment with his two Sisters Ann< no role >
and Elinor< no role > , and upon her return, which was in above
a Quarter of an hour found the deced lying on the
Benet before her Door, his Head being supported by
Mr. Jackson a Neighbour, says that She observed diver




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