City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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14th January 1764 - 24th December 1764

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Image 467 of 50515th November 1764


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


Informations taken this fifteenth day of
November 1764 at the Parish of St. George
Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westmr.
in the County of Middlesex on an Inquisition
taken on View of the Body of Elizabeth
Winfield
< no role > the Wife of George winfield lying
Dead in the said parish Liberty and County

John Walker< no role > one of the Watchmen of the Parish of st.
George Hanover Square within the Liberty of Westmr. in
the County of Middlesex on his Oath saith That on Tuesday night
last. Deponent being calling the Hour of Nine and going
along Park Lane , a Dog that was with Deponent barked, upon
which Deponent saw the Deced lying upon the Ground upon
her left side in the said Lane, upon the foot way, very near
Hyde Park Hall in the said parish of St. George Hanover
Square ,Says that he called several times to the Deced, and
on her not making any Answer Deponent went to light
his Candle with Robert Crisp< no role > a Coachman , who about with
Deponent to the Deced, Says, that they then found much
Blood under the Deced and about her on the Ground and her Cloaths were
very Bloody, Deponent says that Mr. Mealin a Surgeon
was fetched, who Examined the Deced in presence of
Deponent, when Deponent observed a great wound in
the Threat of the Deced, and Dept. believes that Deced was
Deced, says that he found a Razor upon the Ground above
half a Yard from the Deced says that the Rozor was Street
and bloody Says that he saw a Man Standing about
thirty Yards from the place where the Deced lay, when he
first discovered the Deced, Says that the Man upon the
Deponents calling out, came to Deponent and Stard with
him, by the Deced some time, and then went away but
Deponent did not know the Person, Deponent says, that
he sent Mr. Murphy another watchman to the Watchhome
to Acquaint the Beadles and Constable therewith and that
two of the Beadlas of the said Parish immediately came to
Depant. and Says that the Deced was soon after carried by the




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