City & Liberty
of Westmr
. in the
County of Midsdex
}
Informations taken this Twenty
eighth day of March 1785
at
Tothill Fields Bridewell
in the
Parish of St. Margaret
within the
Liberty of Westmr. in the County of
Middlesex
upon an Inquisition touching
the death of
Thomas Wheeler< no role >
a
Prisoner
lying dead in the said Prisoner
William Barton< no role >
Surgeon
on his Oath saith
That he this day Examined the Body of
Thomas Wheeler< no role >
a Prisoner
in Tothill Field
Bridewell
, and found no Marks of
violence thereupon, Says that he has
visited the Prison every day upwards
of a fortnight last past, and heard no
complaint of the Deced being ill, Says
that, he was informed to day in the
Prison, that the Deced died there this
Morning, and Dept. believes that the
Deced died in a natural Way.
William Barton< no role >
Henry Wright< no role >
Under keeper of Tothill Fields
Bridewell
on his Oath saith That Thomas
Wheeler< no role >
the Deced
was brought to Tothill Fields
on the Seventeenth day of February last
being Committed by Mr. Justice Gilbert,
appearing then to be in Health, That he
has not at all complained of being ill
and was Confined in the same Ward with
other Prisoners that were in Health
Says that this Morning a little after Eight [..]
o'Clock one of the Prisoners came to Dept.
saying that Wheeler was dying in the
Taproom, upon which Dept. went there
and