City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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Image 400 of 58712th September 1787


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


Informations taken this Twelfth
day of September 1787 at the Parish
of St. Martin in the Fields within the
Liberty of Westmr ,. in the County of
Midsex upon an Inquisition touching
the death of James Price< no role > lying dead
in the said Parish Liberty & County

William Hinders< no role > of the Adelphi Labourer
on his Oath saith That this Morning
about Seven o'Clock Dept was at Work
Loading Coals out of Barges at the
Adelphi when he saw James Price< no role >
the Deced lying in the Mud under
a Barge at the Adelphi in the Parish
of St. Martin in the Fields Says that
as soon as he could he got the Deced
out of the Mud the Deced being dead
and Drowned in the River Thamas
the Tide was then Ebbing, the Deced
having his Cloaths on, and Dept. says
that he believes the Deced fell from one
of the Barges in the River Thamas and
was Accidentally Drowned.

William Hinder< no role >

Sworn the
Day Year &
Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }




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