Cuthbert Potts< no role >
of Pall Mall
Surgeon
on his Oath saith
that on Wednesday Afternoon last about a Quarter before
Five a gented Young Gentleman desired he would go to
Mr. Dalston's Shop a Grocer
in the Hay market
as there
was a Person who was pressed to Death deponent
Immediately went, felt the Deceased Arm and his Heart
thought he discovered a Pulsation, had him raised up and
used Rubbing opened a Vein without any flow of Blood
and finding his Efforts ineffectual left the Patient Deponent
Examined the Body of the Deceased from some Marks of
Blackness as if he had been trod upon as he understood
he was in the Crowd going to the Hay market Play house
and that he had been thrown Down, is of opinion that
from Strong efforts the Deceased Might have made to got
from the ground and being foished in them a strangulation
took place, and he Grounds his conjecture from the
blackness in the Deceased [..]
Cuthbert Potts< no role >
Severally Sworn the Day
Year & Place abovementioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role >
Coroner
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