City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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5th January 1793 - 30th December 1793

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Image 98 of 80116th February 1793


City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex
to wit}


Depositions of Witness taken this Sixteenth
Day of February in the Year of Our Lord on a
thousand seven hundred and ninety three
at the House of Mr. James Fozard< no role > of Park Land
on the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square in
the said County of Middlesex Stable Keeper on
View of the Body of John Wood< no role >

John Strutt< no role > [..] to the deceased John
Wood
< no role > being sworn saith that he has lived with
the deceased in the Capacity of Hastler upwards
of two Years last past, That about the Hoin
of Eleven o Clock thus [..] this deponent
was called up Stans into the deceased Apartment
in his Stabled Yard in Park Lane That upon
[..] going up Stans he found Miss Charlotte
Wood daughter of the decreased in Fits, That
when deponent enquiring the Cause Mr. John
Wood
< no role > Jun Sen to the decreased sayd [..] Father
was dead in consequence of which deponent
went into the Bed Room when the deceased
Slept, where found the decreased quite dead
with a Pistol in [..] Right Hand which appeared
to have been fixed, That a Quantity of Blood
appeared to have [..] from the Head of the
deceased That another Pistol the fellow to
that found the Hand of the deceased was laid upon the Pellow
That deponent never sons the Pistols before
either in the possess [..] of the deceased a
elsewhere to [..] knowledge, That for a




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