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

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Image 108 of 80118th February 1793


Wm. Wray< no role > Butler to sir Fras: Molyneux< no role >
being sworn saith, that he has lived with
Sir frat Molyneux in the Capacity of a
Butler for upwards of five year last
past, that the Deced has been at different
timer during that period very dejected in
ten Spints & not perfectly in her Since
this depont came home about Eleven o'Clock
in Saturday Night last
when the Servants said that the Deced had
been missing & one of the Servt. observed
that the had appeared very odd that Day
she was beautiful Not Something had
happened This Deponent with the Footwear
her Okely went to Search for the Deced

& forced her hanging in an Outhouse in
the Yard by a Cord tied round Corneck unto a Bacon across the said N [..] house Mr. Okly with the assistance
of the other two immediately cut her down
but there appeared not the least Segus
of Life & she was hafetly Cold
that Dept. Saith that pursates ApothcaryAssistance Surgeonwas
sent for [..] who did every thing
Necessary but to no Effect as the
Deced ever dead William Wray< no role >

Verdict

that Mary Eliner< no role > was devanged in her Mind and in a fit of Lunacy
did hang herself

John Hurley< no role >




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