City & Liberty
of
Westminster
}
Informations of Witnesses taken this 23d. day
of September 1793
in the Parish of St. John the
Evangelist Westminster
at the Dwelling house of
Clarke the Sign of the Adam and Eve
in
the
Bowling Street Westminster
before
Anthony Gell< no role >
His Majesty's Coroner
for the City and Liberty
aforesaid touching the Death of a Woman
unknown then and there lying dead as
follow.
Francis North< no role >
of Rochester Row Court
under being
sworn deposeth and saith That as he and two of his
Companions were walking up Mill Bank
between 8 & 9
o'Clock on Saturday morning last the 21st. Instant between
the Sign of the Rae Buch and the Timber Yard they saw
the Body of the deceased lying in the Ditch on the right
hand side of the Bank near to and which communicates
with the Common
Sewer whereupon they immediately
went into the Water and dragged the Body out and
laid it on the ground when it appeared to be a Woman
and that she was quite Sliff and cold without any
Signs of life or Marks of Violence upon the body
that she had [..]
this Deponent and his Companions then went and
acquainted the Overseers of the Parish of St. John's
Westminster
with what they had run and done
and this Deponent saith that he heard the deceased
had