City and Liberty
of Westminster ,
In the County of
Middlesex .}
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King at the House of Mrs. Carpeneal the Sign of the Coach & Horses in Mount Street Parish of St. George Hanover Square
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the twenty third day of Feby 1795 in the thirty fifth
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Anthony
Gell< no role > , Esq. Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on
View of the Body of Joseph Jeffris< no role > then and there lying dead , upon
the Oath of the several Jurors whose Names are hereunto written
and Seals affixed
good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Joseph Jeffris< no role > came to
h is Death, do upon their Oath say that William white< no role > being lunatic and distracted in
his Mind on the eighteenth day of february in the year aforesaid at the parish
and in the Liberty aforesaid To Wit at the poor House of the said Parish
situate in Mount Street with a certain Tin Can which he the said William
Made then and there had held in his right hand in and upon the left
Temple & fore head of him the said Joseph Jeffris< no role > did them & there strike stab and
penetrate, thereby then and there giving unto him the said Joseph Jeffris< no role > one Mortal
Wound on the head of him the said Joseph Jeffris with the Tin Can aforesaid of
which said mortal Wound, she the said Joseph Jeffris then are there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid
do say that the said William White< no role > so being lunatic and distracted
in his Mind him the said Joseph Jeffris in manner and by
the Means aforesaid did kill. In Witness whereof as well
the said Coroner as the said Jurors have to this Inquisition
set their hands and Seals the day Year and place abovewritten.

Anthy. Gell< no role >
Coroner } [mark]
Thomas Shutt< no role > [mark]
Joseph Menton< no role > [mark]
John Walker< no role > [mark]
Robt. Knight< no role > [mark]
Benjn. Ashmead< no role > [mark]

John Smith< no role > [mark]
John Freeborn< no role > [mark]
William King< no role > [mark]
Wm Gidden< no role > [mark]
Jos. Whitehead< no role > [mark]
Wm. Davies< no role > [mark]

Geos Tomman< no role > [mark]
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