City & Liberty
of
Westminster
}
Informations of Witnesses taken this
23d day of February 1795 in the Parish of
St. George Hanover Square
at the House of Mr. Carpenant the Sign of the
Coach and Horses
in Mount Street
before
Athy Gell< no role >
his Majesty's Coroner
for the
said City and Liberty touching the death
of
Joseph Jeffries< no role >
then and there lying
dead as follow
Sarah Turner< no role >
night Nurse
in the Kings Ward in the
Workhouse
in Mount Street
Grosvener Square
being
sworn deposeth that on a Wednesday Evening last
the deceased was brought into the work house
and put into the Kings Ward that about one
o'Clock in the afternoon of Saturday last one
William White< no role >
was likewise brought as a patient
into the said Ward and was reported to be a mad
man
but believed very quit all the Evening
and at 9 o'Clock this Deponent gave him a
Powder at which time he was in Bed and very
serial and quiet and offended no one that a
little before 6 the next morning (Sunday the 22d.
Instant) he got up and dressed himself and
set down by on the Bed Side close by the deceased
and Began talking to him in a very wild maner
seemingly very sensible and when the Clock struck
six this Deponent gave the said Willm. white< no role >
another