City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1797 - 29th December 1797

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Image 106 of 7923rd February 1797


William Colvin< no role > Errand Boy to Mr.
Nicholls Printer in Red Lion
Passage Fleet street being sworn
deposeth that as he was come [..]
(it being then past nine at Night
out of St. Margarets Church Yard
towards Tothill Street he met a
Boy who looked like a Footboy
and who told him that there was
a Man shot and lay in the
Porch of the West End of
Westmr. Abbey whereupon this
Deponent went [..] by himself
to the Porch and saw a Man
lying down upon the [..]
Stones in the said Porch and
something wet about him and
be immediately left him and
went with a Parcel to Mr. Below
at Emanuel Hospital and
delivered
delivered it and when he came
back he saw he saw some Watchmen
putting the body into a [..] on a Boardand
conveyed him away and further
this Deponent knoweth and
sayeth not.

his
Wm [mark] Colvin< no role >
Mark

The Verdict That Colonel
Frederick was diseased in his Mind
and in such State, of Inqu [..] shot, himself

D Walter




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