City & Liberty
of
Westminster }

Informations of Witnesses
taken this 27th day of Febry 1797
in the Parish of St. Martin in the
Fields at the House of John
Cuttle< no role > the Sign of the Naggs head
in Orange Court Castle Street
before Anthony gell< no role > his Majesty's
Coroner for the sd. City & Liberty
touching the Death of George
Jackson< no role > then and there lying
dead, as follow, to Wit.

John Went< no role > of Mr. Woods wharf Northumberland
Street Privated Watchmen being sworn deposeth that
the morning abot. ½ past 5 as times watching
the Wharf as usual he observed something
between 2 boys in the water then which the
stopstooped down to ful thinking it was
a Sack of Malt but soon afterwards dis
-covered it to be a human Body where
upon he haled a Waterman who came and
brought the Body of the deceased to the Shoar
at the wharf Northumberland Street and there
he left him whereupon This Deponent applied
to Mr. Young the Beadle who came and said
he