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

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Image 132 of 79227th February 1797


said he would go to the Workhouse & fetch
some Persons to Convey the Body thither
and returned soon afterwards with thoes Persons
who put the said Body into a Shell and
Conveyed it to the St. Martins Workhouse
this deponent saieth that the said Body was
in a very Putrid State and imagines he
must have laid in the water upwards of
three Weeks

John Went< no role >

Mr. Young the above mentioned Beadle
being sworn deposeth that when the deceased
was brought to the Workhouse they examined
his Pockets and in the Fob of his Breaches
in a Purse was price of [..] the
were found two Guineas in Gold and of sundry
in his Waistcoat Pocket

Jno. Young< no role >

William Allen< no role > of No. 32 Charles Street Westmr
Carpenter being swon deposeth that he has known
the deceased for between 3 and 4 Years and that
he has not seen the deceased for near five
weeks last past and upon Enquiry he
finds that he has been missing [..]
so long, that he was a Steady sober
Man and had told this Deponent that
his Father had been deranged in his
Mind.

William Allen< no role >

The Verdict That George Jackson< no role > was
found drowned in the River Thames
but him and by what means did
not come to the knowledge of the
Jury

Henry Peter< no role > Foreman

Paper with some Writing thereon which lead to a di'covery
that the deceased was George Jackson< no role >




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