City & Liberty
of
Westminster
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Informations of Witnesses severally taken
and acknowledged on the behalf of an
Sovereign Lord the King touching the death
of
William Allen< no role >
at the Dwelling house of
Mr. Tramfield the Sign at the
Triumphal Chariot
in Piccadilly
in the Parish
of Saint George Hanover Square
on the
twentieth day of April in the thirty seventh
Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King
George the Third before
Anthony Gell< no role >
his
Majestys Coroner
for the said City and Liberty
on an Inquisition then and there taken on View
of the Body of the said
William Allen< no role >
then and there lying dead as follow, to wit.
Christopher Cridland< no role >
of no. 7
Kemps Court
Berwick Street
one of the Conductors of the Patrole
belonging to
Bow Street
being sworn deposeth that on Saturday
the twenty fifth day of March last this Deponent had
been to Acton Bottom
and on his Return about twelve
o'Clock that Night within a Mile of Tyburn Turn
-pike
he desired two of his Men then in Company with
him to go up the Lane round Crown Hill
and meet
him at Tyburn Turnpike
and this Deponent with two
other of his men went on the Road towards Tyburn
Turnpike
and when they had proceeded about two
hundred Yards from the Lane they heard a great
Cry of Murder which appeared to them to be utterd
by divers Persons, upon which they immediately
stopped