City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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3rd January 1798 - 31st December 1798

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Image 206 of 89912th January 1798


which is our the Coach house in King street
Mews Park that Grosvenor Square [..]
whereupon this Deponent and others went immediately
to the room where they found the Deceased hanging
by his Neck by a Halterd or lord fixed to the Testor of the
Bid and a Person there Present out the said Halter or Cord and
laid him on the Bed at which [..] Horses appeared
no Signs of Life in him an Apothecary was
rent for directly who came and said it was to
no purpose to toy any Means for his recovery
as he was quite dead.

William Watson< no role >

Richard Goodlake< no role > Coachman to Lady Mary
Churchill
< no role > being sworn deposeth that he has
known the deceased for many Years last part
that for six Weeks before Christmas Mr. Pitt
dismissed him since which time he has been
in a low Melancholly way and appeared
at times like one deranged in his Mind

Richard Goodluke< no role >

The Verdict, That the said William Sexty< no role >
was deranged in his Mind and in a fit of Lunacy
hanged himself

Geo. Sackwell< no role >
Foreman




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