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X IRBY’s 'WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
into, and nightly watch kept up against the common enemy,
and several persons taken up and examined, but no clue
found, to detect the murderers; and while every exertion was
making, another murder was committed on the same spot,
nearly equal in extent and atrocity to the last, of the fa-
mily of Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and their woman servant,
on Thursday December 19, 1811, at the sign of the King’s
Arms, No. 81, New Gravel-lane, which increased the hor-
ror of the inhabitants; the particulars of which will appear,
by the relation of the witnesses summoned on the Coroner’s
Inquest.
coroner’s inquest on the dead bodies.
On Saturday afternoon, at two o’clock, an Inquest was
held at the Black Horse, New Gravel-lane, on the bodies of
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and their servant, Bridget Har-
rington, before Mr. Unwin, coroner for the district.
John Turner sworn.—I am a sawyer by trade, in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Scarlett and Cook; I have lodged in the
house of Mr. Williamson, in New Gravel-lane, for about
eight months; I lodged in the front garret, which is two
floors from the ground floor; I board at my brother’s, who
lives near Mr. Williamson’s; I went from my brother’s to
Mr. Williamson’s on Thursday evening last, about twenty
minutes before seven o’clock, as near as I can say; when I
went in Mrs. Williamson was standing at the front door,
and followed me ; Mr. Williamson was sitting in the middle
room in his great chair ; the servant was in the back room.
I saw no other persons in the house but those three; Mr.
Williamson told me to sit down; I stood by the fire ; a little
man came in, whose name I understand to be Samuel Phil-
lips—he came in, according to his usual custom, for a pint
of beer, and told Mr. Williamson that there was a stout
man, with a very large coat on, passing in at the inner glass
door in the passage ; Mr. Williamson catching up the can-
dlestick, said, “ 1’11 see what he wants.” He went out with
X IRBY’s 'WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
into, and nightly watch kept up against the common enemy,
and several persons taken up and examined, but no clue
found, to detect the murderers; and while every exertion was
making, another murder was committed on the same spot,
nearly equal in extent and atrocity to the last, of the fa-
mily of Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and their woman servant,
on Thursday December 19, 1811, at the sign of the King’s
Arms, No. 81, New Gravel-lane, which increased the hor-
ror of the inhabitants; the particulars of which will appear,
by the relation of the witnesses summoned on the Coroner’s
Inquest.
coroner’s inquest on the dead bodies.
On Saturday afternoon, at two o’clock, an Inquest was
held at the Black Horse, New Gravel-lane, on the bodies of
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson, and their servant, Bridget Har-
rington, before Mr. Unwin, coroner for the district.
John Turner sworn.—I am a sawyer by trade, in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Scarlett and Cook; I have lodged in the
house of Mr. Williamson, in New Gravel-lane, for about
eight months; I lodged in the front garret, which is two
floors from the ground floor; I board at my brother’s, who
lives near Mr. Williamson’s; I went from my brother’s to
Mr. Williamson’s on Thursday evening last, about twenty
minutes before seven o’clock, as near as I can say; when I
went in Mrs. Williamson was standing at the front door,
and followed me ; Mr. Williamson was sitting in the middle
room in his great chair ; the servant was in the back room.
I saw no other persons in the house but those three; Mr.
Williamson told me to sit down; I stood by the fire ; a little
man came in, whose name I understand to be Samuel Phil-
lips—he came in, according to his usual custom, for a pint
of beer, and told Mr. Williamson that there was a stout
man, with a very large coat on, passing in at the inner glass
door in the passage ; Mr. Williamson catching up the can-
dlestick, said, “ 1’11 see what he wants.” He went out with