Elements of Medical Jurisprudence: Or a Succinct and Compendious Description of Such Tokens in the Human Body As Are Requisite to Determine the Judgment of a Coroner, and Courts of Law, in Cases of Divorce, Rape, Murder, &C (Classic Reprint)

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Street, before A. Gel], Esq. Coroner for Westminster, on the body of Sarah Sylvester, a cook in thafa mily, of the Rev. Dr. Robert Hodg son, Rector of 'st. George, Hano ver Square, wholput an end to her existence by cutting her throat with a razor, in a hay-loft over the stae ble, in the rear of the housein Lower Grosvenor Street, after ha ving delivered herself Of a male child, whose body was found flying dead near her, with a silk handker chief tied roundl its neck, and the body covered round with hay-bands, It appeared in evidence, that be tween ten and. Eleven O'clock on Thursday. Morning the deceased was missed from her master's house; it was then supposed she was gone out* on some business of her own, but not returning as the dinner hour drew near, the butler enquired for her at the houses of several persons.

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