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Source: Welshman 19 Jan 1844 Date: 1844
Copyright: Type: Newspaper
Description: Death & Inquest of landlord John Williams from Drink
Transcript:
AN INQUEST was held on Saturday last at the Red Lion, Lampeter, before John Howell Thomas, Esq., Coroner, on the body of the landlord of that public house, Mr. John Williams, who was found dead in the Crown public house, on Friday, the 12th instant. He had drank a quantity of raw spirits, and was evidently in a state of intoxication. Mr. Francis, one of the metropolitan police was called by the Coroner as a witness, and he stated that he was asked by a Miss Phillips, living at the Crown public house, to go and inform the deceased's wife that he was in the house drunk. He did so, and the wife told him that she wished he was dead. Upon hearing this Coroner, who is also a surgeon, said that on one occasion he happened to be bleeding the deceased's wife, and while doing so deceased told him to bleed her to death, and that he, the Coroner, called tit for tat. The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased "died in an apoplectic fit."
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Crown Inn , High Street, Lampeter
Red Lion , 18 High Street, Lampeter
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