Coroner's report on the death of Emily Williams

Proceedings Before Coroners

INQUISITION

VICTORIA,
TO WIT.

An Inquisition for our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, taken at
Melbourne Gaol

Victoria, the eighth and twenty second days of March and
the fifth, sixth and seventh days of April
A.D. 1892 in the Fifty Fourth year of the Reign
of our said Lady the Queen before me James Edward Neild
Gentleman, a Coroner of our Lady the Queen
for Victoria, upon the view of the body of Emily Williams
otherwise named then and there lying dead, upon the oaths of [see marginal note 1]

Francis Flynne
Bernard L'Espinasse
James John Diuley
Harry Salt
James Elliott
Paul Francis Keswick
Michael George Cooney

good and lawful men of Melbourne in Victoria,
who being duly sworn and charged to inquire, upon the part of our Lady the
Queen, when, where, how, and by what means the said Emily
Williams, otherwise named came by [see marginal note 2] her death, do say upon their
oath that [see marginal note 3] the jury find that Emily Williams
or otherwise named, viewed
by them on the eighth day of
March 1892 at the Melbourne
City Morgue, was, on the
third day of March 1892
[crossed out] found lying death beneath

[Numbered notes in left margin]
(1) Jurors' Christian and surnames in full.
(2) His or her.
(3) Here state cause
of death if known;
if unknown, doubt-
ful, or no evidence,
state the fact accord-
ingly, using the
words of the verdict
of the Jury

a hearth-stone situated at 57
Andrews Street Windsor. And the jury
further find, that Albert Williams otherwise
known as Frederick Bayley Deeming
and otherwise named, on, or about,
the twenty fifth day of December 1891
at Windsor, near Melbourne, did
by fracturing the skull, and cutting
the throat of the said Emily Williams,
feloniously, wilfully, and of his
malice aforethought, kill and
murder the said Emily Williams.
We wish to add, that the thanks of
the community are due to the
Sergeants of police, the two Constables
and Constable Davidson who
assisted at the raising and preserving
for investigation of the body. And also
to Sergeants Cawsey and Considine for
the manner in which they worked up the case.

In witness whereof as well the aforesaid Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid
have to this Inquisition put their hands and seals, on the day and year and at the
place above mentioned
[signed] James Edward Neild Coroner.

[See marginal note 1]
Francis Flynne
Bernard L'Espinasse
James J Dinley
Harry Salt
James Elliott
P. F. Keswick
Michael George Cooney