Testimony from John William Fisher, surgeon, sworn on oath to Middlesex Coroner Thomas Stirling, 25 February 1820 (catalogue reference HO 44/4/117)
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John William Fisher of Greek Street Soho in the said County of Middlesex, Surgeon upon his Corporal Oath Saith that he this day, opened the body of the Deceased that there appeared am external wound on the right breast between the 5th and 6th ribs about two inches in length that witness opened the body of the deceased in Order to ascertain the depth and direction of the wound found that it had penetrated between the fifth and sixth Ribs, wounded the upper surface of the right lobe of the liver passed through the Diaphram into the chest and penetrated through the pericardium into the right ventricle of the heart and perforated the left lobe of the Lungs. The instrument had penetrated to the ribs on the left side and the wound was of the depth of about twelve inches and that the death was occasioned by the blood being let out of the heart. It must have been a wound inflicted by a pointed and also a cutting instrument.
W. Fisher
Sworn and Taken before me on Friday the 25th day of February 1820
Thomas Stirling, Coroner, for Middlesex