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Foreign News
July 20, 1739
The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
What is this article about?
In Bishopsgate-street, London, a maid servant discovered her rejected suitor, watch chainmaker William Corbet, hanging in her master's yard on Sunday morning. He had entered to revenge her refusal. Coroner's inquest verdict: lunacy.
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On Sunday Morning, when the Maid Servant of Mr. Noxon, in Bishopsgate-street, went to open the back Windows of her Master's House, to her great Surprize she saw William Corbet, her Sweetheart, hanging on a Beam that went across the Yard: He was a Watch Chainmaker, and had courted her some time; but she refusing to have him, on Saturday Night he parted from her, and afterwards found Means to get into the Yard, and hanged himself, to be revenged of her. The Coroner's Inquest having sat on the Body, brought in their Verdict Lunacy.
What sub-type of article is it?
Suicide
Coroners Inquest
What keywords are associated?
Suicide
Bishopsgate Street
Watch Chainmaker
Rejected Suitor
Coroners Inquest
Lunacy Verdict
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Noxon
William Corbet
Where did it happen?
Bishopsgate Street
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Bishopsgate Street
Event Date
Sunday Morning
Key Persons
Mr. Noxon
William Corbet
Outcome
hanged himself; verdict lunacy
Event Details
Maid servant discovered William Corbet hanging in the yard after she refused his courtship; he entered the yard Saturday night to revenge her.