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Image 92 of 21411th February 1769


Middlesex To wit

The Information of Thomas Bird< no role > taken before me
this 11th. day of February 1769

Who being upon Oath says that he knows William Hedges< no role > now in Custody,
Catherine Dalton< no role > otherwise Hussey now also in Custody, and one Mrs. Dalton
the Mother of the said Catherine, says that on Tuesday Evening last the
said William Hedges< no role > , the said Catherine Dalton< no role > and this Informant stole
out of the shop of Thomas Booth< no role > now present in Cross Street Hatton Garden
a great Quantity of wearing Apparel, that the said William Hedges< no role > went
several times into the said shop and brought out the things and that the
said Catherine and this Informant stood ready in the Street and assisted to
carry them off, that they carried them to a house in Turnmill Street where
they all three lodged, That the said Mrs. Dalton the Mother of the said
Catherine bought three Livery Waistcoats and two black Jackets from
the said William Hedges< no role > knowing the same to be stolen, that a great
part of the Remainder of the said stolen Apparel was sold to two Jews
whose Names he does not get know, that he has great Reason to believe the
said Jews knew the said Cloaths to be stolen because they bought then at an
under Price, that the said Catherine has pawned several of the said things
at different Pawn brokers, says that on Tuesday Evening last soon after
the above mentioned Robbery the said William Hedges< no role > , the said
Catherine Dalton< no role > and this Informant stolen about 8th. of Sugar out
of a Grocer's Shop in Gray's Inn Lane part of which the said
William Hedges< no role > had says that last Saturday Nightthisas this Informant
& the said William Hedges< no role > were going down Turnmill Street the
said William Hedges< no role > went into a Pawn broker's Shop & stole
a Bed Gown & a shirt, that the Bed Gown is pawned in St. John
Street by the said Catherine Dalton< no role > & that the said William
Hedges
< no role > now wears the said Shirt as this Informant believes, that
on Wednesday Evening last the said William Hedges< no role > the said Catherine
Dalton
< no role > and this Informant stole out of a shoemakers Shop in
Brooks Market a pair of Shoes & 7 odd ones, that the said William




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