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Marrow spoon and two Tea Spoons [..] a pair of Breeches a Shirt two pair of
Silk Stockings which they stole but not being able to go into the other parts of the
house by Reason of the Kitchen Door being bolted on the other side they came
back the same way they had gone in, that they found the said Matthew Matthewson< no role >
& John Murray< no role > in the Street at some Distance from where they had left them, that
the said Murray & Matthewson said the Watchman was coming by that in order to
avoid Suspicion they had walked away from the house they were robbing, that
they then threw the said Breeches down an Area near the house they were stolen
from and carried the other things away, that the said Benjamin Murphy< no role > and
Matthew Matthewson< no role > went away and the said John Murray< no role > and this Informant went
to the said Catherine Grahams and carried the said Spoons Shirts & Stockings to her
in the Room where she was in Bed, that she bed them leave the things there & she
would pay them for them in the Morning that they did accordingly leave them &
went to Bed up two pair of Stairs in the same house, that about 10 o'Clock they
got up & the said Catherine Graham< no role > paid the said John Murray< no role > Six Shillings for
the said Spoons & promised to give this Informant two Shillings more, that
the said Murray & this Informant then went to the King's Arms aforesaid and
about in hour the said Matthew Matthewson< no role > & Benjamin Murphy< no role > came
to them, that the said John Murray< no role > then gave the said Matthew Matthewson< no role >
and Benjamin Murphy< no role > two Shillings a piece as their Share of the Money for
which the things were sold that they had stolen the Night before

John Suttell< no role >

The Information
of John Settles
Agt.
John Murray< no role > Matthew
Matthewson
< no role > Benjamin
Murphy
< no role > Etc
for Burglary




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