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<p n="3760">take money out of his Pockett upon which this<lb></lb>
Informt & <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3760-1">Samuel Griffin</rs>
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went in Search of the<lb></lb>
said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3760-2">Wm. Smith</rs>
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& they met him in <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3760-3">James Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1425">Covent Garden</rs>
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they asked him where he was going<lb></lb>
& his answer was that he was going to the House<lb></lb>
in Lambard Court as he heard that he was charged<lb></lb>
with taking the money & was going to clear himself<lb></lb>
as he thought it very hard that an Innocent man<lb></lb>
should be accused & afterwards repeated by denied<lb></lb>
knowing any thing of it & continued denying of<lb></lb>
it even after he Clements the Justices House<lb></lb>
but upon his Examination & without any promise<lb></lb>
made to him be confessed that he had taken the<lb></lb>
Money & went to sleep by the Water side & that<lb></lb>
when he awoke he had but Six Guineas which<lb></lb>
he had hid in his shed near the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45018_geo1426">Old Barge house</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and this Informt & the other Informant Joseph<lb></lb>
Romans went over to the said Shed & found the<lb></lb>
Eight Guineas now produced said under a piece<lb></lb>
of Timber in the said Shed wrapped up in a paper<lb></lb>
and this Informant Joseph Romans for<lb></lb>
himself saith that when he took charge of<lb></lb>
the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3760-4">William Smith</rs>
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he used all the persuance in<lb></lb>
that he was Master of to induce him to tell<lb></lb>
where the Money was & continued his<lb></lb>
sollicitations for near an but he repeated denied removing any thing of them after our but says when<lb></lb>
he brought him to the Justice he then sold<lb></lb>
this Informant that he could tell him where<lb></lb>
part of the money was & this Informant went<lb></lb>
went with the other Informant Griffin & How<lb></lb>
over the Water to a shed near the Old Barge house<lb></lb>
& found the Eight Guineas now produced</p>
<p n="3761">Severally Sworn before me<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45018_date194">14th. Day of Septemr<lb></lb>
1772</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3761-1">Saunders Welch</rs>
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Griffin</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
<p n="3763">his<lb></lb>
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<lb></lb>
Mark</p>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45018_n3764-2">Joseph Romans</rs>
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