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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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know but what it might be done that way he told the said
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Jones that the Plate lay in a Cupboard facing the Pantry door
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that about two or three days after the Robbery was Committed
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in Mr. Fitzroys House this Informant saw the said Jones
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in Company together at the Welch Harp a Public House
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and saith that
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having heard on the Sunday Morning the said House had been
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Broke Open the Night before he went on the Monday Morning
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to the Sign of the Peter and Key in peter Street to see for the
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said Jones and found him in the said House when this
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Informant sayd to him so Jones I see it is done (meaning
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the Robbery of Mr. Fitzroy) upon which he laughed and
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sayed he knew nothing at all of its soon after he calld
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this Informant out and bid him hold his Tongue and say
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Nothing at all about it he then and lent him either One
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Shillings a One Shilling and Six Pence and then left him
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that the next day or the day after this Informant saw
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Jones a the some House in the forenoon and Mentioned
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to him about the Robbery when he desired him to be easy
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and Quick as the property was not disposed off and sayd
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that there was some false or franch plate plate that
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would not come to any thingthen they parted that
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about a Week or Ten days after this Informant saw
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Jones and Hawkins together at the Welch Herp in
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Peter Street and no Conversation passed about the
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Robbery but Jones lent him a Shilling or Eighteen
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pence some few days afterwards this Informant
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met Hawkins in Wardour Street and stopped this
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Informant and sayd that he was not better them
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he should be for saying that he was Concerned in the
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Robbery and after some little Conversation they work
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