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<p n="702"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo426">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n702-1">Frederick Bossy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n702-2">John Mitchell</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n702-3">David Miles</rs>
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taken before me this 8th. day of<lb></lb>
May 1781.</p>
<p n="703">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-1">Frederick Bossy</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself says that this Evening about six o'Clock as he was going<lb></lb>
in thro' <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo427">the Passage</rs>
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of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo428">Opera House</rs>
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leading to the Stairs, he<lb></lb>
perceived two Persons now present who call themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-2">Bennett<lb></lb>
Harbourne</rs>
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and Henry Hastam close to him and pressing upon<lb></lb>
him very much that after pressing upon him some time they<lb></lb>
both drew back<del>and soon<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
</del>
which induced this Informant<lb></lb>
to suspect that they had picked his pocket, whereupon<lb></lb>
he put his hand to his Job and perceived that his Watch<lb></lb>
was gone. Says that the Watch now produced is his<lb></lb>
Watch and was feloniously stolen from him at this time<lb></lb>
and further says he doth verily believe that the said<lb></lb>
Bennett Harbourne and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-4">Henry Haslam</rs>
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feloniously<lb></lb>
picked his pocket of his said Watch. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-5">John<lb></lb>
Mitchell</rs>
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says that he was present at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo429">Opera House</rs>
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<lb></lb>
door at this time and saw the said Bennett Harbourne<lb></lb>
taken into custody; and as the Peace Officer was taken<lb></lb>
him in at the entrance of the Door, he observed the Watch<lb></lb>
now produced drop on a Lady's foot who stood close<lb></lb>
to the said Bennett Harbourne when it dropped; and<lb></lb>
does very believe that said Bennett Harbourne dropped<lb></lb>
it; and further says that he picked the said Watch<lb></lb>
up and delivered it to said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-9">David Miles</rs>
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,<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
or <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n703-10">Peter Gough</rs>
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another <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ128">Peace Officer</rs>
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And</p>
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