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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1450-1">Henry Penton</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ313">Esquire</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo931">the Admiralty</rs>
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, taking upon Oath this 4th September 1781<lb></lb>
before me <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1450-2">William Hyde</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ314">Esquire</rs>
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one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ315">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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for the Said City and Liberty, who Saith that<lb></lb>
on Sunday the 26th of August 1781 he was coming by <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo932">Charing Cross</rs>
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he found somebody bury about his pocket he put his Hand<lb></lb>
Down towards his pocket & he caught hold of the Hand of<lb></lb>
Mary Droley the Prisoner this deponent he Immediately said he believ'd<lb></lb>
she had get his Handkerchief on which she denied it and<lb></lb>
put her hand under her Cloak on Applying to his pocket<lb></lb>
he found he had not last his Handkerchief but his Snuff box<lb></lb>
This deponent immediately took hold of her Hand again<lb></lb>
she having hath her hands behind her Seem'd to be Shifting<lb></lb>
something from one to the other, I had hold of one Hand and<lb></lb>
on laying hold on the other I heard something drop on the<lb></lb>
Pavement which on looking for it I found to be my snuff<lb></lb>
Box I Immediately Secur'd her and Carried her to the<lb></lb>
Watch house</p>
<p n="1451">Sworn before me<lb></lb>
this 4th September 1781}</p>
<p n="1452"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n1452-1">William Hyde</rs>
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