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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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more another time. That Hodges took this Informant to Mrs. Jones's
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No. 268 in
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an Acquaintance of his but not of this Informants
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otherwise than by calling at her Room for things she might want
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That this Informant Staid at Mrs. Jones's till 9 o'Clock and drank
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Tea there in company with a young Woman That she did not see Mrs.
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Jones when she and Hodges first went nor until ½ past 7 o'Clock
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when Mrs. Jones came home accompanied by Mrs. Hodges and after this
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Informant and said young Woman had drank Tea That Mrs. Jones and
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Mrs. Hodges staid a quarter of an hour and then went away again This
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Informant then wrote a Letter to Mrs Nesbitt desiring her to come to this
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Informant at Mrs: Jones's which Letter she sent by a Man below Stairs
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who returned and said That Mrs. Nesbitt was not at home" That this
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Informant then wrote a Letter to Captain Cook and addressed it to him
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at the Lamp Albans Coffee (house) not knowing that he was in prison
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which Letter she gave to Mrs: Jones's Daughter to be put into the Penny
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post. Being then uneasy she sent the young Woman to the
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to enquire what was become of Captain Cook, before which she requisted
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the young Woman to desire the Servant Girl of the house to sit with
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this Informant till she returned, who came and sat with her a part
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of the time and her Mistress the remainder. That whilst the young Woman
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was gone, Mr. Hodges and Mrs Morris Came Mrs Hodgis bringing with
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him a Bonnett and Cloak. That Mr. Hodges asked her "two the People
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behaved in that house" when this Informant replied that "she did not
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like to stay there for that she did not like the Woman's Talk That Mrs.
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Hodges proposed going out to have some Beer, but Informant objected
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it adding that if he had Beer he had better have it there or
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Stay till He and Morris got home. That Mrs: Hodges said (at Jones's)
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that" this Informant need not be uneasy for that he would assist her
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with Money to get her Things out of pawn That he knew Several
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Gentlemen who would be glad to see her from whom she would get
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plenty of Money and repay him"-That Hodges said also that" he
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would get her a Room which no person should know but his
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