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1783

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Middlesex .

The Examination of John Bitton< no role >
charged with felony by William Usherwood< no role >
of [..] Kilburn in
the C ounty of Middlesex Labourer
I and taken before me Sir Sampson Wright< no role >
one of his MAJESTY'S Justices of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex , this 22nd. Day of May
17 83

Who saith that last Night about nine o'Clock as
he was walking along on the Edgware Road he
saw an Handkerchief and two Glass Cloths now produced
lying on the GroundThat he picked up them up and
put them in his PocketThat he did not stop the said
William Usherwood< no role > at Paddington last Night nor did
not rob him of the sameThat he hath had the
Pistol now produced about five days and bought it of
a Man whose Name he doth not know, but who lives in
Fleet Street and paid said Man five shillings for the
same.

his
John [mark] Bitton< no role >
Mark

Taken before me the Day
and Year above written, }

Sampr Wright< no role >




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