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The Informations
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Taken this fifth day of June 1784 before us two of his Majestys
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in and for the said County.
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Who being on his Oath saith that as he was going from
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aforesaid between the hours of Ten and eleven O'Clock
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in the Evening of Wednesday the 26th. day of May last he was Stopped by
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Two persons (one of Whom as now present and calls himself
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about thirty or forty yards from then Alms houses at the
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aforesaid, and when lays between White horse Street
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That previous to his being so stopped as aforesaid the Tallest of the said two
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Men on his passing this Informant cried Halloa. whereupon Informant
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answered in return Halloa when the prisons immediately with force and
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Violence held his hands on this Informants Mouth and
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stopped his breath
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when she Tall man came up and refled this Informants pocket and before
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and Violence took from his person. Three Guineas & One half Guinea in fold and
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some Sister after which he Book sometime ofTreated
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him down therewith by a violent blow he received from the Tall Man on
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the head. That when he was a little recovered from the Blow he had so received
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as aforesaid he cried out Murder and Thieves Freet when one Welham Fourty
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belonging to the Hamlet of
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Mile End old Town
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, coming to
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him assistant pursued the said
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. until he was stopped and
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secured. by some person at the
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aforesaid.
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And this Informant lastly saith that he is Positive to the person of the
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, and that he was one of the above two person who
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put him in bodily fear and danger of his life and by fore and
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Violence took from his person the money abovementioned, and that he is
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the very Identieal person, who held him
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forcibly in the manner above
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described but hath not since heard or
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has he any knowledge of the other
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Taken and Sworn the day
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and Year first above Written
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