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The Information of John French< no role > Son ofJohn Cuthbert French< no role > or Ducking pond Lane
White Chapel Watch maker Elizabeth< no role > Wife of Alexander Wood< no role > of Church
Lane White Chapel Mathematical Instrument maker and
taken before us three of His Majestys Justices of the peace [..] in
and for the said County

John French< no role > on his Oath Says that this
Morning last he was on riding behind a Coach
in Whitechapel High Street with the Prisoner who
says his Name is William Haxman< no role > he missed
his Pocket Handkerchief and a Tin Box with
the Movements of a WatchThat he challenged
said William with having taken the same
and laid hold him pulled him of the Coach Then being on the Public Highway between Church Lane and Osmond Street Whitechapel
and asked him if he had not the same seeing
part of the said Handkerchief stick out of his
Breeches which he this Informant pulled out
[..] Says the Handkerchief and TinCaseBox with the
Movement, of a Watch now produced, are the same
that was taken from him as aforesaid
Elizabeth the Wife of Alexander Wood< no role > of Church lane
Whitechapel Mathematical Instrument Maker
on her Oath says this Morning about the Hour of nine as she was
going from Osmond Street to Church Lane in the Public Highway she saw
the TinCaseBox now produced upon the Stones which she took and Examined, when found
the same to Contain Watch Movements That hearing that a Boy was
in the Watchouse for a Watch and handkerchief Says the abovenamed
John French< no role > claimed the same to be his

Sworn beforemeus at
White Chapel the 10th
day of August 1786 }
John Staples< no role >
Wm Quarrill< no role >
Saml. Hawkins< no role > .

John French< no role >

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Elizth [mark] Wood< no role >
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