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a Lodger in said House
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Who being upon Oath Say and first the said
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Saith,
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that last Night about Eight o'Clock, her Linen was
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hanging to dry in the Yard belonging to the House where she lives;
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that being in her Wash House adjoining said Yard, one Camell as
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Lodger brought her a Street, and inform'd her that some of the Linen
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was laying in the Yard; that having pin'd the Linen when she put
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it on the Lines, she was sure that some Person or Persons, must have
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taken it Off, and running into the Yard Saw the Prisoner
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James Carey
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with two
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other Men, rush out of the Necessary and Jump over the Wall into
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the next Yard; that seeing the Linen now produced viz two Shirts
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two Shifts and our Waistcoat, laying in the Necessary House, she legs
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them, and Ran into the on
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the Privy
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for himself saith that hearing the
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alarm, he went down into the Yard, when he saw the Prisoner
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getting over the Wall; that after giving the Linen which was in
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the Necessary to Either Ramson, he got our the Wall in pursuit
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John Spicer
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for
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himself saith that hearing an alarm, and being informed
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that the Prisoner was in the Necessary House at Mr. Turbolls,
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he went thither and pulled him out by the Collar
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Sworn before me this
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6th. day of Octor. 1786}
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