Westminster to Wit the Information of John Whalley< no role > Esqr . of No. 31 Conduit Street near
Bond Street in the said City and Liberty taken before me this 14th..
day of September 1786

Who being upon Oath saith that between twelve and one o'Clock on
Friday Morning last, as he was riding thro 'Albermarle Street in the Hackney
Coach No. 815 driven by a person now present who calls himself Edward
Mills< no role > to No. 31 in Conduit Street / the Coach going a slow pare at that
time / he observed a Man come from the fort Pavement to the near side
of the Coach and talk with the Coachman for the space of a minute and
an half, in a low tone of Voice, whilst the Coach was going on-That
he then head two other Men on the off side of the Coach call out to the
Coachman to Stop, which he did-That said two Men then opened the
off Coach Door and demanded this Informants Money which he gave
them in a Purse amounting to seven or eight Guineas: at which
time she Man on the opposite side opened the near Door-That one
of said two Men then asked for this Informants Watch and he
replied that he had none-That two of said three Men said he had
a Watch and one of them swore that if he did not give it he would
blow his Brains out at which time be presented a Pistol upon
which this Informant gave him the small gold Watch, silk string
gold buckle and key produced-That said three Men then Street the
Doors and ordered the Coachman to go on, which he did, at a
very great rate-That whilst he was driving so fast, the Informant
observed a Watchman coming up from Grafton Street whom he desired
to pursuant the Robbers-That he repeatedly desired the Coachman to
stop, who refused so to do and continued driving at a very great
Rate, till he came to Conduit Street -from which Circumstance
together with his Conduct previous to, and during the Robbery he doth suspect
and believe that the said Edward Mills< no role > was privy to the said Robbery-
and further saith that he doth verily believe that Joseph Wright< no role > now