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The Examination
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Footpad Robbery Committed by him on the person of
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before me One of his Majestys
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in and for the said County.
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This Examinant Saith that he knows nothing of the Charge alledged against
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him with respect to the Robbery of
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Silvester Casey
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the Child unborn, but that as he was going through the Alley which leads from
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on saturday night last he saw the said
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up to said Casey and asked him what was the matter when he Called out
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Thieves and Robbers. that said Casey immediately got up and gathered several
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things up which lay scallered about him and put them altogher in an Old
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Handkerchief which was Toner after which he gave them to a Woman and
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then came up to this Examinant and sayed he was sure Examinant must he
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he would go
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with him where he pleased and went with him into a private
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who
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And this Examinant further Saith that he is
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and Worked last Week for his Brother
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The Day and Year abovementioned
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before
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