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1788

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Middlesex
to wit}

The Information of Robert shaw< no role > Shopman
to Henry Snowden< no role > of High Holborn Linnen
Draper, William Norman< no role > taken the Eighth
Day of December 1788

Who upon their several Oaths say and first the said
Robert Shaw< no role > for himself saith that the Prisoner George Evans< no role >
was employed to put a Square of Glass into the Shop
Window that two silk Handkerchiefs was lying in the
same Window wch. he was to repair that when the Prisoner
had finished the Handkerchiefs were missing upon which he went
up Stairs at the request of Mr. Snowden< no role > & he the sd. Mr. Snowden< no role > then sent
for a Person to search him

William Norman< no role > upon his Oath saith that Mr.
Snowden
< no role > a Linnen Draper in High Holborn master of
the above mentioned Robert Shaw< no role > sent for him & shewed him the
Prisoner George Evans< no role > who denyed he had any
Handkerchiefs but upon searching him he found two
silk Handkerchiefs in his right hand Pockett wch.
were worn to be the Property of the sd. Mr. Snowden< no role >

Taken the Day and
Year above mentioned
before me}
Dwalker

Robt. Shaw< no role >

mark
the [mark] of
William Norman< no role >




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