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The Several Informations of John Price< no role > and Jacob
Freeman
< no role > taken the 16th day of January 1788

Who Upon their Oaths Severally say and first the said John Price< no role > saith That on
Saturday night last about Eleven o Clock he was walking along the Strand when
a Woman who calls herself Mary Blundriff< no role > accosted him and aked him to go
home with her, which he did, when he sent for half pint of Gin that they with
another Woman who calls herself Sarah Brown< no role > drank it when he undressed went to Bed
Put his Breeches (in the Pockets of which was Four Guineas and half and Twelve Shillings)
under his head that she [..] the said sarah Growr< no role > Mayr Blundriff< no role > came to and lay down on the bed that he son afterwards fell asleep, that after sleeping some
time he awoke and found the Women gone when he searched his
Breeches (which was taken from under his head and put on the
Bed) and found the money was taken away that he immediatley
got up and went to a Public house in the Neighbourhood

The said Jacob Freeman< no role > for himself saith that on Sunday Morning
about Nine o'Clock [..] he was informed that
the aforesaid John Price< no role > was Robbed of some Money and that he
was at the Bunch of Grapes in Cross Lane next door to where he
was Robbed that he went to the Publice house where the said John
Price
< no role > was and from thence to the said house that when he cume
to the door of the Room he found it fasten'd [..] with a Padlock, that
he was informed the Women were in the Room over head where he
immediately went up stairs and found them in Bed together that
on Searching them he found No Money on Mary Blunduff< no role > but on
Sarah Brown< no role > he found Six Shillings.

Sworn the 16th January
1788, Before me}
D Walker< no role >

Jno. Price< no role >
Jacob Freeman< no role >




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