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The Information of Joseph Smith
Piercy
< no role > taken this 2d day of July 1789

First Joseph Smith< no role > on oath says
that last Tuesday Week he met the person now present that calls
the self Dinah Brookes< no role > in a passage near White
hall that they went to a publick House and drank
a Glass of Gin & then went with sd Woman to her
Lodgings in Duck Court to a one pr. Stairs Room
that this In or there examind his pocketts and in his
Right Hand Fob Pockett had nine Guineas & one half
and in his Right hand Breechers pockett a half Crown
Six pence that He undressd himself put his
Breeches under the Bolster went to Bed & to Sleep
about Twelve OClock Wakd about three next morning
found he had been robd of sd mine Guineas & half &
the half Crown piece & Six pence and a Diamond
which was afterwards found on the Bed and the
said Dinah Brooks< no role > gone away that last night he
saw the sd Dinah Brooks< no role > in the Street followed her to
same Lodgings were he had been Robbed as aforesaid

Josh. Smith< no role >

John Piercy< no role > on Oath says
Joseph Smith< no role > informed him of the Robbery and that
he had met the Girl that this Infort went &
found the sd Dinah Brook< no role > in the House were
she Loged [..]
[..] and took her into Custody

John Piercy< no role >

Sworn this 2d day of
July 1789

Robt Abington< no role >




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