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1789

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The Information of Cornelius Roirdin< no role > , Catha
-rine Eatly and Hannah Murphy< no role > taken before
one George Reid< no role > Esquire , one of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace in and for the said County, City and
Liberty this Third Day of July 1789

Who being duly sworn upon their Oaths say, and first
this Informant Cornelius's Roirdin for himself sayeth that on Tuesday
Night last he met with the Person now present who
calls herself Mary Harris< no role > whom he had known for
some Time before when they agreed to pass the Night
together and went for that Purpose to a House the
Sign of the Red Lyon in Viccadilly in the Parish
of St James Westr. and in the County aforesaid
where he agreed for and paid Two Shillings for a Bed
and he together with the said Mary Harris< no role > were shewn
up into a Room by the other Informant Hannah
Murphy
< no role > to whom he gave his Silver Watch and saw
her pin the same to the Bed's Head where she left
it-And this Informant further Sayeth he is
possitive and certain that when he went up into
the said Room he had Two Guineas and a Half
and some Silver in his Pocket, that after immediately the afd.
Hannah Murphy< no role > left him and the sd. Mary Harris< no role >
together he threw himself on the Bed & fell fast
asleep and did not awake till about Six o'Clock in
the Morning when he found the sd. Mary Harris< no role > the
Prisoner had left him and that Two Guineas &
a half with some Silver had been taken out of his
Breeches Pocket and that his Silver Watch with one
Gold Seal and one Metal Seal thereto had been also
taken and carried away And this Informant
further Sayeth that about 9 o'Clock last Night he
met with the Prisoner and taxed her with robbing
of him when the acknowledged her taking a half Guineas




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