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The Information of Simon Wood of Rumalley
Spicers Street Bethnal Green Weaver James Wood< no role >
of the same place Weaver Benjamin Nash< no role > of High Street
Mile End new Town Weaver Alexander Stephenson< no role > of Crown
court Wapping Carpenter taken this 26th. day of June 1789

The said Simon Wood< no role > for himself saith on Wednesday Morning
last the 24th of June Instant between the hours of Four and five
he heard a noise and went to the fails and saw the persons present
who say their names are Joseph Lucas< no role > and James Rock< no role > with
a Bundle and throw the same into the empty House next door
and went away that him and his Father waited for their
return after watching them and in about a Quarter of an
hour they returned when they apprehended them called
for help when Joseph Lucas< no role > drawed the Knife produced out
at his Pocket and threatned to cut their Bloody Livers out
William James< no role > on his oath saith he went to the assistance
of his Neighbour and saw the prisoners strugling with Simon
Wood and his father James Wood< no role > that he helped to secure them
and some time after Benjamin Nash< no role > . the officer came
James Wood< no role > on his oath saith his son telling him he
had Seen two men throw a Bundle into the empty house
he waited and was at the taken of them and went to the
place and saw the lead produced tyed up in the Apron
producedBenjamin Nash< no role > on his oath saith on
the Information of Simon Wood< no role > and his Father that
Bundle had been chucked into the empty house by the
Two prisoners in their hearing being in Custody that he
took said Bundle out of the said house containing the
Three pieces of lead produced which he has kept possession
ever since Alexander Stevenson< no role > on his oath saith the
lead produced he has measured the Gutter belonging to a
house of Mr. Andrew Burt and found it to correspond
George Dowling< no role > on his oath saith he lives in a house of
Mr Burts in Samuel Street< no role > Mile End new Town and that
on Tuesday afternoon [..] last the lead of a Gutter on the said
house was safeThat about the hour of Two on Wednesday
morning he was claimed by a Watchman there were thieves
stealing the lead and found about the hour of Six the same morning
The dead was gone and has not doubt the lead produced is the same lead