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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1678-1">Sarah Berger</rs>
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of No 108<lb></lb>
in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1069">the Strand</rs>
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and<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1678-2">Ann Hally</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1678-3">Hannah Woodger</rs>
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<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1070">the Globe in the Strand</rs>
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taken upon Oath before<lb></lb>
me this 15th. day of August 1789.</p>
<p n="1679">Who being on Oath severally say and first the said Sarah<lb></lb>
Berger for herself says that between four and five oClock in the<lb></lb>
Afternoon of Thursday last the three prisoners now present who call<lb></lb>
themselves <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-1">Thomas Jones</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-2">Edward Shute</rs>
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, and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-3">Sarah<del>Jones</del>
Rooke</rs>
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in<lb></lb>
company with another Woman came into this Informants Shop in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45036_geo1071">the<lb></lb>
Strand</rs>
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when said Sarah Rooke told this Informant that she wanted<lb></lb>
a pair of Mans Common working Stockings at half a Crown a pair<lb></lb>
that Informant shaved her some, and she made Choice of a pair of<lb></lb>
dark ones at the price of half a Crown and in payment for them<lb></lb>
threw down a Guinea, that Informant sent her boy out to get<del>for</del>
Change<lb></lb>
for said Guinea during which time the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-4">Thomas Jones</rs>
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told<lb></lb>
said Sarah Rooke that he liked a light coloured pair when she replied<lb></lb>
No you shall not have light ones you shall have dark ones, that<lb></lb>
whilst said Sarah Rooke was making Choice of the Stockings said<lb></lb>
other Woman who is absent said Sall make haste for we shall<lb></lb>
be too late at Billings gate, that after this the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-5">Hannah Woodger</rs>
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<lb></lb>
came over and informed her of what she had seen whereupon the three<lb></lb>
Prisoners were Secured, the fourth person having left the Shop<lb></lb>
that Informant then discovered that three pair of Stockings had been taken<lb></lb>
our of her Window namely two of Silk and one of Silk and Cotton And<lb></lb>
that the Single Silk Stocking now produced had been taken from the line<lb></lb>
in the Window which last mentioned Stocking was given to her by her<lb></lb>
Servant who had picked it up<del>from</del>
behind the Compter And the said<lb></lb>
Hannah Woodger<del>Berger</del>
for herself says that she lives opposite the said<lb></lb>
Sarah Berger and that she saw the three Prisoners in the Shop at that<lb></lb>
time, that she saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45036_n1679-6">Thomas Jones</rs>
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take a Single Silk Stocking</p>
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