Middlesex
to wit}

The Information of Thomas Smith< no role > Lodger ate Mr. William
Emanuels< no role > at No.180 in Newmarket Street in the Parish of
Saint John of Wapping Taken before me One of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace in and for the saul County.

Who being on his Oath Saith that on Wednesday morning last about half past
Six O Clock he was in Bed in a Room of the house of the abovementioned William
Emanuel< no role > in which sant Room were three Beds, Saith tha the prisoner now
present who calls himself James Scott< no role > Slept in one of the Beds in the said
Room sheet might but not with this Informant That about the time abovementioned
being then between Keep and awake he saw the said James Scott< no role > go out of
the Room that he then fell as leep and when he got up and dressed himself
he [..] fred a pair of Silver Buckles out of his Shoes where upon he went to
his Land lord and asked him if he had taken the Buckles out of his Shoes
who sayed he had not, That Suspecting the said James Scott< no role > had taken the
Buckles he procured a Warrant and had him apprehended on Suspicion of
Stealing the said Buckles, that upon his being taken in to Custody (where was
before the Warrant was Granted) her Consessed to this Informant in the presence
of the Person who apprehend him that he had taken the Buckles and hurt sold
them to a Silver smith at the upper End to Rosemary Lane for One Guinea

Taken and Sworn this 19th.
day of October 1789 before
me.

Peter Greene< no role >

The Mark of
Thomas [mark] Smith< no role > }

The said James Scott< no role > on his Defence Saith that he knows nothing at all a bent
the abore Buckles but as the said Thomas Smith< no role > has wit the Buckles he is
willing to make him amonds for the same

The Mark of
James [mark] Scott< no role > }

Taken Signed and declared
to he the saith this 19th. day of
October 1789 before me}

Peter Greene< no role >