Old Bailey Sessions:
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1789

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Middlesex
to wit}

The Information of Mary Martin< no role > of Mile End old Town in the
Parish of saint Dunstan Stepney in the said County Spinster Mary
Cole
< no role > of the same place Widow John Mc. Guire< no role > of the same place Green
Grocer and Thomas Cristopher< no role > of the same place Gentleman Taken
upon Oath the 13th. day of October 1787 Before me Robert Smith< no role > Esquire
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County.

Forist the said Mary Martin< no role > for herself saith that about Nine O Clock this
Morning the Prisoner present who says his Name is Samuel [..] came to her
Master (Mr. Christophers) door and asked where Mr. Moor lived that she told him at
the next door upon which he went awayMay Cole says about Nine O Clock
this Morning she was Handing at her Window nearly Oposite Mr. Christopher House< no role >
and [..] see one of [..] the [..] other prisoner present who says his Name is John Harris< no role > go into
Mr. Christophers house and in about five minutes came out again that she went we
the way and told Mrs. Christopher that a las was gone out of her house that Mrs.
Christopher looked< no role > in the Banfet and said her Salts was gone that she told Mc. Guire
what had happen and which way Prisoner were gone and that he persued them

Mc. Guire< no role > says about Nine O Clock this Morning he was Informed by Mrs. Cole
that some Chaps had taken something out of Mrs. Christopher House< no role > and were gone
towards white horse lane Stepney that he persued them and Cried out Stop
thief that they were Stopped in a field near Stepney Cawsway by four or five people
as the two prisoners in Company with the other Prisoner who says his Name is
William Pearce< no role > was running along that about Twenty Yards before they were Stepped
he saw the Prisoner Harries drop same thing in the ditch that [..] when he came up to
them he pointed out the Place here he had ken the things [..] to a Streing Man who
whent and picked them up the salts produced in his Sight and brought them to him

Thomas Christopher< no role > says the Salts producd are his property and are of this
Value of two Shillings

her
Mary [mark] Martin< no role >
Mark

her
Mary [mark] Cole< no role >
Mark

his
John [mark] [..]
Mark
< no role >

Thos. Christopher

Taken and Sworn the
Lay and Year first above
Written Before me}

Rob Smith< no role >




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