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1789

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The Informations of John Mc. Carty< no role > and Edward
Tredway
< no role > taken upon Oath the Seventeenth Day
of October 1789

Who upon their several Oaths say and first the said
John Mr. Carty for himself saith that he keeps a Publick House
in Cockpitt Alley Drury Lane that on [..] Friday the Sixteenth Day
of October Instant about eleven o Clock at Night he fastened
the Windows belonging to his House and went to Bed but left
some Company in his House and also the two prisoners John
Richardson
< no role > and Nicholas Duke< no role > that sometime afterwards
his Wife came to Bed that some Time afterwards he was
awakened by the Watchman who called him and said
Mc. Carty< no role > your Window is broke open & I dare say you are
robbed upon wch. he immediately got up & upon search
found he had been robbed & that the wearing Apparell
now produced is his Property

Edward Tredway< no role > for himself saith that being a Constable
he went along with John Beamish< no role > and John Mc. Carty< no role > above
named to execute a Warrant upon the prisoners John
Richardson
< no role > & Nicholas Duke< no role > on suspicion if their having
burglariously broke open & robbed the sd. John Mc. Cartys House that
he took the prisoner John Richardson< no role > at the sd. Mc. Carty's House that he then
went and took the other Prisoner Nicholas Duke< no role > at his
Father's Cellar in Charge Court in the Strand near Exeter
Change and upon searching him found in me of his
Breeches Pocketts some Silver & in the other Pockett some
Halfpence & Farthings and upon searching under the
Stairs found a Bundle containing the property now




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