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Middlesex
to wit.}

The Information of James Baker< no role > of Ely Court
Holborn in the County of Middlesex Callico Glazer Catharine
Baker
< no role > his Wife , and Joseph Winter< no role > , of No 8 Cow
Cross Street Optician taken on Oath before me
this 10th. day of October 1789.

Who being on Oath severally say and first the said
James Baker< no role > for himself says that Yesterday morning about three o Clock
his Wife who sells Saloup in Holborn went out to attend that business,
that about six o Clock he also went out in order to go to his work, that
he is certain he locked his room door, and left every thing safe there in at
that time, that when he came out of the house, he saw in the passage
opposite to where he lives a Man lying down, whom Informant asked
what he did there, when said man replied, he was taking a Snooze
that Informant then went away and took no further notice of him,

And the said Catharine Baker< no role > for herself says that Yesterday
morning about three o Clock when she went out to her business, she saw a
man lying down in the Passage opposite the door of the House, that at this
time she had a Lanthorn with a lighted Candle in it, that she looked
at said Man, and has no doubt but that the person now present who
calls himself William Cunningham< no role > is the man she saw lying down in the
Passage as aforesaid, that she took no other notice of said man but
went to her business, that about half an hour past Seven o Clock the
same morning she was told by a Child who lives in the same hour
as Informant, that her Room door was open, upon which she immediately
went home, found it was so, and that she had been robbed of Six Callico
and Cotton Gowns, five Shirts, two Petty coat, a Muslin Shaul, Seven
pair of Cotton Stockings, a Great Coat, a body Coat, one pair of
Breeches, one Waistcoat, a Sheet, one Table Cloth, three Shifts,
Several Handkerchiefs, Two Guineas in gold and about Four Shillings in
Silver and further says that the Gown found upon the said William
Cunningham
< no role > and now produced is one of [..] said Gowns that were
Stolen in her Room as aforesaid. And the said Joseph Winter< no role >




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