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1789

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The Information of Susannah Wife of Robert Key< no role > , and
William Rackner< no role > Taken upon Oath before me Rupert
Clarke
< no role > Esqr, One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace in
and for the said County this 7th, day of December 1789.

This Informant Susannah Key< no role > upon [..]
Oath saith about the hour of Town in the afternoon of the
fifth of this Inst [..] December she went out upon business
from her [..] Apartment Situated in Compton Street in the Parish of St.
James Clerkenwell and left the Window thereof fastened will
a Gimblet that on her return about Six oClock of be same
night she was informed she had been [..] Robbed, and that
the Person was in Custody this Informant then immediately
Searched her apartment and [..] missed two Worsted
Stockings and perceived the Window had been throcon up and
the Gimblet forced out And further upon her Oath Saith
She hath every reason to Suspect that the Prisoner Robert
Reed
< no role > was the Person who feloniously and burglariously
broke open her said apartment in the dwelling house of
Benjamin White< no role > house aforesaid and Stole the said Stocking
the Property of her husband Robert Key< no role >

Suh Key< no role >

The Informant upon his Oath saith that [..]
about [..] half an hour after five of the night of the
fifth Inst. he saw the Prisoner and another person in Company
whose not yet taken at the window of the other Informant
and saw the Prisoner Robert Reed< no role > force open the said Window
and take some things thereout and give them to the Person, not
yet taken who Immediately ran away with the same, he then
Immediately secured the Prisoner and had him Conveyed before
a Magistrate for the said Offence

Taken and Sworn before me the
day and Year first above Written
Rup: Clarke}

his
Wm [mark] Rackner< no role >
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