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Image 186 of 37631st January 1789


Middlesex
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The Information of Elizabeth Ford< no role > Taken
Upon Oath before me George Reid < no role > Esqr . one of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said County
this 31st. day of January 1789

This Informant upon her Oath Saith that she hath
lived for sometime past with Stephen Reynolds< no role > that upon Tuesday the
28th. Inst. just before the Watch went Nine she was going home to where
she lives in Cumberland Street in the Parish of St. Pancras in the said
County that just at the Corner of the said Street she was over taken
by Reynolds and another Man and Reynolds gave her a knock of the
Elbow which she did not know the meaning of when he and the other
Man went on very first towards home whither she followed then directly
that when she came into [..] Room Reynolds and one Joseph
Pocock
< no role > were [..] there and she saw each of them Pull some things
out of their several Pockets which things appeared to this Informant
to be Silks and Stuffs that they just laid the said things down
and went out of the Room again directly in about a Quarter of
an hour they both returned and each of them brought a considerable
Quantity more but where they got them this Informant did not
know after this they divided the said things into three parts and left
them in the said Room that night that this Informant heard it declared
by Pocock and Reynolds that the said three Parts so divided were for
the shows of Reynolds Pocock, and one Harding whom she understood
from the said two Men had been sent to Watch the motions of the
Master of a Shop where she since understands they broke into [..]
[..] and was not therefore actually present at the time of the
Robbery This Informant further saith that Pocock took his Share away withthathim that night and the next Morning about
Ten o Clock the next Morning Pocock with his Wife came to the said apartment and took
Hardings Share away with them saying they came for it by his
Direction

Sworn before me the Day and
Year first above Written}
Geo: Reid< no role >

Elizth ford< no role >




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