Middlesex
to Wit}
The Voluntarily Examination of
Stephen Reynolds< no role >
.
an Accomplice, Taken the 3rd. day of February 1789
. before me
George Reid< no role >
Esqr.
one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
in and
for the said County Whom I have Admitted an Evidence in his
Majestys behalf against
Joseph Pocock< no role >
,
John Harding< no role >
, and
William Baker< no role >
.
Who being upon Oath saith that about the hour of
Nine of the night of the first of January Instant he in Company with
Joseph Pocock< no role >
, and William Baker< no role >
went to a House the Corner of Chapel
Street
Oxford Street
when Pocock open'd the door with a Pick Lock Key, then
Baker and this Informant went into the Shop, when this Informant took
thereout a Bag containing a Large Quantity of Stockings and Baker
another Bag containing a Quantity of Stockings also Pocock took the Bag
of Stockings from him and put the whole into a Coach in [..] which they
all three went in to the house of Pocock in Chichesters Rents Chancery
Lane
were they shared them and Pocock bought the major Part of them,
and the remainder they took to their different homes for their own use
some of which are now Produced
This Examinant further upon his Oath saith
that there was a Robbery committed in a Shop near Blenheim Steps
in Oxford
Street
between the hours of Eight and Nine O Clock at night of Tuesday the
Twentieth Inst. that he this Informant was in Company with Pocock, and
Harding that the said House was broke open by a small Key which unlocked
the door Harding followered the person of the house to see wherewerehe went to [..]
and in the mean time Pocock unlocked the door with a Pick Lock Key when
Pocock and him both went into together and both of them took Pieces of
Waistcoats Bombazeens. Keisey mere and other Goods which after they had
comitted the Robbery not seeing Harding return they went to this Informant
House at No.10 Cumberland Street
near Middlesex Hospital
where they enmptied there pockets & Immediatly acturred for more Pocock telling
this Informant that Harding would trust to him in Dividing the things upon
which they cut each piece of Breeches Stuff and Sattin into three Pieces, and
Pocock took his share home with him and came the next day for Hardings
which he took away likewise he Pocock approved of the Bombazeen and gave to
this Informant Six Shillings for his share of it for the purpose Of making his
Wife a Gown which Bombazeen he believes to be of the measure of Eight Yards
that he does not know how Pocock and the other disposed of their share but that he
this Informant sent a Person to pledge his share some which are now produced
This Informant further upon his Oath saith that Elizabeth Ford< no role >
was present when
he and Pocock shared the things so stolen as aforesaid
turnover