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at Mr Essexs
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for himself Saith That on or about Tuesday the 7th.
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day of April instant his Apartment in the
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was feloniously entered And a box therein broke open And
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two Gowns One Pettycoat Six Silver tea Spoons One pair of Silver
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Sugar tongs two pair of Silver Shoe Buckles and two Gold Rings this
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Informants property were Feloniously taken from then to That the two Gold Rings and two Silver
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tea Spoons now produced are part of the said property so
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stolen as aforesaid And the said
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Saith That on Tuesday the 7th. day of April inst. at about the
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Four of Five oClock in the Afternoon the Prisoner who calls
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now produced This Informant asked him how he came by
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then And he answered that he found them at the corner of
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. That they were tyed Round with a piece
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prevaricated much in
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his Story which indirected this Informant to Suspect he had
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Stolen the said two tea Spoons.
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Sworn before me the
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day and Year first above
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