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6th January 1743 - 27th December 1744

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County Dick< no role > who has been since executed Josled a Man in a great Coat in
the Strand with a Child in his Arms who endeavoured to escape them by Leaping
out of the Foot way into the Street and called to a Woman which this
Examinant apprehended to be his Wife saying, my Dear take hold of
the Child whereupon the said Billingsly and Jack the Sailor struck at the
said Man with their Sticks by means whereof he hath since heard the
said Child was killed This Examinant further saith that on or about
the twentieth Day of August last he together with Page, Brister Lippee,
Thee, Roberts, Gadd, Morris, Billingsly, Jack the Sailor, and Bannister, in
his former Examination mentioned attacked two Persons at the
End of Woodstreet next Cheapside immediately one after the other
where Jack the Sailor took from each of them a Silver Watch while the
rest of them stood round to guard him This Examinant further
saith That he together with Gadd, Jack the Sailor, Billingsly and
Morris held a Gentleman on the twenty fifth Day of August last
between Eight and Nine o'Clock at Night by the Gulley Hole near
Saint Clements Church in the Strand whilst the said Gadd picked the
said Gentlemans Pocket of a Gold Watch with a Gold Chain and two
Gold Seals and that then they separated and run away And this
Examinant further saith That he omitted in his former Examination
another Robbery of a Silver Wath between Chancery Lane End and
Turn Stike in Holbourn which was committed upon a Man on a
Sunday Night about ten Weeks ago by this Examinant, Thomas
Giles, Jack< no role > the Sailor Billingsly, Wells Morris< no role > , Field, Gadd, Norman< no role >
and Bannister, And this Examinant further saith That they
surrounded him whilst Jack the Sailor picked his Pocket of the said
Watch That the said Man made some Resistance whereupon
Billingsly and Jack the Sailor beat him with their Sticks and
then went away

Sworn at Guildhall London the Day
and Year first above written}

Robt Ladbroke< no role >
Wm Calvert< no role >

The Mark of
Wm. [mark] Harper< no role >




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