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Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
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has heard Armstrong say, that he sold his Whack Chetook
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that to mean his part or shard of the Linen) to one Smith
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who also goes by the Name of Stainers and
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who is now
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at the Bar-Nays that Smith lives in Bromstick
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Alley, Moorfields-Armstrong told Informant, the
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very day he was shot, that he had sold his Linen for a
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Guinea a piece, and that he had not then get all the
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Money-Informant believes Armstrong had been
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returned from Transportation about an Weeks-says,
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he has been at Smiths house in Broomstick Alley, only
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once-and that was, when Armstrong had, just returned
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Smith was not at home when Informant was there
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with Armstrong, but that he called at Informants
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Lodgings a few day after
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And this Informant further saith that about
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a fortnight or three Week after Armstrong returned
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from abread, he the Informant, Armstrong, and the
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Prisoner Abraham, went on a Sunday Night to a
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Warehouse in Finch Lane, where he under stood that
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Armstrong had opened the door with a pick lock key
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before he came to Informant, and had taken some
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bundles of Yarr to a House they then lived at, in an
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Alley leading from Lond Alley into Moorfields-that
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as Informant and Armstrong were going to this house
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which was the prisoner Abrahams, they met one
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Patrick Murphy
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, and told him there was a trifling
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Affair, of a Warchouse behind the Change, and asked
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him to give them a hand-Meaphy said, with all his
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hart-this was about seven O'Clock in the Evening-the
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Warehouse is in Threadneedle Street almost apposite
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to a Courtsays, that Armstrong, Abrahams, and
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Murphy went with him from Abraham's lodgings to
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this WarehouseArmstrong staid without to lock
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the Door after they went in-Informant and the
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two others went into the Warehouse-Abrahams took
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two bundles of linea Yarn, and put into each of the
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three bags they had with them-the bags were
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brown bagn of the same kind and colour a
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them now
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prodecedThat a day or two after this transaction
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