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Image 277 of 3815th July 1781


Middlesex to Wit

The Information of Richard Murral< no role > , Francis Huckle< no role >
and Joseph Morris< no role > taken before me this 5th day of
July 1781

Who being on Oath say, and first the said Richard
Murral says that he is Book keeper to the Towcester Waggon That
about twelve o Clock in the Night of Thursday the 28th of June last as
he was going in said Waggon to Towcester and as the Waggon was
travelling in a bottom called Brings bottom a little beyond Barnet
in the Road to St. Albans in the County of Middlesex the said
Waggon was stopped by several Men armed with Pistols and
Cuslasser who threatened to blow this Informants Brains out if
he did not deliver the best of the Goods that were in the Waggon, Says
that said,fiveMen robbed the said Waggon of two Boxes of Snuff
a Matt containing two Malisg any Trays a Box, three Trusses and
several bundles the Contents of which an at present unknown and a Shirt two
pair of Stockings and other things this Informants property And the said Francis Huckle< no role > says
that he drove the said Waggon at the time it was robbed as
aforesaid Says that he is very sure that a person now present
who calls himself James Parker< no role > is one of the persons that
robbed the said Waggon and that said Parker held a Pistol to
his head, stood by the Waggon Whilst it was robbed and threatened
to blow his Brains out if he stirred That he doth verily believes
another person now present who calls himself Moses Robus< no role >
whois the person that got up into said Waggon and handed several parcels out of
the same and that he doth also verily believe another person
now present who calls himself Arthur Levy< no role > is the person that
stood on the Ladder of the Waggon and received thethingsparcels
from said Robus from out of said Waggon and put them on the
ground And the said Joseph Morris< no role > says that he is very [..] he
saw a person now present who calls himself Abraham Abrahams< no role >
got into said Waggon whilst the others were robbing it and that




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