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The Informations of <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-1">Samuel Mobbs</rs>
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of the Parish of Saint Saviour<lb></lb>
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in the County of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo146">Surry</rs>
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and Richard Carpenter Smith<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo147">the Borough</rs>
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aforesaid, Esquire, taken before me <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-3">William Pickett</rs>
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<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-4">John Walker</rs>
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Esquire one<lb></lb>
of His Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ58">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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in and for the said City, Who,<lb></lb>
being upon Oath, severally say, And Frist the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-6">Samuel Mobbs</rs>
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for<lb></lb>
himself saith, that he was standing this Morning on Fishstreet Hill<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo148">City of London</rs>
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, and observed the Prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-7">Thomas Cunningham</rs>
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now under Examination,<lb></lb>
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in Company with others whom he doth not know Follow the other Informant<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n178-9">Richard Carpenter</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15098_occ59">Smith</rs>
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, down the said Hill. Saith that having a<lb></lb>
Suspicion of them, he walked after them, and saw the Prisoner put this<lb></lb>
Hand into the other Informant's Pocket, and take from thence the Silk<lb></lb>
Handkerchief now produced:- Saith that as the Prisoner was in the<lb></lb>
Act of putting the said Handkerchief into his Pocket, he laid hold of him<lb></lb>
by the Collar; when he saw it fall from under his Coal<del>his Hands</del>
upon the Pavement,<lb></lb>
and the other Informant pick it up.</p>
<p n="179">And the said Richard Carpenter Smith for<lb></lb>
himself saith, that as he was coming down Fishstreet Hill between the<lb></lb>
Hours of eleven and twelve this Morning, he was pulled by the Coat by<lb></lb>
the other Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n179-2">Samuel Mobbs</rs>
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, and turning round saw<del>the Prisoner</del>
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the said <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n179-3">Samuel Mobbs</rs>
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have hold of the Prisoner at the Bar, and a Silk<lb></lb>
Handkerchief laying at the Prisoner's Feel, which he picked up, and found to<lb></lb>
be his own, which the said Mobbs informed him he had seen the<lb></lb>
Prisoner take from his Pocket.</p>
<p n="180">Taken and sworn at the <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15098_geo149">Guildhall</rs>
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London the<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15098_date32"> 3d March 1787</rs>
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, before me}<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n180-1">Willm. Pickett</rs>
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his Mark</p>
<p n="182"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15098_n182-1">Richd: Carpenter</rs>
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