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himself saith that on Monday Morning last about Ten
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now present run up Stairs
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to his Room being in the same house this Informant
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Lodges in at which time he had dirty boots on and
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he believes the same Surtont Coat he now has on, says
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that having heard the same Morning of several Coaches
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being Robbed on
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he immediately
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suspected said Smith to be the Person who had Committed
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said Robberies and now he believes it, And this Informant
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Vincent Wcock for himself saith that he also suspects said
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Smith hath been Guilty of several Highway Robberies says
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that one day last Week, this Informant lodging in the
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next room to him, he looked thro' a hole in the Wainscot
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and saw said Smith sitting upon his Bed loading a Brace
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of Pistols and that he gave one of them into the hand
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Sworn before me
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