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<p n="108"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo56">Middlesex</rs>
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and <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo57">City and<lb></lb>
Liberty of Westminster</rs>
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to wit.}</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n108-1">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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one of the Watchmen<lb></lb>
of the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo58">Parish of St Mary</rs>
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le bone in the County of Middx<lb></lb>
taken upon Oath before me one of his Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45015_occ9">Justices<lb></lb>
of the Peace</rs>
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in & for the said County City & Liberty this<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45015_date21">13th Day of January 1770</rs>
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<p n="109">This Informant being upon his Oath saith, that as he was calling the hour of Twelve<lb></lb>
last Night (to wit Friday Night the 12th January) on his round in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo59">Oxford Street</rs>
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, He this<lb></lb>
Informant Saw Three Men; Two of whom are entire Strangers to this Informant but<lb></lb>
one of the Three is one Louis a Smith who works now, or lately did, for Mr <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n109-1">Robert<lb></lb>
Hayes</rs>
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a Master Smith in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo60">Oxford Street</rs>
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, And this Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n109-2">Samuel Oliver</rs>
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upon his<lb></lb>
Oath Saith that the said Three Men (one of whom is the said Louis) he did actually<lb></lb>
see breaking open the outside shop Shutter of a House in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45015_geo61">Oxford Street</rs>
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Whereupon he<lb></lb>
this Informant went to call one <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n109-3">John Pemberton</rs>
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to his Assistance in order to try<lb></lb>
to apprehend them, And that the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n109-4">John Pemberton</rs>
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accordingly did come to this<lb></lb>
Informant's immediate Assistance; And on this Informants coming up the said<lb></lb>
men dispersed themselves different ways; But this Informant knew Louis<lb></lb>
and Spoke to him; And Louis wished this Informant a good Night then this Informt.<lb></lb>
called his Hour of 12 as far from the Spot as he cou'd with Safety (so as not to give<lb></lb>
them much time to Get into the House) & returned back again to the Same spot, where<lb></lb>
he saw the said Men (the said Louis being one) all at work at the said Shutters,<lb></lb>
And that they did actually break open the said Shutter, and made a large hole<lb></lb>
therein of the whole length of the Pannell and wide Enough for a Man to thrust<lb></lb>
his Arm through, quite up to his shoulder, And this Informant upon his Oath<lb></lb>
saith that the said Louis, and the other Men who were then in his Company, did<lb></lb>
so break the said Shutter with no other View or Design but to commit Felony, and<lb></lb>
to Rob the said Shop or House.</p>
<p n="110">Sworn before me this 13th Janry 1770.<lb></lb>
J Lane}</p>
<p n="111"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45015_n111-1">Samuell Oliver</rs>
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