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And this Informant
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Andrew Wallis
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for himself
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saith that he remembers the other Informant Graw
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Tatham coming to his House in Parker Lane
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about Six o'Clock in the morning on Monday the
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fourth of July instant where she sat her self down
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in a Box in the Tap Room in which the two persons
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now present who call themselves Luke Management
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in
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John Smith
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not together with one
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James
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Hawkins
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were sitting that she entered very freely
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into conservation with the said three Mens that this
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Informant went out for some little time & when he
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returned again ward Informed that an attempt had
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been made to pick the said Grace Tathams pocket
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and that she had a Bank note therein that upon
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this Informant entering his House he met the
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said these Men at the Door going away and upon
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his being Informed of the attempt are above he
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Immediately asked of her note was safe & bid her
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look which she did & found that the
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Bank
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Note for Ten pound and a promisory note for
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thirty pounds together with the Handkerchief in
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which they were both wrapped up were all taken &
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out of her pocket & carried away that this
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Informant suspecting the said these new pursued
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them & traced them to the Sign of the two Brewer
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Middle Row Holborn where upon Enquiry he found
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the third men such as he described had been in the
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said House & were but just gone when this Infant
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Enquired and this Informant further saith that
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the Day after the said
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Luke Margerum
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was
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apprehended he confessed to this Informant that
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Hawkins had picked the Women pocket of the
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Handkerchief & notes and that the Ten pound Bank note
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was changed & stand between them but that
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did not know what become of the thirty pound note
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or the Handkerchief
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and there Informant Elizabeth Macher for
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herself saith that she is a servant at the Two
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