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for himself says that a Quantity of Leaden Pipe now produced is his
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property and was affixed to his Dwelling house in Exeter Court aforesaid
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between the hours of nine and ten o Clock this morning; and that
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in about an hour and a half afterwards the said Lead was taken
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away and some part of it put into his Dust Hole and the other
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come from out of his Fathers house where he was sweeping
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about a Quarter of an hour and then returned to this Informants
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says that from the above Circumstances he is very sure that
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is the person that feloniously stole
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his said Lead
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Sworn before me this
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29th. day of March 1781}
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W Addington
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