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The Information of
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taken before me
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this 11th. day of May 1781.
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says that
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on Tuesday last as this Informant was going into the
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on the Stairs of the five Shilling Gallery, a Man whom he
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verily believes to be a Person now present who calls himself
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Bennett Harbourne
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put his Arm across his Neck and pushed
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against this Informant very hard. That when this Informant
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got into the three Shilling Gallery, he missed his Watch
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now produced; and verily believes that the said Bennett Harbourne
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feloniously stole it out of his fob. And the said
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says that she was going into the
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at
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this time with her Master Dr. Bossey, and was on the Great
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Steps; that her Masters pocket being picked of his Watch,
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she suspected a Person now present who calls himself
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to have taken it, which induced her to take hold
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of him by his Arm and charged him with stealing it.
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That she led him down several steps until they came
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near a croud of people, when she heard the Watch now
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produced chop on
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near the said Haslam and
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this Informant; and does firmly believe that the said
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dropped it. And the said Hannah Onslow
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Barnett says that she was in the
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at this time and saw the said
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