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<p n="2366"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1470">Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="2367">The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2367-1">Robert Turner</rs>
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at No. 33 Field Gate in the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1471">parish<lb></lb>
of Whitechapel</rs>
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Church Bell Hanger <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2367-2">Thomas Smith</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45024_geo1472">Church Street</rs>
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<lb></lb>
Mile End New Sown <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45024_occ512">Lamp Lighter</rs>
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, Ann Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2367-3">Robert Turner</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2367-4">Elizabeth Bennet</rs>
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as under Described<lb></lb>
Taken this 26th of Decr. 1781 before me One of His Majestys Justices of the Peace<lb></lb>
in and for the said County</p>
<p n="2368">And first<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-1">Robert Turner</rs>
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sayth that he went out of his dwelling house<lb></lb>
Situate as aforesaid Yesterday about the hour of Two in the Afternoon when<lb></lb>
His said House was safe and under double Lock The Window on the Lower<lb></lb>
Floor not broke and fastened down with a Large Nail<lb></lb>
Ann the Wife of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-2">Robert Turner</rs>
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sayth that she went abroad about<lb></lb>
<del>Twelve</del>
One at Noon Yesterday that The Things now produced except the Bag that<lb></lb>
contains them are her husbands property<del>and</del>
which were some of them<lb></lb>
in the Draws of the said House and on the Bed in the first floor of the said<lb></lb>
house<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
that being uneasy or hearing that her said Husband<lb></lb>
was gone from Home she sent <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-3">Thomas Sherwood</rs>
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about a Quarter after<lb></lb>
five in the afternoon to see if the said house was safe who returned and said it<lb></lb>
was safe but that she continuing uneasy about a Quarter before Six the<lb></lb>
went to see if the house was safe when she found The sash of the Window<lb></lb>
or the Ground floor Thrown up which Induced her to call for help. That<lb></lb>
she saw the Prisoner who says his Name is<del> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-4">William Harris</rs>
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</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-5">Edmund Harris</rs>
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<del>endeavouring</del>
in the said Room endeavouring to escape<lb></lb>
BackwardThat <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-6">Thomas Smith</rs>
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came to her Assistance who pumped into the<lb></lb>
Back Room<del>and Seized The prisoner</del>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-7">Thomas Smith</rs>
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Sayth that hearing<lb></lb>
Wm. Turner call out That her house was robbed he Jumped in at the<lb></lb>
Window<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
when he saw a Bag full of some things the same bag which<lb></lb>
is now produced in the Middle of the said Room that he w<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
into a<lb></lb>
back place where he found the<obscured></obscured>
under a Table That a pane<lb></lb>
of Glass in the<del>Window above</del>
Middle of the Upper Sash and Lower now<lb></lb>
of Panes in the said Sash was broke sufficient for a Man to put his land<lb></lb>
Through<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2368-8">Elizabeth Bennet</rs>
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Servant to Mr. Chapman Bell Sounder at the<lb></lb>
Field Gate aforesaid. Sayth that she saw Smith take the prisoner<del>saw</del>
and the<lb></lb>
Bag now produced with sundry things some of which she these saw and one<lb></lb>
the same which are now produced was the Middle of the said Room and<lb></lb>
that the Middle Glass of the Lower row of Panes in the Upper Sash of the<lb></lb>
Window broken so that a Many hand could with<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
case go through the same</p>
<p n="2369">Sworn<lb></lb>
The Day and year above Written<lb></lb>
Before me<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2369-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="2370"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2370-1">Robert. Harries</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2370-2">Ann Turner</rs>
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<p n="2371">her<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45024_n2371-1">Thomas<figure rend="mark"></figure>
Smith</rs>
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mark</p>
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nock</p>
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