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declaring he had had his Pocket picked, a Number of
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to this Informant saying that he was another
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person concerned in robbing him, on which he searched
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him and found the said opera Glass upon him concealed
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in his BreechesAnd further says that from the above
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and other Circumstances he doth verily believe that she
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Sworn before me this
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30th. day of April 1784}
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