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Taken on Oath the 30th. day of July 1784 before
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me one of his Majestys
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This Informant
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James May
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on his Oath Saith That on
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Sunday morning the Twenty fifth day of July Instant about
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Twenty Minutes past One O'Clock as he was going from the
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Golden Key
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Public house in Cock Cane in the Parish of
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in the said County of Middlesx to his
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read in the
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aforesaid just
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in the said Road he heard the
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foot steps of some persons walking before him in the afoot way
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(he this Informant being himself in the middle of the Horseway
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that he listened and was attentive to the foot steps going
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behind the Turnpike house in the footway and that he
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continued in the Horse way and walked through at the
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the same being then open in his way home)
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And further Saith that a little before he came to a lane
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which leads from the said Turnpike Road to this Informant house
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he saw two persons at the Edge of the foot way turning towards
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this Informant, at that time he immediately stopped, that one
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of the man appeared to be a tall an and the other a short
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man, they immediately came up to this Informant and the
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short man struck this Informant on the left side of his head with
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a large stick he had in his hand and repeated his blows
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till he knocked Informant down on the Ground and then he
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kneeled down and picked this Informants pocket of
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three shillings and six pence and some paper And that
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during the nine the short was riffling his pocket the tall
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man cut him several blows on the head with a Hanger
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and Swore he would Murder him, then this Informant called
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out Murder several times, upon which Informants wife and
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daughters hearing it they came out at the door with a light
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upon which they immediately ran into the adjoyning field
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And further Saith that
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now under
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Examination is one of the two men that robbed and cut him
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in manner above mentioned.
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Ph:
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This Informant Randolph Durant Saith that he is a Servant
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to Mc. Timmings and Company Brickmakers who hath
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Brickfields nearly adjoyning to
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Turnpike road
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and Saith that on Sunday Morning the Twenty fifth day of
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July Instant
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between the hours of one and two O'Clock
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