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<p n="3105"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2143">Middlesex</rs>
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to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3105-1">William Tucker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3105-2">Thomas Harwood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3105-3">Charles Sears</rs>
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taken before me this 17th. Day<lb></lb>
of August 1784.</p>
<p n="3106">Who being on Oath say and first the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3106-1">William Tucker</rs>
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says<lb></lb>
that this Afternoon between 3 & 4 o'Clock, as this Informant was<lb></lb>
passing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2144">by the New Church in the Strand</rs>
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, with a small deal Box,<lb></lb>
and a Parcel now produced containing three grose of Thimbles on<lb></lb>
his Head, (and which Parcel this Informant had fast hold of by the<lb></lb>
string that tied it) a Person now present who calls himself <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3106-2">William<lb></lb>
Smith</rs>
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came behind him, snatched the said Parcel by force from<lb></lb>
him and ran away with it. And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3106-3">Thomas Harwood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
says that being in his Shop at this time and after seeing said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3106-4">William Tucker</rs>
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go first with the Box and Parcel on his head,<lb></lb>
he heard the cry of "Stop Thief"and upon his Running out,<lb></lb>
saw said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3106-5">William Smith</rs>
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drop said Parcel and run up<lb></lb>
Little <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2145">Drury Lane</rs>
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. And the said Charles Sears says that<lb></lb>
he was passing by at this time and saw the Parcel lying<lb></lb>
at the corner of Little <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45028_geo2146">Drury Lane</rs>
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, which Parcel he picked<lb></lb>
up, and is the same new produced.</p>
<p n="3107">Sworn before me this<lb></lb>
17.. Day of August 1784}</p>
<p n="3108">M Addington</p>
<p n="3109"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3109-1">Wm Tucker</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3109-2">Thos Harwood</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45028_n3109-3">Charles Sayers</rs>
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