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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-45">Richard Beatley</rs>
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his <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45029_occ530">Wife</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-26">Gawen Cron</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1374">Gold Street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1375">St. George Middlesex</rs>
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taken this 30th. Sepr 1785 And first the said Richard Beatly on<lb></lb>
his Oath saith the Prisoner now present who says his name is <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-1">Robert Simpson</rs>
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on Tuesday night the 27th Instant between the hours of Eight and Nine followed<lb></lb>
him as he was going home with his said Wife and desired to let him lay these<lb></lb>
saying he could not get into his lodgings that said Robert went with them<lb></lb>
and would be content if he layd on the Floor which he did. Says about the<lb></lb>
hour of Four next Morning his said Wife awoke him saying her Mony<lb></lb>
was gone and the man was gone. Says last night between the hours of ten<lb></lb>
and Eleven he saw the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-2">Robert Simpson</rs>
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in a Public house called the help<lb></lb>
way house in the Road to <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45029_geo1376">Stepney</rs>
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who he laid hold off and charged him with<lb></lb>
robbing this Informant to the Amount of Seven pounds nineteen Shillings and<lb></lb>
Six pence One Waistcoat and One Shirt of Check Linnen and which Shirt is<lb></lb>
now produced which he had on Says Thirteen Shillings and six pence of the<lb></lb>
said Sum was taken out of his Informants pocket as he laid a sleep in<lb></lb>
bed on the night of the 27th. Instant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-3">Mary Beatley</rs>
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for herself saith out of Charity<lb></lb>
she agreed with her said Husband to permit the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-4">Robert Simpson</rs>
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to Clap<lb></lb>
on the Floor of the Bed Room in which she and her husband Slept That she<lb></lb>
awoke about the Hour of Four in the Morning of the 28th. and Missed<lb></lb>
her Pocket from under her Bed in which Pockets was a Box containing<lb></lb>
Six Guineas and One half Guinea in Gold and Nine Shillings and six<lb></lb>
pence in Silver that she awaked her said husband and told him her<lb></lb>
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money was gone and the Man meaning the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-5">Robert Simpson</rs>
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That she got up Struck a light and found the Shirt now produced gone<lb></lb>
and a Waistcoat the property of her said Husband That she was present<lb></lb>
at the taking of the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1618-6">Robert Simpson</rs>
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and Challenged him with having<lb></lb>
her said Husbands Shirt then or which Shirt is now produced<lb></lb>
Gawen Cron for himself saith the said Richard Beatly and his Wife went<lb></lb>
a Room in his house and about the Hour of One in the Morning of Wednesday<lb></lb>
the 28th: Instant he heard some person come down Stairs open the fore door of his<lb></lb>
said house and from Circumstances no person being missed who were in his house<lb></lb>
the Night before he believes the said Robert Simpsons to be the person who went<lb></lb>
out of his house as aforesaid</p>
<p n="1619">Taken and Sworn this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45029_date306">30th Sep 1785</rs>
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Before <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1619-1">John Staples</rs>
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<p n="1620"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1620-1">Peter Greene</rs>
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Beatly</rs>
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Mark</p>
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Beatley</rs>
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Mark</p>
<p n="1623"> <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45029_n1623-1">Gawen Cron</rs>
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