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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n578-1">John Lambert</rs>
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Lodger at <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n578-41">David<lb></lb>
Corbetts</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo634">Whitechapel</rs>
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Edwards</rs>
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the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo635">Princes Square</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo636">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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and<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n578-4">William Bevan</rs>
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of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo638">Ratcliff Highway</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo639">St. George Middlesex</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45031_occ237">Plumber</rs>
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Taken this <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45031_date113">13th. day of January 1786</rs>
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before me<lb></lb>
One of his Majestys Justices of the peace in and for the<lb></lb>
said County</p>
<p n="579">Who being on their Oaths severally and respectively say and first the said<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n579-1">John Lambert</rs>
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for himself Saith that between the hours of five and six O Clock<lb></lb>
in the Afternoon of Wednesday the Eleventh of January Instant, as he was<lb></lb>
Standing the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo640">Denmark Street</rs>
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he saw the prisoner <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n579-2">James Davis</rs>
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<del>and</del>
<lb></lb>
a Stant Youth and a man about his own Size standing together hearing a<lb></lb>
Song at the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo641">Denmark Street</rs>
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aforesaid. That they soon after Seperated<lb></lb>
the prisoner and the man going along the Highway and the<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
Youth Crossing over<lb></lb>
the other side of the way, That having seen the same three Persons about half<lb></lb>
Past two O Clock the same Afternoon, and Entertaining a suspicion that they<lb></lb>
were upon no Good her Curiosity induced him to watch them. when he saw the<lb></lb>
prisoner and the man pass and repass the Shop of Informant Bevan four time<lb></lb>
That some short time after he saw the prisoner Davis and the man coming towards<lb></lb>
<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo642">Denmark Street</rs>
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and turned up the said Street. (Informant at that time being<lb></lb>
on the Apposite side of the said Street) and perceiving them Husting something<lb></lb>
between them he Crossed over the way towards them and when he came within<lb></lb>
a few yards of them the man ran away but on his going up to and laying<lb></lb>
hold of the prisoner Davis he dropt the piece of Lead now produced on the<lb></lb>
Ground and on his laying hold of hing he Offered him half a Guinea to let him as saying he might have Children of his Own And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n579-3">Thomas Edwards</rs>
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for himself Saith that as he was<lb></lb>
Crossing <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo643">Denmark Street</rs>
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at the time abovementioned he saw Information Lambert<lb></lb>
have hold of the prisoner Davis by the Collar and was Calling out for help<lb></lb>
at which time Informant ran towards them but before he got to them he saw<lb></lb>
the prisoner drop the piece of Lead now produced. That when he come up to<lb></lb>
them he heard the prisoner Davis Offer Informant Lambert<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
half a Guinea to let him go</p>
<p n="580">And the said <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n580-1">William Bevan</rs>
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for himself Saith that about Twenty<lb></lb>
Minutes part five on Wednesday Evening last he Missed the piece of Lead<lb></lb>
now produced and which had been then recently Stolen from his Shop<lb></lb>
in Consequence whereof he set out in order to see and Enquire if he could<lb></lb>
hear any thing of it and when he got to the Corner of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo644">Denmark Street</rs>
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he<lb></lb>
saw the prisoner in Custody of Informant Lambert and the Lead lying<lb></lb>
on the Ground which he took up and brought to the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45031_geo645">Public Office Shadwell</rs>
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<p n="581">Taken and Sworn the day and<lb></lb>
Year first above written before me<lb></lb>
P Greene}</p>
<p n="582">J Lambert<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n582-2">Thos Edwards</rs>
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<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45031_n582-3">Wm. Bevan</rs>
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