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The Information of <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n733-48">Nicholas Francis Beckmen</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n733-2">Thomas Crawley</rs>
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taken on Oath<lb></lb>
the <rs type="date" id="LMOBPS45032_date131">23d. day of May 1787</rs>
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before me one of his<lb></lb>
Majesty's <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ289">Justices of the Peace</rs>
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for the <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo777">County<lb></lb>
of Middlesex</rs>
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<p n="734">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n734-26">Nicholas Francis Backman</rs>
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on his<lb></lb>
Oath Saith That there hath been lately stolen from off<lb></lb>
his house and Premisses in <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo778">Fashion street</rs>
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a quantity<lb></lb>
of Gutter and other Lead to the amount in the whole of about<lb></lb>
One hundred weight his Property and that a quantity<lb></lb>
of lead now produced by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n734-2">John Law</rs>
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Tucker</rs>
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he verily believes to be his property he<lb></lb>
having compared the same to his Premisses from where<lb></lb>
the same was taken from</p>
<p n="735">N. F. Beckman</p>
<p n="736">This Informant <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n736-1">Thomas Crawley</rs>
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saith That he<lb></lb>
is a <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ290">Servant</rs>
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Mr. Beckman<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo780">Fashion street</rs>
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<rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo781">Spitalfields</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ291">Sugar Manufacturer</rs>
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and that on Tuesday<lb></lb>
morning the Twenty second day of May Instant<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
<lb></lb>
between two and three O'Clock the morning he then<lb></lb>
being in bed at his Masters house he was called to<lb></lb>
by <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n736-2">William Tucker</rs>
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his Fellow <rs type="occupation" id="LMOBPS45032_occ292">Servant</rs>
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who told<lb></lb>
him that a man was on the house he accordingly<lb></lb>
put on some of his Cloaths and they both opened<lb></lb>
the Bed room door which was nearly even to the<lb></lb>
Gutter on the house and there they saw <rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n736-3">John<lb></lb>
Leaper</rs>
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the Prisoner now under Examination<lb></lb>
on the Top of the Warehouse in the Gutter this<lb></lb>
Examinant than struck at him and told him he<lb></lb>
<gap reason="illegible"></gap>
him into Custody, the Prisoner then said<lb></lb>
Dam'n your Eyes you Begger you lie then this<lb></lb>
Informant Stuck him with a Stick he had in his<lb></lb>
hand on which the Prisoner fell down and rolled<lb></lb>
himself off the Premisses and this Informant followed<lb></lb>
him down, and others of his fellow Servants coming<lb></lb>
to his Assistance he was secured and delivered<lb></lb>
up to the Patrole of <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo782">Spitalfields</rs>
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who took him<lb></lb>
in the morning before the Magistrates at the Public<lb></lb>
office <rs type="placeName" id="LMOBPS45032_geo783">Shoreditch</rs>
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<p n="737">The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
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<rs type="persName" id="LMOBPS45032_n737-1">Thomas Crawley</rs>
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